Clooney Claims Role as Peace Messenger

By Gina Telaroli
January 29, 2008
4 comments

I have to say that as each day goes by recently I love George Clooney more and more. His performance in Michael Clayton was one of the best this year (as was the film itself) and now he has been named a United Nations Messenger of Peace in honor of his humanitarian work.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the world body's peacekeeping efforts.Clooney is the ninth U.N. messenger -- people chosen from the fields of art, music, literature and sports who have agreed to help focus attention on the United Nations' work.U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Clooney would have a special emphasis on peacekeeping. She said he had been "recognized for focusing public attention on crucial international political and social issues."Clooney, who is currently in Sudan, will receive his designation on January 31 at U.N. headquarters. [Reuters]

To see Clooney in action watch the video diary from his trip to Sudan below and be sure to to learn how you can help Darfur yourself. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVlHsaq5yg[/youtube]Also because it is so good, the trailer to Michael Clayton (again):[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHckVQm4cW0[/youtube]

 

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I think the problems in Africa started when white man discovered a people who were very healthy and lived off the land. They had no need for the natural resources white man craved. We took the people, then we took the resources and I think we did a lot of interfering in their governments to make sure we got it all for very little (good for the shareholders). We owe it to them and to our survival as a species, to really study the problems, get together as a global community and tackle them. Money spent in the right places will help. When powerful men like George Clooney see a problem and want to help fix it, we all benefit. We can end poverty. We just need more people to see that it can be done. Lora
posted on Feb 1, 2008
Does anybody have a clue. Defar, Rwanda, and Africa itself, you could throw a trillion dollars at Africa and it would not make a difference. People just don't care for each other and life itself.... When people start caring about themselves and others then and only then will life get better. We as American can not change life there and we can not make things better becuase of the UN not wanting to interfer in the politics and policy of other countries. You change one government for another and things still do not change. Sending high profile people to bring awareness to America doesn't to it. This will not change conditions in Africa or anywhere else if people to do not start caring for themselves and other and valuing life.....
posted on Feb 1, 2008
Yes, 'eye candy' gets our attention - - that is why he is good for this DESPERATE ROLE and a cause NEED of ATTENTION! Somehow we have to see that we all can not sit by for 5 plus years and not require pressure on those countries that have influence on the Sudanese govt to insist on having change - Clooney stops just short of saying it out loud - but his ending lines silently said the unspeakable but that which has happened before - inihilation of people by a gov't militia! It is true that if we don't help 'all the way' then we will have contributed to the problem just as in Rwanda - when we, the US and UN, sat idle. Bless him to spend his time and money on a wise and compassionate purpose!
posted on Feb 1, 2008
Cudos to Clooney for having the guts to tell us what is really going on! If he wants women to support his peace project, let's all sign up! What a peaceful looking pacifist!! Lora
posted on Jan 29, 2008