#celebrity-activism

#celebrity-activism

Billie Eilish has a message for the world's most prominent billionaires: Give your money away, shorties. "I love you all, but there are a few people here with a lot more money than me," she said. "If you're a billionaire-why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties," she said at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards.

"It's the most important to stick up for people and for peace," she said. "We have to use our platforms. What's the point of being at these big events if you're not going to use your privilege?"

Emma Stone is one of the latest Hollywood figures to sign a pledge not to "screen films, appear at, or otherwise work with" Israeli film institutions that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." Film Workers for Palestine published the pledge - which invokes the work of Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, the 1980s initiative co-founded by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese in response to apartheid in South Africa - in a September 8 open letter with more than 1,000 initial signatories.

Rosie O'Donnell responded defiantly to President Trump's threat to revoke her U.S. citizenship, asserting her right to speak out and challenging his authority.

I love you and I have your back! Stay brave. History is screaming. Are you listening?