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Glover offer diversity perspective berkeleybeacon.com, Massachusetts By Dion Lim Published: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Media Credit: Cait Doyle Actor and activist Danny Glover came to Emerson on Tuesday to launch a discussion series. Fifteen minutes past six Tuesday night, everyone packed into the Cutler Majestic Theatre twitched in anticipation. Faculty, staff and Emerson students buzzed around the room holding plates of mushroom ravioli and appetizers. Two minutes later, a tall man towering over the crowd strode through the door of the reception, with all eyes on him. Stage left, enter Danny Glover. The Majestic's gold-gilded ceilings and velvet chairs...

Redford: Tyranny's useful idiot Posted: January 29, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Cuban dictator Fidel Castro wooed Robert Redford in Havana this week. It was hardly necessary. Redford has been doing Castro's bidding for years without being seduced by the tyrant of the Caribbean. "He came to me," Redford told Reuters. "He seemed to be in good health, good humor, good spirit." Castro wanted to congratulate Redford on his new film, "The Motorcycle Diaries," lionizing his old comrade-in-arms, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very...

DUVALL,SI -- SPIELBERG NO! By Don Feder . There aren’t many people in Hollywood with the guts to take on a heavyweight like Steven Spielberg. That makes Robert Duvall part of an elite – showbiz types with courage and a conscience. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, the man who played Lt. Col. Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now” gave the director of “Saving Pvt. Ryan” a little verbal napalm in the morning. Commenting on Spielberg’s 2002 trip to Cuba, Duvall innocently remarked: “Now I want to ask him (Spielberg) – and I know he’s going to get pissed off –...

CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan 09, 2004 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Actor Danny Glover was among a delegation of black American activists who began a nine-day visit to meet President Hugo Chavez and study the situation of blacks in Venezuela. Glover, 56, starred in the "Lethal Weapon" movies, "The Color Purple" and "Beloved," and recently appeared on Broadway in "Master Harold ... and the Boys," a revival of Athol Fugard's drama about a young white man's coming-of-age in 1950s South Africa. Andres Izarra, spokesman for the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, said the delegation also includes Patricia Ford of the Service Employees...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich will broadcast the first television commercials of his campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire next month, featuring actor Danny Glover. Nine ads will start running in the two states and in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4. All have the theme "Fear ends, hope begins" and follow Kucinich's anti-war rhetoric. Glover, whose film credits include "The Color Purple" and the "Lethal Weapon" series, does the voice-overs. In one ad appealing to young voters, Glover says: "If pre-emptive war continues to drive our foreign policy, if our volunteer troops are stretched thinner and thinner, you...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

Glover shares views on activism 9-4-03 By MATT WILLIAMS, Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO -- When Bush administration supporters denounced Hollywood actors who opposed a war in Iraq, Danny Glover didn't understand why his profession had anything to do with speaking his mind. "The fact is when you speak truth, you're always going to be attacked, whether you're an actor or whether you're a plumber," Glover said. "Without dissent, it's not really a democracy." Glover took that message to Bennett College on Wednesday, invoking the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to urge students to make activism part of...

Too Personal During the Porto Alegre World Social Forum, Hollywood star Danny Glover reacted with the brutality of a true communist zealot to the request for aid to a humanitarian cause that seemed not to fit into his political creed. Olavo de Carvalho A symptom of the moral shallowness of modern society is the almost papal authority that certain types of people enjoy in it: people for whom was reserved, in all other cultures without exception, the lowest place on the scale of public respectability. I refer, in particular, to the folks in show business: actors, actresses, rockers, anchormen, pop...

Celebrity Injustice Loudmouth moviemakers don’t know their audience. By Joel Engel Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover is the latest celebrity facing an icy brand of national pride that puts the pinch on public figures who question American foreign policy." So begins a recent Associated Press story about a "threatened boycott" of MCI for its pitchman employment of the antiwar actor who also voices support for Fidel Castro. According to Glover and two law professors quoted in the article, the outcry directed at outspoken celebrities like himself and Sean Penn indicates that the country is teetering on the precipice of McCarthyism....

5-25-03 - Hollywood-Hero Responds to Overreaching By Critics of Hollywood There has been much written and talked about on the web in the last week or so about Hollywood, boycotts and the state of free speech as it relates to the Hollywood community, our college campuses and the war in Iraq and against terrorism. HERO itself wrote the editorial below in response to a column in the Detroit News last week. However, we think it’s time for cooler heads to prevail and to take a step back for a second. HERO has on its home page a list of past...

