Posted on 02/20/2018 5:05:19 PM PST by Candor7
George Clooney continues his charitable giving– now half a million dollars to the March for Our Lives. He and wife Amal will make an appearance at the gun control rally. Clooney is an ardent supporter of civil rights in places like Sudan with the still-going Not On Our Watch (They are still giving hundreds of thousands of dollars there to protect the South Sudan). But this may signal a new political move by him by actual going to Washington DC on March 24t.
Oprah Winfrey has just tweeted that she will join the Clooneys in their donation.
Clooney– thanks to the sale of his Casamigas Tequila company for $1 billion– now has the money to put behind causes he and Amal believe in. So this is a big deal but not uncommon for an actor who is passionate about the right causes.They gave $1 million last year to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And they’ve said that in total they will donate $21 million to various causes.
George and Amal’s appearance at March for Our Lives will be key to this movement. He won’t be speaking, however: his rep says only “kids” will be speaking at this event, no adults.
Will Clooney run for president? Last fall when he was promoting “Suburbicon,” Clooney said this: “Would I like to be the next president? Oh, that sounds like fun. Can I just say that I’d like anybody to be the next president of the United States. Right away, please,” he joked.
Clooney, by the way, took in an Iraqi refugee last September in Kentucky. The refugee is now a student at the University of Chicago. Clooney said at the time: “He was on this bus to Mosul, and ISIS shot the two bus drivers and said, ‘Anybody who wants to go to college, we will shoot them,’ ” says Clooney. “He survived and came to America. He got through all the checks, and once he got through those, it was like, ‘Listen, we got your back. You want to get an education? You want to move your life forward? This is something that we can do.’ ”
Here’s the mission statement: March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar. In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short in Florida, politicians are telling us that now is not the time to talk about guns. March For Our Lives believes the time is now.
The March For Our Lives statement from George Clooney
“Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School.
Our family will be there on March 24 to stand side by side with this incredible generation of young people from all over the country, and in the name of our children Ella and Alexander, we’re donating 500,000 dollars to help pay for this groundbreaking event.
Our children’s lives depend on it.”
Overpaid and ancient.
Hey, I’ll put Trump and Dwayne Johnson, against Clooney and Oprah, any day of the week. Heck yes.
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Dwayne+Johnson&qpvt=dwayne+johnson&FORM=EWRE
For those who are unaware, he is political, he has been GOP, he is wildly popular (the highest paid actor now in the entire world, or at least was recently) He is interested. And interesting. More draw even, that Donald Trump.
Not to take anything away from Pence. But that combination will be unbeatable. Trump, and Johnson. Johnson is for those who are unaware, also incidentally half black.
Just like Obama.
Pay attention for the next election. I really think Trump and Johnson will be our ticket, and they will beat anyone challenging them.
Democrats considering yet another poofter? You would think they are bold enough by now to prop up one fully our of the closet/bathhouse.
A $1 billion tequila company? Is he that good of a businessman?! I've always thought he was a bit of a dope.
Clooneys donate $500,000 to March for Our Lives, will join students at DC rally
I imagine you’ll get fed a steady diet of the beautiful pair from now on until you get thoroughly sick and tired of them...
The SPLC?! Of course he did! The SPLC should be designated a terrorist organization.
So they are going to arm themselves?
It will be like watching you on Celebrity Apprentice.
His career is already in the can. His last two directorial efforts bombed and he hasn't had a commercial hit since the Oceans movies. Okay, a supporting role in Gravity and he was actually quite good.
These celeb types - Clooney, Winfrey being the two prime examples - are surrounded by sycophants who of course tell them how great they are and yes, run, you’d be a great senator / governor / president. But they have no idea of the rough and tumble of the twelve-to-eighteen month grind of a campaign.
Amal is a fairly common Arabic woman's name.
Early life and family[edit]
Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut, Lebanon. However, during the 1980s Lebanese Civil War, the Alamuddin family left Lebanon and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.[5] She was two years old at the time.[6] Her father, Ramzi Alam Uddin, from a Lebanese Druze family from Baakline (a village in the Chouf district),[6][7][8][9][10][11] received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut and was the owner of COMET travel agency, returned to Lebanon in 1991.[12][13] Her mother, Bariaa Miknass, from a family of Sunni Muslims[14][15] from Tripoli in Northern Lebanon...
There is always an excuse.
George, you ignorant sl*t, get rid of your armed guards, you sanctimonious hypocritical jerk!!!
At least Dwayne Johnson actually is good looking. Clooney, yuck.
I was under the impression Johnson was a lib. I would be impressed if he is not.
If Clooney can stay reasonable he appeals to a majority of those in America who really count, that is, who vote.
https://alert.americanewscentral.com/2018/02/20/school-likely-wont-next-target-not-hard-see-2/
Clooney and Oprah stealing the spot light from the kids.
How TOTALLY LEFTIST organized can they get?
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