Danny Glover
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- andy_0
man, what a humanitarian! glover is the man. and he was in the royal tenenbaums...which doesnt hurt.
- unfittoprint0
Celebrities joining a protest? the more the merrier. These 'Celebrities' profiling of protests seems to be a new US trend...
'Putting food on the table' and exercising dissent can go hand in hand. Trust me.
- soda0
if it draws more attention to whats going on over there I don't give a rats arse why they are doing it.
the truth is if you get a celeb at the front of a demo it gets media coverage.
Danny G is just using it to get more exposure on the crisis.
Fair play to him I reckon.
- sbowlin0
I hope they keep his liberal ass in jail
- Mimio0
Nice sbowlin,
What have you done lately to change the world for the better?
- sbowlin0
nothing today... oh wait, i kicked a homeless guy this morning.
- Point50
I would think that Glover isn't doing this for his own publicity, rather for the cause.; he's out there protesting and feeling the same way as Joe Somebody. And yes, probably the only reason this was publicized is because of Glover's status. I'm not a fan of Danny Glover, but at least he's out there trying to do more than 99% of this world is even willing to consider. But yeah, too bad he couldn't stop those Predators...
- ********0
So are we talking Africa here? If so it's a complicated mess, but it goes deep into Europa.
- ********0
These guys can show their support all they want and that's great, it really is. Does it solve anything? You have a huge land mass in Sudan, one of the biggest countries on the planet.
Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. Civil war for all but 10 years of this period (1972-82). The wars are rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese.
Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced. The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup. Some northern opposition parties have made common cause with the southern rebels and entered the war as a part of an anti-government alliance.
It's a tangled freakin' mess! So let's hear some ideas about what to do? Which power would you guys like to go in and take them over? UN?
- ********0
I cud do it. I'll need a crack team of 5 G.I's. A kung-fu expert, a computer expert, an explosives guy, a guy who's excellent at disguises, and someone who's hot with the ladies - that'd be me. Oh and Patrick Swayze.
- ********0
The more i hear frm kona, the more i'm convinced he's a bit of a meathead.
Here's everyone else talking about how we respect some celebrity getting out there and protesting about something good and what he believes in and getting arrested in the process, not afraid to put his name and career at risk (by being so obviously unpatriotic vis as vis cuba/iraq) - unlike some celebrities who endorse causes like fashion statements (don't wear fur!). And there's kona with his"this aint fair! He's only getting recognised for it cos he's famous!"
well duh.
get with the programme son
- jevad0
I don;t see why the UN haven't done anything yet
- ********0
It's a sad situation and the UN are bunch of divesity committee muppets.
- jevad0
Jaz 1 UN 0
- unfittoprint0
I know a lot of people that worked in East Timor, Mozambique and Angola with the UN and MSF [Medecins sans frontiers], they've done a great job, and let me tell: it's a miracle what they have achieved there with such a few resources.
The US bias towards the UN seems like something coming out of XFiles, Blue Helmets invading your country... geeez... Even when they're responsible for 54% of the UN debt?
- lowimpakt0
It's a tangled freakin' mess! So let's hear some ideas about what to do? Which power would you guys like to go in and take them over? UN?
JazX
(aug 26 04, 14:18)
--------------------------------I would like to see the new African Union or whatever it is intervene in a peace enforcing capacity. Using the same methods used in places like Timor Leste etc.
re. the UN. The security council needs to be democratised and the control of the six permenant member needs to re-evaluated.
- chossy0
'Lethal weapon star' they should have said predator two star it would have sounded better :|
- ********0
i respect lowimpakt a lot
- ********0
I'm not saying all representatives of the UN are Muppets, no. I was in the US Peace Corps and I can say that a lot of the US' Foreign Policies are whacked but that doesn't mean the US as a whole is bad.
They spoke of some Union long ago, but the corruption is high and you give someone money that has never had it and they DON'T like to let it go in any f*cking language. It's universal.
- ********0
I've also had Blue Helmet friends and they have been both good and bad, many leaving babies behind, popularly known as UNTAG babies in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola. You can always pick them out. Big group of black kids and one mixed kid. lol ;)