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George Clooney and Sharon Stone
Long time friends, George Clooney and Sharon Stone intend to organize a protest against severing Kosovo province from Serbia

This George Gets it Right: Clooney to Organize Protest Against Unilateral Declaration of Kosovo Independence

Famous Hollywood actor, activist and campaigner George Clooney in a statement to the Frankfurt daily News announced he intends to organize a protest with his colleagues against the unilateral declaration of independence of Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.

“With my coworker and friend Sharon Stone and her childhood friends of Serbian ancestry, I'll soon organize a protest against the attempts to grant independence to Kosovo,” the popular American actor said.

Clooney, who was among the first to support the Hollywood writers' protest and also backed the boycott of the Golden Globe awards ceremony, is well known as a fierce campaigner against any kind of injustice.

“I strive to use my popularity to help the mankind, to contribute to solving the number of problems afflicting today's world,” he said.

The New UN Messenger of Peace

George Clooney is a co-founder of Not on Our Watch, a humanitarian organization that focuses global attention on the plight of Darfur's people. The organization has raised more than $9.3 million for humanitarian efforts in the region.

The 46-year-old actor has been campaigning for an end to the 4 1/2-year war in Darfur and for humanitarian aid for the millions caught up in the conflict.

According to the AP, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated George Clooney as a U.N. "messenger of peace" Friday, January 18, 2008. He will become the ninth U.N. peace envoy.

While many U.N. agencies have goodwill ambassadors to promote activities ranging from helping children and refugees to promoting human rights, "messengers of peace" are selected by the secretary-general to promote the broader work of the United Nations.

U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Clooney was recognized "for focusing public attention on crucial international political and social issues."

As a messenger of peace, he will have "a special focus on United Nations peacekeeping," Montas said.

Clooney will receive his designation at U.N. headquarters Jan. 31. He will also attend a meeting of countries that contribute troops to the 17 U.N. peacekeeping missions in countries from the Mideast and Africa to Haiti, Afghanistan and East Timor.

P.S. News as it was reported on Serbian TV (RTS) available on YouTube, thanks to our Dutch friend, JJ van Kempen.

P.P.S. Additional info over at SerbBlog: Ziveli Djordje & Sharon!

Comments

TO JE DIVNO!!! bravo majstore! finally a hollywood person who isnt playing in a movie that depicts serbs as subhuman monsters!. Sharon stone you have my respect. george cloony you also have my respect. too bad we cant get james belushi to help you. and owen wilson (behind enemy lines). now that would be awsome!. ZIVELA SRBIJA!
КОСОВО МЕТОХИЈА ЈЕ СРБИЈА УВЕК.

Even 'stoned' one can appear sympathetic. :o)
Good story!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yLnD8wIVdqg
JJ

Belushi is originaly 'Berisha",he's an albanian...Don't think he'll help Clooney..
All respect for Clooney and Sharon.

a friendship with a Serb is the genesis of this effort. How beautiful.

I never cared for Clooney. He seems to be a bit out there when it comes to politics. This time he has it right and it looks like he's got it right in Darfur as well. I'll have to reconsider my opinion of him.

Great job, JJ, thank you! (your link added in the p.s. of the entry :-))

Belushi is albanian muslim. I believe he strongly favors Kosovo amputation and re attachment to greater albania.

Sharon Stone and George Clooney are the best proof that beauty doesn't have to be only skin-deep. I always thought Sharon Stone is not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, but also one of the most intelligent ones in Hollywood. To act as brilliantly as she does, one has to have both heart and soul and the ability to quickly grasp more than most.

Having support of the two of the most universally popular people in the world, who also happen to be among the most beautiful is absolutely fantastic!

Thank you and may God bless you Sharon and George - na mnogaja ljeta!

Sorry folks the jim belushi comment was sarcasm. i know where he stands on kosovo. Lazar you have a really cool name. ;D
SA VEROM U BOGA-SLOBODA ILI SMRT.

Alabanian Stars: James Belushi ( Actor ) Eeliza dushku (Actor) Avni Abazi - actor/film producer Agim Coma - Actor Kara DioGuardi - songwrighter Stan Dragoti- Film director, Producer, Artist Regis Philbin - TV-show host (Albanian mother) Masiela Lusha - Actress/Poet????

Excellent news! Hopefully, the momentum will increase among the acting community and people will pressure their leaders to say NO to Hashish Thaci's "Kosova"!

A bre, Belushi is Albanian Orthodox. His surname could very well be of Aromanian (Vlah) origin. By the way, Albania's national anthem is a rip-off of a traditional Romanian wedding march from Serbia's Banat region. The Shiptar version is played sloooooower. Infer what you will.

