Celebrity Upstanders

George Clooney (Gravity, The Descendants, The Ides of March, Up in the Air, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, ER)—an Academy award-nominated actor, producer and screenwriter—is one of Enough’s closest allies through the organizations he has launched with John Prendergast.  He is a founding board member of Not On Our Watch, and he also co-founded the Satellite Sentinel Project with Prendergast. Most recently, Clooney founded with Prendergast The Sentry, a new investigative initiative focused on dismantling the networks financing conflict and atrocities. In September 2016, Clooney joined Don Cheadle and Prendergast to present The Sentry first major investigative report at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC.  Afterwards Clooney, Cheadle and Prendergast met with President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Lew, and National Security Adviser Rice to advance Enough’s and The Sentry’s agenda.

Clooney narrated the HBO documentary on Darfur, Sand and Sorrow. During the last decade, Clooney and Prendergast have traveled to Sudan and South Sudan on numerous occasions, which they followed up by meetings with administration officials, members of Congress, and the press.  Together they have appeared on or written for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, CNN’s Larry King Live, a one-hour NBC Dateline special, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” and “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. Clooney and Prendergast wrote op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Daily Beast, CNN.com, and TIME.

In March 2012, Clooney and Prendergast crossed the border illegally and went into the Nuba Mountains, where Clooney produced a video chronicling atrocities being committed there. Upon returning to DC, Clooney, Prendergast, and members of Congress were arrested protesting outside the Sudan embassy.

Clooney further supported the work of Enough and The Sentry by hosting two Omaze fundraising contests, the first in 2014 and a second in 2015.

 

George Clooney and Enough, in the news and more:

Op-Eds

• “South Sudan’s government-made famine”, Washington Post, March 2017
• “British Banks are Go-betweens in Global Conflict. This can be Stopped.” The Guardian, February 2017
• “Stop the Cash, Stop the Conflict”, The Economist, November 2016
• “War crimes shouldn’t pay in South Sudan”, Washington Post, September 2016
• “Sanctions threats not enough in in South Sudan”, CNN, June 2015
• “Sudan’s Rape of Darfur”, New York Times, February 2015
• “Sudan’s Silent Suffering is Getting Worse”, VICE News, June 2014
• “New Lost Boys of South Sudan”, USA Today, February 2014
• “George Clooney on How to Stop an Inferno in South Sudan”, Daily Beast, December, 2013
• “Sudan Could Become a Second Syria”, USA Today, October, 2013
• “Can You Spot The Human-Rights Abuses Here?”, WiredUK, March 19, 2013
• The Crisis in the Sudans: The Urgency of U.S.-China Cooperation, April 13, 2012
• Famine as a Weapon: It’s Time to Stop Starvation in Sudan, Dec 8, 2011
• What Drives George Clooney, Parade Magazine, Sept. 25, 2011
• A Grand Bargain for Peace in Sudan, The Daily Beast, Nov. 6, 2010
• George Clooney and John Prendergast: We can prevent the next Darfur, Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2010
• Obama’s Opportunity to Help Africa, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 2008

 

Television Interviews, Press Conferences and Special Videos

• “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, September 18, 2016
• “The Lead” with Jake Tapper, CNN, September 12, 2016
• Press Conference, “War Crimes Shouldn’t Pay” report, September 12, 2016
• War Crimes Shouldn’t Pay, September 12, 2016
• George Clooney Behind Front Lines in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, March 14, 2012
• NBC’s ‘Rock Center’ hosts SSP Co-Founder George Clooney, Jan 10, 2012
• “The Late Show with David Letterman,” CBS, October 2011
• “Endgame in Sudan”, Enough Project video report, October 2010
  
• Press Conference, George Clooney, John Kerry and John Prendergast, January 9, 2011
• “Morning Joe”, MSNBC, January 19, 2011
• “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer”, CNN, January 4, 2011
  
• “This Week with Christiane Amanpour,” ABC, January 2, 2011
• “Today Show”, NBC, October, 2010
• “Larry King Live”, CNN, October 15, 2010
  
• “The Winds of War: George Clooney in Sudan,” Dateline NBC December 4, 2010