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Sean Penn, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx and Danny Glover are among the thousands of mourners expected to turn out for the funeral of executed former gang leader Stanley 'Tookie' Williams early next week.

SAN FRANCISCO — Actor Danny Glover wants to see Crip gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams live. At a packed Victoria Theatre in San Francisco, Glover said Sunday the work Williams has done behind bars is an "example that breathes life not only into gang members but into us." The event, a fund-raiser for the San Francisco Save Tookie Coalition, included a speech by Barbara Becnel, a co-author of Williams' children's books about the tragedy of gang life. The night ended with a screening of the movie "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," in which Jamie Foxx portrays Williams. Williams, a...

PRINCETON -- Movie star Danny Glover, known for his brutal gunplay in the Lethal Weapon movie series, last night called on the U.S. to spare the life of Osama bin Laden even if he’s provent guilty of terrorism beyond a reasonable doubt. As guest speaker at an anti-death penalty forum at Princeton University, Glover said America was the one to blame for bombing and terror around the world. "Yes -- Yes!" Glover said when asked if American forces should spare the Saudi terrorist's life. "When I say the death penalty is inhumane. I mean [it's inhumane] whether that person is ...

<p>More than 3,000 people rallied behind Rep. Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress to oppose a resolution granting President Bush authority to use force against terrorists.</p> <p>The crowd in downtown Oakland erupted in cheers Sunday when actor Danny Glover walked Mrs. Lee to the podium about two hours into the rally. Mr. Glover called Mrs. Lee a hero. Alice Walker, the writer, called her inspiring, the Associated Press reports.</p>

LETHAL LESSON DAVE SOMMERS, Staff Writer November 16, 2001 PRINCETON -- Movie star Danny Glover, known for his brutal gunplay in the Lethal Weapon movie series, last night called on the U.S. to spare the life of Osama bin Laden As guest speaker at an anti-death penalty forum at Princeton University, Glover said America was the one to blame for bombing and terror around the world. "Yes -- Yes!" Glover said when asked if American forces should spare the Saudi terrorist's life. "When I say the death penalty is inhumane. I mean [it's inhumane] whether that person is in a ...

American actor Danny Glover on Tuesday defended a new TV station financed by Venezuela's government as a way to bring Latin America together, denying claims by critics that it will be used to demonize the United States. The channel Telesur, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has promoted as an alternative to foreign media giants, began regular broadcasts Sunday and is transmitting news, documentaries and other programs to various Latin countries. "Certainly the television station itself is not a tool that would be used to demonize the north," said Glover, a member of the station's advisory board. "It is a tool...

A new TV station backed by Venezuela's government began transmitting Sunday in various countries across Latin America, carrying praise by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the American actor Danny Glover and others. The Telesur network, which organizers call a Latin alternative to large media outlets like CNN, was being seen in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba as well as Venezuela, Chavez said. "This is part of an awakening of our peoples," Chavez said by phone to a televised inaugural ceremony in Caracas. Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, called the channel a key step toward regional integration....

Author: Hollywood's Castro Collaborators Revealed What do Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover, Chevy Chase, Norman Mailer and Naomi Campbell have in common? They're all charter members of the Fidel Castro fan club. Appearing on the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday night, author Humberto Fontova detailed the Castro-loving proclivities of America's literati-glitterati class, as described in his new book, "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant." Fontova laid the groundwork for why the "Hollywood pinheads," as O'Reilly called them, think Castro is so great: because Castro is "the cool anti-American." And, as we all know, Hollywood is a firm protectorate of the 'blame America...

HAVANA -- About 200 intellectuals, activists and artists from Latin America and elsewhere issued a letter Monday urging the top United Nations human rights watchdog to side with Cuba in an expected battle over the communist country's rights record. A U.S.-backed resolution to condemn the island's record is usually presented at every spring meeting in Geneva of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which this year was to open Monday and run through April 22. No resolution targeting the island has emerged this year, but Cuba expects such a proposal will be presented and considered in mid-April. Last year's resolution passed...

For the past three years, an annual conference called the World Social Forum has been the biggest international gathering of radicals on earth, attended by all the leaders of the world left. Labor unions, Communist parties, non-governmental organizations, anti-globalization activists, anti-American 'peace' groups, multiple heads of state, and the representatives of armed guerilla insurgencies all gather yearly at Porto Alegre, Brazil, to make new connections and plan for the future. While the organizers of the World Social Forum claim the event is a "open meeting place" for those interested in building "a planetary society centered on the human person,"...

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"...