George and Amal Clooney give $1m to fight US hatred groups
George and Amal Clooney. PHOTO:FILE
LOS ANGELES: Actor George Clooney and his charitable counsel wife, Amal Clooney, have donated $1 million to a Southern Poverty Law Center, a US non-profit that monitors extremists and domestic hatred groups, in response to protests in Charlottesville, Virginia progressing this month.
An Aug 12 convene in a city organized by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists led to counter-protests and a genocide of a lady when a automobile plowed into a crowd.
The travel battles triggered a domestic predicament for President Donald Trump, who praised “very excellent people” on both sides of a fight. “What happened in Charlottesville, and what is function in communities opposite a country, final a common rendezvous to mount adult to hate,” a Clooneys pronounced in a corner statement.
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The concession comes from a Clooney Foundation for Justice, that a integrate determined in 2016 to foster probity in classrooms and courtrooms around a world.
Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen thanked a Clooneys for “standing with us during this vicious impulse in a country’s quarrel opposite hate.”
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