Although they might be more 'community organizers' than 'progressive activists'. Matt Damon maybe? (Taking your link, though, maybe he wouldn't count, since I don't know that he 'abandoned' his entertainment career.

What about Dylan Ratigan? He was an MSNBC host type who suddenly disappeared and got involved in some sort of sustainable farming with veterans thing, I think.

Dylan Ratigan. Thank you!

But I am not famous or anything.
It's also my first feature length film.
All I've done was commercials before.

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we had a mutual friend and I met him a few times. I'm not sure if he and the mutual friend still speak, so it could be tricky.

Darryl Hannah - for her participation in protests against Keystone Pipeline...
Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk) - for his activism against fracking.
Ashley Judd - for her activism against mountain top coal mining amongst other things. She SHOULD have run against the Turtle!
Emma Watson - for standing up to Turkish politicians who feel that Turkish women shouldn't laugh out loud.
Olivia Wilde - did a nice moveon ad in last election...

Olivia Wilde. Thank you.

Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch was her uncle. Pretty safe to say she had her politics before she had her career.

then I must be.... oh, I'm not going to think about it.

Angelina Jolie is an internationally recognized activist for the UN on children's issues. She's just been named to an even bigger post within the UNCHR


http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c56.html

... who thankfully hasn't had his right wing BS wear off on her at all. It's a shame she can't have a better family to be closer to in that regard! I would have thought that being in "Coming Home" would have had Jon Voight evolve in to a decent citizen as well, but no...

of deevolution.

Also, for the animals, Tippi Hedren.

is a great one. Audrey is no longer with us, so that would be hard to schedule an interview.

Jogs my memory that Bardot also became an animal activist.

Yes, I know she is no longer with us. An interview with her would have been so very, very cool.


Thinking outside the box, and now knowing they need to be alive for interviews... Eminem (he's done a ton for the city of Detroit) and Uncle Kracker (for the same reasons). (He's also a really nice guy I used to know before he was "Uncle Kracker)

Thank you. Sorry about the confusion about how we want to profile them. Have to look up Uncle Kracker. Interested.

... with songs like "Union Town"

He's perfect! He's on the list now.

Like most of the others named, they didn't quit their day jobs but were progressive activists while pursuing their entertainment careers. Newman was on Nixon's enemies list early on.

I met Sheen while volunteering on a homeless project in D.C. with the late Mitch Snyder a long time ago (Sheen was a big supporter of Snyder and D.C.'s Community for Creative Non-Violence) and met Newman while volunteering for Kerry in Ohio (Newman was a 'Veteran for Kerry' in the '04 campaign).

Oops, left out Ed Asner, who is still active. Naturally, I met him, too, lol! At an antiwar protest in the San Fernando Valley.

offhand if there's a way to contact either other than through their agent?

Any groups that they're board members of (or something like that) who could be contacted? Agents will ignore it because of the political element, but other organizations will take it seriously for the cause.

He started out in show biz on SNL. Now he's a progressive leader in the community who plans on running for congress next year.

Thanks!

he deserves a lot more credit than he's gotten.

Most of Hollywood as well.

Public education activist: http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2004/apr04/issue/car_nixon.html

thank you.

He stayed in the arts but he's been a champion for people with disabilities, both mental and physical.

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of America (PDA). Mimi's been on Thom Hartmann's program in the last few years.

-Bianca Jagger; Elizabeth Taylor for AIDS awareness & treatment; Betty Ford for breast cancer awareness (Betty was a dancer, a darn good one when younger).

-Darryl Hannah actress, environmental activism against Keystone XL Pipeline.

-Susan Sarandon, actress, longtime activist

-Alfre Woodard, actress, longtime activist for Haiti, South Africa

-Jennifer Garner, actress, activist for early childhood education (wife of Ben Affleck)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Garner

... in San Diego many years back when we had problems with voting issues replacing Duke Cunningham many years back.

Talked with her later then and found out that we shared birthdays as well...

She's a great person as well as an activist!

Haven't been to San Diego in years, must return to see friends there-

at events for my former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey. Down to earth, very nice.

Walks the walk!!! True progressive hard-worker!

This guy was a comedian who was squeezed out of performing because of his progressive ideas, and then started a powerful political party in Italy. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/06/italians-beppe-grillo-five-star-movement

for better or worse

Human rights, the poor and homeless, children's health organizations.

Most of my memories of entertainers that became a progressive leader come from the 1970s.

When I think of the phrase "put your money where your mouth is" I think of Holly Near.

Another singer in that category is Barbara Dane.

The actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were very involved in the anti-war movement in the 1970s, including starring in (and helping to fund) the FTA tour and subsequent movie.

Liked him in that too. He really hasn't lost any of his inner self either, even in the newer Hunger Games movies too. I think he really shows where we as society are headed where if the 1% don't ever feel the need to give in, a lot of violence may be heading their way at some point that will be equal or more so than the the abuse that class has handed the rest of us these days. I think the Hunger Games films really captures the frustrated sentiments of many of us today.

He's the best example I know of.

they walk the walk .