Danny Glover Helps Union in Puerto Rico

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060731/D8J77G8G0.html

Danny Glover Helps Union in Puerto Rico


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Danny Glover helped launch a campaign to rally Puerto Rico's hotel workers to join the local branch of a large U.S. labor union in a bid to gain better pay and benefits.


U.S. actor Danny Glover, center, poses for photographs with local hotel workers during a rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, July 30, 2006. Glover helped to launch a campaign to encourage hotel workers to join the local branch of "Unite Here", a large U.S. labor union, and fight to increase local wages. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)


Glover, whose movie credits include "The Royal Tenenbaums" and the "Lethal Weapon" series, joined leaders of the Gastronomical Union, which represents about 2,100 employees at nine hotels in the U.S. territory, to call for the island's hospitality workers to unite under a single banner.

[sweetheart]

1. what a cool guy

and his drunken costar is getting all the airtime for being a bigot, sadly.

[Lars39]

2. Character written on that face.

Contrast face and actions to Gibson's. Glover wins hands down.

[zonkers]

8. Heads up. Glover just finished a movie - Razor's Gift, coming out soon...

synopsis:

An elderly man, nicknamed Razor, has just returned to the South Bronx, after spending fifty years in prison. As the effects of Alzheimer's slowly deteriorate his mind, he tries desperately to finish a task that he believes will give meaning to his life.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758778/

[Kolesar]

9. If only I could find meaning to my life

thx for the linx

[salinen]

3. Hurry back Danny

Mel needs help

[YOY]

6. Naw...he's "too old for this shit"

Let Mel sort out his won problems.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. man,

that just brings tears to my eyes.

Thanks. Good news is hard to come by.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Danny Glover is a serious...

class act, all the way. I have such respect for him for all the good works he has done. :loveya:

[samsingh]

7. Glover is a good man - consistently

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

10. Kudos to Danny Glover n/t

[calico1]

11. Well done, Danny!

I always liked him more than Gibson anyway.

[TheDebbieDee]

12. Did you know he didn't learn how to read until late in life?

A teacher of his suspected that he had dyslexia (and therefore not stupid, as the other kids had led him to believe) years before it became a well-known term. He was a booster for reading education....I vaguely remember some PSAs he did for learning disablities, I think.

And he's too crazy about Schwarzeneggar as governor either!