George Clooney and his wife Amal are known for their social commitment. With its donation, the celebrity Couple wants to support the fight against racism in the United States. Trigger for the riots in Charlottesville.
“What is happening in Charlottesville and other communities in our country, our common commitment to stand against hatred,” wrote the Hollywood Star and human rights lawyer, in a statement. The donation went to the civil rights organisation “the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the observed according to its own figures, more than 1600 of racist and extremist groups in the United States and the information collected to the judiciary and the media. Was settled the payment via the “Foundation for justice”, who founded the Clooney 2016, and the campaigning for Syrian war refugees.
Further Donations
The Couple follows the example of other Celebrity in the United States, which donated last also to organisations in the fight against the spread of racism. Recently, the U.S. media entrepreneur James Murdoch had announced that he and his wife would.a Million dollars to the “Anti-Defamation League” donations, one of the oldest organizations in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism
The onslaught of the ultra-right in Charlottesville escalated into violence
In Charlottesville in the US state of Virginia, there had been in the middle of August a parade of hundreds of white racists and right-wing extremists. In the clashes between Ultra-nationalists and counter-protesters, a woman was killed when a 20-year-old neo-Nazi in his car, apparently deliberately, into a group of opponents of the rally controlled.
President Trump avoided in the course of his Remarks to Charlottesville a clear blaming of the right-wing protesters, and triggered a worldwide wave of indignation.
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