George Clooney has my utmost respect, i hope he can reach people in the west who are blinded by the constant propaganda they hear from their t.v sets and more sadly their leaders.

My family are Serbian but i grew up in the UK where there are, as im sure in every country, so many people who are politically unaware and belive what they hear on the news is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but!! hope fully george can make them think!!

Great Blog by the way i hope more people have the good fortune to stumble across it!!!

The SerbBlog (another wonderful place! thanks, David ;-)), has carried a story with additional commentary and under the best title thus far: Ziveli Djordje and Sharon! George Clooney was born on Djurdjevdan (St. George's day, Patron Saint and Slava of many Serbian households), no wonder he's such a brave soldier against injustice and evil in this world.

SerbBlog entry excerpt:

"As you already probably know, George had also been a great friend to our beloved Milo Radulovich, with whom he worked on the film, "Goodnight & Good Luck". George kept up on Milo's progress after a stroke last year and I saw the beautiful flowers he sent Milo when Milo was convalescing. Kosovo had also been a great tragedy that had weighed on Milo's mind, until his death several months ago, and it was a concern that I cannot imagine that he hadn't shared with George.

"Sharon Stone was born and raised in Pennsylvania, apparently with some Serbian-American friends. So many Serbs had immigrated to PA to work in the mines and the mills that the state is loaded with their descendants.

"Well, they say that you never know who your real friends are until you are down, and then sometimes love & support for you comes from most surprising corners! All I can say is, "George and Sharon, we love you even more! Zivili George and Sharon!"

belushi is actually orthodox...

Svetlana,

I haven't been this happy since my wedding day! I was dancing around my living room after I read this story on your blog!

Milo Radulovich subscribed to my blog until his stroke six months ago. And before I had the blog, he was on my email list for years. Every time I wrote about Kosovo, I'd get an email back from Milo saying things like, "my dear Melana, this is the complete truth" or "Please keep telling the world, some one some day will listen."

If Milo did have anything to do with George Clooney coming out for Serbs in Kosovo, then I know Milo will be dancing in Heaven, too!

Great story, Svetlana!

Melana,

it is really wonderful news (at long last!) and thank you for additional info and a deeply moving story about Milo, along with so many other uplifting, intelligent, heartfelt articles! Milo was right: everything matters and every bit helps! May God grant him eternal peace and joy on His right hand side!

ALRIGHT, people, we got it that Belushi is Albanian Orthodox, enough already!

Belushi is not the subject here and, besides, whatever he is, he's as dumb as a doorknob to support KLA cutthroats who were killing their own people and treating them worse than dirt, as a cannon fodder for their own filthy schemes.

Izvini svetlana. I meant it sacasticly. didnt mean to stir anything up.

No need for apologies, BeliOrao. I was just wandering if every next person, without reading other comments, will write to say Belushi is Orthodox - we got it after the first correction.

Nothing stirred (or shaken), not to worry :-))

Well this is great news. I'm so happy that they haven't got their heads in the sand, unlike Nicole Kidman.

Thank you George and Sharon! Much respect!!
You know injustice when you see it.

KOSOVO JE SRBIJA
NIKAD AUTONOMIJA!!

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With so many people with influence backing the Albanians, it is refreshing to see that some have not been brainwashed by all the propaganda against the Serbs. George and Sharon have a strong voice and I hope more strong voices join them to silence the ones who don't speak the truth.

Even Jean Reno was on Serbs side when it was the Kosovo-war.

Go Clooney, Reno and Stone!

Diana A.

Could you provide me with a link showing Jean Reno's support? So I can verify that.

long live: nikita mihalkov, peter hanke, cloony, gay from antalia, one lusatian serb and all you people!

Kosovo is Serbian!!! Kosovo je Srpsko!

Don't let the albanians form a muslim state in Europe!!!!

We thank Clooney, Stone and Reno for the support!!

Diana A. you should add Pele & Maradona. During the bombing both of them were opposed to bombing.

