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Angelina True to The Cause Of Refugees
Filed under: Angelina Jolie > Inspiration
This weekend, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation sponsored a symposium on international law and justice at the Council on Foreign Relations headquarters in New York.
The symposium featured a discussion by foreign policy experts on the pursuit of justice (courts, diplomacy, and military options) and how it all plays into the international peace process. How to approach Darfur and the US's role in the International Criminal Court were key topics of discussion.
As y'all know, Angelina Jolie has visited a ton of war-torn countries around the world and on Friday she spoke passionately on behalf of the victims she's met.
Says the mother of six:
"I've seen refugees return to live among the same people who attacked them. They are returning to the same lawlessness that sent them running in the first place. I've seen aid workers tear up as they put ladies on a bus and say, 'I don't know what we're sending them back to… I don't know if the ICC is the answer. And I don't know what type of court is, or what it would need to be to make all of us agree and make it strong enough. But I do know this: No mother who had her children killed in front of her, no young girl sold into slavery, no boy kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier and no young girl like the 3-year-old I met in Sierra Leone, who had her limbs cut off, should be expected to simply forget. No one should have to choose between peace and justice."
Earlier in the week, Angelina joined Microsoft and the nation's top law firms to launch KIND, an initiative to provide legal counsel to immigrant childred who enter the U.S. without an adult.
Santa Angelina can talk the talk and walks the walk!
[Image via AP Photo.]
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wow…she really is nice isnt she.
Unfortunately for the people living there, there s no OIL in Darfur…..otherwise the USA would already have attacked it to "free" the people and bring them democracy…or so….
looking good isnt she
Leading by example is so sexy.
Even without makeup she looks fabulous!! Hate her as much as you like Maniston fans, but you can't deny the good she is doing!!
I asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow…what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and rake my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use towards food and a new house.'
The little girl thought that over for a few seconds, and then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work and you can just pay him the $50?'
I said, 'Welcome to The Republican Party!"
The Big R that has been lost R_E_S_P_O_N_S_I_B_L_I_T_Y
What have you done to deserve to live in the greatest nation in the World ?? Why do we owe you a living ???
She looks like fucking Sarah Palin right here. I guess her team of makeup artists were on vacation.
WTF BRANGELINA????? HOW MANY KIDS IN THE COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN GO HUNGRY EVERYDAY??? WHY DON'T YOU PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AND HELP OUT IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY???? OR WOULD YOU GET LESS PUBLICITY????
YES!!!! I AM SO PROUD OF THE FIST 8 COMMENTS, FOR ACTUALLY NOT TALKING SHIT ABOUT ANGELINA
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ANGELINA IS DA SHIZ
Yes Perez but the Haters will be out in full force, even though they don't donate a dime to charity, never mind spend any of their time helping those less fortunate.
SHE IS TRULY AS BEAUTIFUL ON THE BEAUTIFUL AS SHE IS ON THE OUTSIDE..SHE INPSIRES ME !!
SHE IS TRULY AS BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE AS SHE IS ON THE OUTSIDE..SHE INPSIRES ME !!
A bunch of blah blah blah blah blah…. The money spent to get all those people to the "meeting" could have built 10 houses some of the places they are sobbing about. "The symposium featured a discussion by foreign policy experts on the pursuit of justice (courts, diplomacy, and military options) and how it all plays into the international peace process." and what exactly does this accomplish? Everyone there is well aware of the problem.
Just so much bureaucracy and grandstanding its ridiculous.
I don't like her new dark hair.
I think the brown looked much better.
when was the last time she took all her adopted kids, to their original homelands?….
yeah didnt she say they'd always be going back so they wouldn't forget where they come from…
OH AND MARILOW! I donate to at least 3 major charities every 2 weeks out of my paycheck. Regular people donate too. Do YOU donate???
Angelina is a joke and has some real psychological issues that should be addressed. I'm waiting for CPS to arrive, but of course she'll be able to get about 4 more kids before that happens.
Re: Joce –
I think you are just a bitter old hag with nothing better to do with your time but act like a child talking about celebs..haha
Damn that Angie!!!!
The amount of charity that she does in a day is the amount of charity I've done my whole life!!!
I needs to step my game up!!! LOL
I'm really glad that Angelina Jolie uses her influence to further causes like this.
It kind of makes me hopeful.
oh fuck off, ange
And charity starts at home..take care of America's kids,homeless
Re: matty is never first –
That is the most ignorant thing I've read all day. You do know the majority of homeless are mentally unstable and are not equipped to work?
Please do a little research before you start spouting your tired right wing rhetoric.
Anyone else think her image is at the forefront of her mind when she does all this charity. At least Maniston doesn't go on and on and on and on and on about the good stuff she does.
Re: marilow – Using the word "haters" to describe people who don't share in your adoration of this two-faced, scheming, lying moron is such a cliche way to admit you are intolerant of other people's opinions. It's curious how Angelina Jolie is "true to refugees" and children about the same time her movie comes out, yes? The reality here is that she is no more qualified to be an authority on Darfur than anyone else who has a subscription to Time magazine and she deserves no adulation for using charitable causes to promote her own self-image. She's disgusting.
Great cause, but when I see her picture, I can't figure out where she puts her horns???
Re: matty is never first – That is funny!
It's great that she's doing all of these good things, but why am I so sick of her?
Re: rebjayal – What good stuff does Maniston do?
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In my opinion Angelina is drawn to refugees and homeless people that have suffered because these people are deeply scarred and disturbed. Angelina is one of them because she too is disturbed.
