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Western nations should make reparations for enslaving and colonising Africans and finance a Marshall Plan-type fund for Africa, says US actor Danny Glover. "I believe in reparations for slavery and colonisation as well, in the shape of a Marshall Plan," Glover told the Associated Press on the sidelines of month-long celebrations in Ethiopia of the 60th anniversary of reggae legend Bob Marley who died in 1981. "Our basic attitude towards Africa is still one of the coloniser," said Glover, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the UN children's agency that has co-organised the celebrations with the Bob Marley Foundation. "The...

Los Angeles- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, author of SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America, announced today the start of The 'Black' List Campaign, a campaign to expose Hollywood’s most anti-American black entertainers who are viciously criticizing the U.S. war on terror and lying to black Americans. Celebrities on the list include: Spike Lee, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Belafonte, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Will Smith among others. Rev. Peterson said, “I’m sickened by black entertainers who drive $350,000 Bentleys and still cry ‘racism.’ Americans of all colors pay to see their movies, and they have the nerve to...

Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover was arrested on Wednesday outside the Sudan Embassy in Washington during a protest over Sudan's humanitarian crisis. Glover was speaking to a crowd who were calling for a peacekeeping force to stop violence in western Sudan. "We want an end to the hostility," said Glover. The actor was later charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, the US Secret Service said. One million people have fled attacks by pro-government Arab militias in Sudan. The United Nations has called the situation in Sudan's Dafur region the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. UN figures put the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actor Danny Glover was arrested on Wednesday on the steps of Sudan's embassy in Washington during a protest against the humanitarian crisis in the country's Darfur region. Before he was led away in handcuffs by the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service, Glover addressed a small crowd of protesters, calling for a peacekeeping force to stop the violence in western Sudan. "We want an end to the hostility," declared Glover, a star of the "Lethal Weapon" films. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Secret Service said. The Sudanese...

Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover has boycotted a cruise to Haiti that he helped to organise, over the ousting of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the US-backed interim government that replaced him. The American organisers of the cruise, commemorating Haiti’s 200th anniversary of independence, have cancelled most tours in the country, but Glover, who helped organise the seven-day event, pulled out of the trip altogether. The cruise, billed as “Cruising Into History”, is due to arrive in Haiti on Wednesday with about 500 Americans on board, but the trip has been confined to an isolated strip of beach after opposition from...

Quotes: A Nation ReactsFollowing are quotations on the news that former President Ronald Reagan has passed away. Actor Danny Glover: 'We all know Ronald Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration.People want to elevate him to some mythic level, they have their own reason for doing that.'

Actor Danny Glover: "We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that."

So, unfortunately, Ron Dog couldn't organize a counter protest to A.N.S.W.E.R.'s communist front anti-war rally today in downtown Los Angeles (yes ACLU, named after Angels of the Christian God). The ProtestWarriors were there, 3 strong, and two part time freeperettes. Obviously we were out-numbered. I think I got there first, as I walked around the starting point at Olympic and Broadway, I figured there would be some type of Conservative turnout. I asked an L.A.P.D. officer where the Conservatives, if any, would be staging. The officer answered that there was none scheduled or permitted, but he saw fit to give...

Q. You never stop. How long have you been an activist? A. All of my life. I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement. I was seven years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. From that point on, I followed the movement. I also followed it through my parents. They were postal employees, were very involved in restructuring their union after it was desegregated in 1948. It was a kind of empowerment that my parents embraced; the Civil Rights Movement was tangential to their own struggle. I was always privy to...

There are many things about liberals puzzling to conservatives. Abortion, homosexuality, gun control, high taxes – the things liberals hold dear conservatives find odd or even repugnant. But what is most puzzling about liberals is their undisguised love for tyrants, from brutish communist dictator Joseph Stalin a half-century ago to Fidel Castro, the murderous thug who has enslaved the Cuban people for the past 44 years. Myriad opinions are offered as to why this is, but perhaps the clue lies in Hollywood, where nearly everyone is left-leaning, often far left. It is said they are left-wing and "for the people"...

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...