The most pretty and handsome American stars... THANK YOU CLOONEY AND SHARON :-) I liked them before, I like them now more :-) They are proof that they are good people and don't care for how much $$$ they can get for some support. Albanians pay the fake support of some Americans and those two great people do it for love to Stone's Serbian friends. She just found them as a good friends. Madeline Albright was saved by Serbs during WW2 as she lived here coz her dad was Czech Ambassador ( they are Czech Jewish ), but she was very hungry for Albanian $$$ and supported NATO bombing of Serbia 1999. Freak! To remind you that there are/were many famous American Serbs so I hope that in memory to dead ones many will support Serbia and that still living will join this protest. The list of famous American SERBS is long... Nikola Tesla, Karl Malden, Brad Dexter, Rod Blagojevic, George Vojinovic, Weird Al Yankovic, Alex from Rush, Alexandra Sasha,Mihajlo Pupin who was a great scientist but also US President advisor!!! and many, many others... look at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Serbs Don't forget Serbioan NBA stars like Vlade Divac and Pedja Stojakovic...
Also I do hope in a support of BIG fan of SERBS, mr Robert De Niro who sit in Djokovic's box in US open, then of Monika Selesh, born in Serbia, maybe of Brad Pitt who acted in one Serbian movie in 1990ies filmed in Budva, then a friend od Divac and a man who opened Serbian FEST - film festival in Belgrade, Jack Nickolson...
WWW.SAVEKOSOVO.ORG !!!
People don't forget that Kosovo and Metohija is the place with the most Christian objects per km2... Serbs had built over 1300 medieval monasteries there... thou 200 of them Albanians totally or partly demolished in period 1998-2004!!! Save many monasteries of UNESCO world's heritage list!!!!

cccc, from uk

I always loved both of these people, and now I love them even more! Svaki im cast! Finally some Hollywood types that have a brain, and know something about right and wrong. As for James Belushi, just to clear the air, I saw a video recently where our old pal Richark Holbrooke attended a Shiptar fundraiser, and Belushi was on a giant screen on a live video feed yapping about the "poor Albanians of Kosovo" and how they needed independence. So don't count on any support from that Albanian moron!

At first, I was shocked when I read the news on serbiancafe.com, not for Sharon, as I do see her as a very intelligent person and I know she's been active in other causes - but for George. Personally, I never cared for him much but this is awesome. From now on, he has my respect, regardles of what happens with the whole thing.

I just wanna leave you with this wonderful song, get goosebumps everytime I hear it :) Enjoy & ljubim vas sve :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU8Z25Ep1jo

Dont trust wikipedia. http://davidbettino.blogspot.com/2006/09/following-is-article-i-posted-on.html
check out this link is is from here on this blog

Well, I can say I'm surprised ! In positive way, of course.
Actually, i wanted to say something, more creative than "thanks" but now I'm speechless... I don't think this support will change anything, and future of our Kosovo is almost curtain, but it matters to Serbian people. So, in the name of all serbian citizens I say THANK YOU, FAMOUS PEOPLE.
I send u my regards from Belgrade !

Hvala svima !!! SAD TEK DOLAZI VREME MOBILIZACIJE - OSTAVITE RADOST KAD BUDE DONET KONACNI STATUS NASE POKRAJNE .

Vreme je za angazovanje, da nebi plakali, jeste lepo i da nam tesi srce u teskom trenutku , ali to treba da bude samo pocetak ... U svakom slucaju ta akcija nije finalnost sama po sebi. Tek je pocetak.

Zbog toga sto nam se pruza sansa za elan, svom snagom i svim sredsvima ukljucaj mo se u tu akciju koja se sprema. Publika moze biti velika poluga , ali ne zaboravimo da je na nase Kosovo i Metohiji prisutna ogromna ORUZANA SILA, i da treba puno puno puno napora da takva sila se povuce.

Zivela SRBIJA , JUSTICE & OUR FRIENDS !!!

Ive always love George Clooney and all the other actors against Kosovo independence. I never thought that the big stars actually supported the only and right cause. KOSOVO IS SERBIA !

George
have you ever seen the Greek Goalkeeper Nikopolidis
Thank you Sharon and George

God bless George, Sharon, Sean (Connery), Richard Geere and all normal and good ppl worldwide ... for the others let's pray.


What organization do we contact to thank these actors personally?
Please letme know. Thanks!
Mira

Thank you for your understanding and support! Please, stay with us. Zox

You adorable people, whose movies we watched all the time, thank you. At last, hopefully not too late, somebody decided to speak or at least ask the proper questions regarding independence of Kosovo, double standards, interests of new world rulers when they decide about something not happening in their country, huge amount of money circulating from and via Kosovo through various "interesting" business transactions.

On May 16, 1960, I was born on Kosovo. On September 1973, we had to flee from Kosovo, although at that time refuges were not officially recognized. Although Montenegrin by father's origin and Serbian by mother's, I'm living in country that becomes smaller and smaller. I am foreigner in Montenegro already, and for more than 10 years I am deprived to travel safely to Kosovo and my right to visit my birthplace or what was left of millennium cultural and spiritual heritage. Soon, among others, I will probably opt as "apatride", with de iure rights which de facto will remain dead letters on the paper till the end of my life.

If I may suggest Mr. Karl Malden (who belong to Sekulovic family) may be willing to give his support. Mr. Robert De Niro, used to have good personal experience with Serbia.

If there is any support we can give by way of providing useful info, or may be try to gather from this side of the planet in simultaneous protest let us know. If nothing could be good farewell party.

Good luck.