GEORGE CLOONEY - CLOONEY AND FATHER TRAVEL TO SUDAN

George Clooney has taken his social activism beyond movies like Good Night, and Good Luck and Syrianna  and has traveled with his father, TV newsman Nick Clooney, to Darfur in the Sudan, where a rebellion has reportedly claimed the lives of 180,000 and created 2 million refugees. The actor and his journalist father reportedly moved about incognito, along with cameraman Mike Herron, who captured scenes of the horrific conditions in Darfur. "This is an ongoing and terrible story that we were able to see up close," Nick Clooney told the Cincinnati Post. These folks are helpless out there. There's nobody between them and very bad people." Their trip was timed to draw attention to the "Rally to Stop Genocide" scheduled to take place next Sunday in Washington. The Clooneys have been booked on several TV talk shows to discuss their trip to the area.

26/04/2006