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She earned an Academy Award for her portrayal of a disturbed girl, Lisa in "Girl Interrupted" and look for another outstanding performance in Changling" where Angelina once again goes to the psyche ward.
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I think Angelina is fascinating. She has tattoos, likes knives, kinky sex toys, and who can figure her out? When she is in public, is she acting or is she for real?
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Ang needs to move overseas and stay there ,it's evident she has no feelings for her own country……she doesn't adopt from here, you hear nothing from her fish lips about the poor, hungry and all over here……….and whoever said that about each time she has a movie coming out, she does something like this for publicity, you're right………Sure I feel sorry for the people over there, but ya know what? That part of the world is always fighting and you can give, give and give and it won't change a thing.
beautiful inside and out.
Re: Evil Woman 2 – So how many children have you adopted?– in the country you live or anywhere where children are starving.
her humanitarian work is the real deal. She has been doing it for 7 years and Brad pitt has only been involved for however long he's known Angelina.
Angelina = the real deal
Brad and MAdonna = fake as hell
LETS HOPE THE NEW PRESIDENT IS AS INTERESTED AS ANGIE.
When it's 'fashionable' and 'cool' to adopt from the US I'm sure she'll be right in there. She's totally shallow.
Symposiums, summits, talks.
Too much talk and not enough action.
Only need to visit the desparately poor nations of this world and those ravaged by war to witness first had that all this hot air moving around at symposiums doesn't make a damn difference.
This is just a photo opportunity for her…
Perez how can you like this bitch? Please stop praising her! Both are liars! She said many times that she would never be with a married man. He said it happened after Jen. Now she said the truth. She confessed that she is a homewrecker. If you look back in her life you will discover that it was not the first time. She did the same with Billy Bob and his ex at that time. But they are already paying for what they did. If you look him you will see that he is not the good-looking man he used to be. She is so thin that you think she will split in two. I have been reading your comments in this site and it seams that you are a good person. Please put your head in the pillow at night and think about what you have been writing about this case. Make justice and do not comply with such abominate conduct.
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She's no saint! All of this charity stint are all made up! There's no truth to everything she says. She is just a second rate trying hard whore, there is no escaping all the things she'd done to wreck a marriage! I wish she rot in hell.
Re: matty is never first –
Only a republican would do something for someone else expecting something back in return. why can't anyone give to some one less fortunate only because they feel it in their heart? and…how many republicans would hire a homeless hungry person to pull weeds and rake their yard? How many?
KIND is a crock of shit. put the fucking illegals back on their boat and SEND THEM BACK!! THEY ARE HERE I-L-L-E-G-A-L-L-Y!!!!!!! does no one fucking understand that?? they are breaking the law and putting strain on our country when it is already weak. that whore angelina needs to stick to collecting babies and stealing married men.
Re: Anaksunamun –
just because Brad Pitt picked Angelina Jolie over Jennifer Anniston it does not make her a bitch, he actually saw the good in her. And maybe he was sick and tired of being with a superficial bitch whose only goal in life was to keep making mediocre movies and going to Yoga! Angelina did not sleep with him whle he was marriedthere was not home to wreck. He has a home now
Re: kristiyeahyeahyeahstfu –
what an igonarant piece of shit you are hahahahahahahaha
I pitty you
Re: Liza Love –
the point is, you dumbshit, is that why should i work my ass off just to hand you my hard earned money so you can do nothing and sit on your ass all day? why dont you also work rather than collect welfare and social security. fucking liberal democrats are going to be the death of this country.
Re: kristiyeahyeahyeahstfu –
I work my ass off too bitch, I am doing to the the job of two other people who are not "illegal" but because they can not get their shit together they can not come to work every day but then they still work the system and get paid…. No matter what you say you,are still an ignorant, selfish, mean spirited person….these are kids we are talking about….children! children who never did anything to anyone
Saint Angelina - wow the woman has 6 kids and still finds the time to commit to so much charity work. Some of the comments about her are so ridiculous. I especially am puzzled at those who slag her for not doing more in the States - "why isn't she helping us here at home" kinda stuff. Wow - the U.S. is the most overindulged, overinflated and irresponsible country in the all of the developed nations. More than 50% of your population is overweight. You are now in a recession because you spent all your money on a war that no-one except George Bush wanted and now no-one wants - But you're STILL there!!!! If more big-mouthed American's did more to help their own instead of themselves maybe you wouldn't have caused the world to fall into an economic slump. Angelina raises issues on area's that are largely ignored by the "popular celebrities" who don't want to get their hands dirty handing out food packages in Dafur. She's done more for the world than any of us ever have or probably ever will. So to the haters - just fuck up and go somewhere else to spew your vile hatred.
Re: Mistress – That's the US government you dumb fuck, not the children, homeless, sick etc.
Why dosen't "St Angelina" and her boyfriend adopt "the 3 year old girl with her limbs cut off?
Re: urdumb – Exactly!
And then she went back to her $10 million, 180-room mansion in Germany full of servants and nannies. With all that room, you'd think Brad and Angie could spare a few bedrooms for the refugees to stay in but they're too busy filling them with their spawn and the dozens of Third World orphans they've been collecting.
I repeat! I love this women…I think she's turning me lesbian!…but I want to do Brad too much…damn he is HOT!….
I admire the Jolie Pitts more than anyone else in the biz.
i luv u angelina ur a true angel
Wow she does not look good in this picture…
Re: rebjayal – Read it again fuckwit - I just love you idiots who reply without even reading the post properly.
okay that's great and all but wtf what about americans?!?
there are so many kids here who need help! all these fucking celebrities helping other countries before their own. in case yall haven't noticed our country is going in the shitter. start rebuilding america and help americans before the other countries.