FYI!!!! Castro spokesperson and all around anti American actor to surface at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (the NYSEC - why doesn't it surprise me?). this Weds. MAY 28 in NYC. See info below for exact location. Glover was just in Havana a couple of times ago with Harry Belofante where they denounced the US and signed some silly manifesto supporting Stalinist tyranny. http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/13/162103.shtml Click this link below to read article of Glover's Cuba activities and the the Cuban communist document published by Glover and Belofante that supports Fidel's May Day warning to the Cuban people against President...

Hollywood and the supposed boycotts that have pundits all up in arms By Lisa Sarrach – President  There have been scores of columns written in the past month or so by pundits and activists showing their collective disgust and outrage over the treatment of the Dixie Chicks and more recently Danny Glover, harkening back to the time of the McCarthy Era and blacklisting. Just last Thursday, the Detroit News’ own Laura Berman displayed her outrage at the new supposed Hollywood blacklist being compiled by “high-tech bullies” who want to “drum up ratings and drown out dissent”. Let’s take a walk back to...

WASHINGTON - "Lethal Weapon" actor Danny Glover is the latest celebrity facing an icy brand of national pride that puts the pinch on public figures who question American foreign policy. A threatened boycott seeks to force telecommunications company MCI to dump Glover as its pitchman because of views he expressed about Cuba and against the war. Similar frostiness extended to the Dixie Chicks and actors Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon when they came out against war in Iraq. Glover said this chill comes from right-wing factions that he denounced as self-appointed thought police. "It's basically this rabid nationalism...

No plans to dump Glover, MCI says Anti-American and pro-Fidel Castro political comments from the star of the "Lethal Weapon" movie series has caused a backlash from consumers who are calling for a boycott of the phone company for employing the actor as its spokesman. "MCI must fire Glover," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a Washington public-interest group calling for a boycott, said in a statement. "Any more than it should have a spokesman supporting Osama bin Laden, it can't have a spokesman supporting terrorist Castro." . . . Mr. Glover's spokeswoman said reports of Mr. Glover's possible...

Scarborough Country has spoken, and MCI had listened. It’s time for The Real Deal. Watch Joe Scarborough on “Scarborough Country,” 10 p.m. ET, weeknights on MSNBC TV. Repeats 1am and 4am SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, our Scarborough Country staff began investigating the extreme views of Hollywood movie star Danny Glover. Mr. Glover, who is know primarily for his “Lethal Weapon” films, has a history of making divisive political comments. He called the president of the United States a racist, he blamed American policy for the murderous acts of September 11th, and he signed a petition comparing American soldiers in the Gulf...

<p>Verizon Communications Inc., the country's largest local phone company, is waging an unprecedented campaign to derail MCI's pending emergence from bankruptcy and drive it instead into liquidation.</p> <p>Verizon's chances of succeeding with its highly unusual tactics are slim because 90% of the creditors of the company, formerly known as WorldCom Inc., have voiced support for the reorganization plan. That will weigh heavily with the bankruptcy judge overseeing the case. MCI's chairman and chief executive, Michael Capellas, has said he hopes the company will emerge from reorganization as early as September.</p>

When someone claims to defend human rights, you don’t expect him to defend tyrants. Actor and MCI spokesman Danny Glover has often blended art and political concern – against apartheid South Africa, for instance. He starred in “Mandela” (1987), “Bopha!” (1993) and “Boesman and Lena” (2000), all of which depict apartheid as a brutal system. The latter movie was based on the play by Athol Fugard, with whom Glover has had a long relationship. He said at the National Press Club on Nov. 12, 2002: In the mid-'70s, I began to perform the works of Athol Fugard, a white South...

Despite producing what MCI called "some of the highest likability scores for any of our spokespeople ever," Danny Glover may be dropped as a spokesman for the telephone company because of his recent political comments, according to published reports. Several conservative groups have called for a boycott against MCI because of Glover's recent attacks on President Bush and favorable comments about Fidel Castro. In defending its deal with Glover, MCI said in a statement: "We are currently reviewing our options for new product campaigns that are more in line with our corporate brand advertising work."

<p>A number of groups have threatened to boycott MCI (search) if it doesn't disconnect Glover from its current ad campaign, according to reports. The telephone giant said in a statement that it is reviewing the situation.</p> <p>"We chose Danny Glover because of his high consumer appeal and ratings. In fact, these ads have produced some of the highest likeability scores for any of our spokespeople ever," the statement read.</p>

To: onyx I just got a call from MSNBC they want me on at 10:30pm EST tonite! Scarborough Country! Talking turkey over Danny Glover and MCI! 179 posted on 05/12/2003 12:20 PM PDT by jonalvy44