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Madonna and Robert de Niro join 200 celebrities and scientists calling for the world not to 'return to normal' after Covid-19 lockdowns and stop 'the pursuit of consumerism'
Daily Mail ^ | May 6, 2020 | Rory Butler

Posted on 05/07/2020 8:35:13 AM PDT by EdnaMode

A host of celebrities and scientists including Madonna, Robert de Niro and a clutch of Nobel Prize winners have called for radical change in the world rather than 'a return to normal' after the coronavirus lockdowns.

Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci also added their names to the open letter published in the French daily Le Monde.

The signatories are pleading for an end to unbridled consumerism and a 'radical transformation' of economies to help save the planet.

The movement has been penned and led by actress Juliette Binoche and astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau.

A full list of the 200 signatories is published in this article (below).

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: adamdriver; aurlienbarrau; barbrastresiand; barrau; binoche; blanchett; capitalism; cateblanchett; communism; consumerism; deniro; elites; evagreen; hollywood; hollywoodhypocrites; janefonda; joaquinphoenix; juliettebinoche; madonna; oliviawilde; robertdeniro; socialism; streisand; willemdafoe
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To: EdnaMode

They want everybody living in dull gray cinderblock apartments, never owning a car, walking to work in dull gray sackcloth clothes, nobody ever smiling, everybody furtively casting suspicious glances at others, eating dull gray slop, leading dull gray lives, and dying at age 33.

Everybody but them, of course.


21 posted on 05/07/2020 8:46:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: EdnaMode

Mainly a lot of foreigners I don’t recognize and the ones I do are already on my excrement list. All a bunch of 1 percenters kicking down, pathetic and evil bastards.


22 posted on 05/07/2020 8:47:12 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: EdnaMode

When they have given away all their money and sold all their worldly possessions, then I might listen.


23 posted on 05/07/2020 8:48:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dfwgator

For yo and me, not for themselves.


24 posted on 05/07/2020 8:48:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: EdnaMode

from the material girl herself

this stuff has to be made up.....is this from the onion?


25 posted on 05/07/2020 8:48:52 AM PDT by QualityMan
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To: EdnaMode

Oh, this is rich!

They can go first.


26 posted on 05/07/2020 8:49:22 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: EdnaMode

These Marxists have completely exposed their true identities. Indeed, let’s not return to normal and we can start by abandoning Hollywood and the elitist Communists that regard the rest of us with contempt.


27 posted on 05/07/2020 8:49:28 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: Kickass Conservative; blu
We Just Wanna Make The World Dance


28 posted on 05/07/2020 8:50:18 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SmokingJoe

I read headlines and am often surprised they are from the media and not The Babylon Bee.


29 posted on 05/07/2020 8:50:33 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

With the “animation” technology of today, I think movie companies should just start making movies like that and not pay these people who call themselves actors...


30 posted on 05/07/2020 8:50:47 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: EdnaMode
Oh yes stop consuming so much. Yet these commie creeps still think they should live in 10,000 sq ft. homes with 5 car garages filled with exotic cars. It's ok for them to own a draw full of 30k rolex and richard millie watches but us plebs have to live like the peasants that they all perceive us to be.

We need to stop putting these people on a pedestal. We can act in ways that help to prevent these types of people from becoming rich. Don't go to movies when they first come out. Pay a little as possible or nothing at all for their entertainment. As a consumer, demand cheap entertainment. Cheat the entertainment system as much as possible so they ultimately lose money.

31 posted on 05/07/2020 8:51:23 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: EdnaMode

“Dance, Monkeys, Dance!”


32 posted on 05/07/2020 8:52:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode
The signatories are pleading for an end to unbridled consumerism

Have they even walked around their own houses?

33 posted on 05/07/2020 8:53:52 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: EdnaMode

How bout those rich communists.


34 posted on 05/07/2020 8:54:00 AM PDT by stuckincali
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To: EdnaMode

They should sell all that they have and give it to the poor....


35 posted on 05/07/2020 8:55:14 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: EdnaMode

Two hundred “celebrities” wow, well that’s it; I’m in. Where do I get my Nehru suit and hand mower? F%^K these morons.


36 posted on 05/07/2020 8:58:57 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Jemian
Have they even walked around their own houses?

No.

They have people for that.


37 posted on 05/07/2020 8:59:46 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: EdnaMode

“Stop Consumerism?!”

OK, I will not consume anything the 200 of you produce!

Gee, that is so hard!


38 posted on 05/07/2020 9:00:15 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: EdnaMode

Like the $150,000/yr judge in Texas telling an unemployed woman she’s “selfish” for wanting to go back to work so she can have money to feed her children, and then fining her $7,000 and throwing her in jail, even as they let the real criminals OUT of jail. Leftism is Satanism.


39 posted on 05/07/2020 9:00:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: EdnaMode

Did they urge an end to consumerism from their multi million dollar mansions, their Ferraris and Limos, their yachts or their private jets?


40 posted on 05/07/2020 9:00:32 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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