Richard Branson has posted a new blog entry on his website saying that he will now be taking over fasting duties for Mia Farrow after doctors told her to stop immediately. The famous actress and activist has been fasting on only liquids in order to raise awareness for the horrible crisis unfolding in Darfur.
Said Branson, [...]
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“Strangely I am feeling fine. I realize we don’t need to eat every day. And we certainly don’t need 3 meals a day,” but that has changed overnight. She also stated that boredom has been a bigger problem for her than hunger: “I feel so well that I’m bored. I can’t really go out. I [...]
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As we mentioned earlier, Mia Farrow has embarked on a hunger strike as a way to help raise awareness for the situation in Darfur. Through Youtube, she’s been posting updates on her fast and reaching out to supporters to encourage President Obama to act in the region. Obviously, we all know the President has a [...]
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Mia Farrow is taking things to the next level — and perhaps a little too far — with a planned hunger strike next week as an “act of solidarity with the people of Darfur.” I only question the move because she’s 64-years-old — and a hunger strike can put your body through some serious hell. [...]
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As Ecorazzi previously reported, stars like Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean have come out in a big way to help victims of the recent storms in Haiti that killed at least 425 people, destroyed thousands of homes and razed 60 percent of the island’s agriculture.
Mia Farrow, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is the latest celeb to get [...]
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Well, you can’t say the guy didn’t try.
After writing personal letters and making impassioned pleas to the Chinese government to help stem the worsening crisis in China, director Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw as the artistic advisor to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Spielberg said of his decision:
“I find that my conscience will [...]
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This weekend, dozens of Cambodian police denied Mia Farrow and the members of Dream for Darfur-an American advocacy group- access to a Tuol Sleng prison, the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre during its genocidal rule in the 1970’s.
Farrow and the group had planned to light an Olympic-size torch as a form of protest to pressure China [...]
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