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Steven Spielberg Donates Money To Gay Activists
Moviemaker Steven Spielberg is following in the footsteps of Brad Pitt by donating $100,000 to a campaign to keep gay marriage legal in California. How great is that?! Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw donated the money to the anti-Proposition 8 campaign, which helps activists oppose a state vote to ban same-sex marriages.Activists Fight to Have Chimpanzee Declared Human
Animal rights activists in Vienna are fighting to have a 26-year-old chimpanzee named Matthew declared human.
36-year-old British teacher Paula Stibbe wants to be appointed Matthew’s legal guardian in case the animal shelter he lives in shuts down, however, under Austrian law, legal guardianship is limited to humans.
Matthew, along with another chimpanzee and a crocodile, is being cared for by an animal shelter that requires $8000 a month in donations.
Christina Ricci became an activist for rape victims
Christina Ricci was so disturbed by the marketing campaign for her movie Black Snake Moan, she became an activist for rape victims. The 28-year-old actress starred in the 2006 drama as Rae, a sexually abused girl desperate for male attention. But when she saw herself appearing on film posters posing seductively in a navel-bearing top and revealing shorts, the actress was prompted to step up her involvement in the Tori Amos-founded organization RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).Model, former Bond girl & genital mutilation activist found after missing
A former supermodel/Bond girl who had gone missing for three days has been found. Waris Dirie, 43, is a Somali-born model who rose to fame in 1987 playing a Bond girl in “The Living Daylights” and starring in several Chanel ads. In 1996 she released a book “Desert Flower” that described her own circumcision with a rusty razor blade and no anesthesia.
Statues Protest!
Activists place masks on Rome statues An environmental activist group has claimed responsibility for placing anti-pollution masks over the mouths of about 150 statues in Rome under cover of night. Activists with environmental group Terra! said the masks -- which were found Thursday morning on statues including the likenesses of Roman emperors near the Colosseum and magistrates surrounding Rome's Palace of Justice -- were "protesting together with activists" to raise awareness of carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, ANSA reported.Israel kills daughters of ‘friend’ doctor in Gaza
(the Israeli government says it's 'investigating' this 'incident' and might apologize...) Israel shells house of 55-year-old Palestinian gynecologist known by Israeli TV viewers. Kansas City Star GAZA CITY – The Palestinian doctor provided Israeli TV viewers with regular updates on Gaza fighting's human toll. But Friday's report was different — with sobs he told how his three daughters and a niece were killed by an Israeli shell.Both Sides Speak Out on Hayden Panettiere's Arrest Warrant
Neither side appears to be letting up in the Hayden Panettiere versus Japanese fisherman controversy that began last month, when the Heroes star participated with others in a confrontation with the fisherman during a dolphin hunt. The situation was exacerbated Thursday, when an arrest warrant was issued in Japan for Panettiere. Later that day, the actress-activist, 18, told Access Hollywood in a statement: "Obviously this issue has generated defensive behavior on the part of both the Japanese authorities and fishermen."Rise of conservative women
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/michele-bachmann-president-sarah-palin She is much more Religious Right then I like in Conservative politicians, but I still found her interesting. The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America Right-wing radicals are already pinning presidential ambitions on a mother-of-five from Minnesota who calls herself a 'fool for Christ' and condemns Obama as a socialist at the head of a gangster regime- Buzz up!
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Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin
When she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin reportedly said that even if her then-14-year-old daughter were raped, she would "choose life" and force her to bear a child. Comments like that that have endeared the fiery Alaskan politician to most pro-life voters, who lionized her for not aborting her Down's Syndrome baby. But Trig isn’t enough to protect Palin from a phalanx of anti-abortion activists who plan to protest her appearance on Thursday to promote her book in the conservative heartland of Indiana.Frm. Atty Gen. & the Light Side of Ft. Hood
Last week, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) came out in strong support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute the five 9/11 defendants in U.S. federal court and sharply criticized Republicans who were attacking the decision.
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