Mikhail Gorbachev, since retiring from leading the USSR, has helped to
found the environmental group Green Cross International. Robert
Kennedy Jr., son of the former senator, is a lawyer for the Natural
Resource Defense Council, another environmental group. Jimmy Carter,
the former president, runs the Carter Center, which conducts
humanitarian missions to improve the lives of people in the third
world.

Can you suggest a handful of other well-known individuals who are
active in social causes, especially environmentalism and/or helping
people in third world countries?

Dear gnu-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. Here are a handful of people who immediately come to mind:

Nancy Reagan (former First Lady) - an Alzheimer's Activist and founder
of ?Just Say No? to drugs campaign.

Michael J. Fox (semi retired actor) ? Parkinson?s and Stem Cell activist.

The late Christopher Reeve (retired actor ? now deceased) - Stem Cell activist.

Dick Gregory (former comedian) ? environment, health, and civil rights

Charleton Heston (retired actor) ? Second Amendment rights activist

Ramsey Clark (former Attorney General) ? civil rights, peace activist

Al Sharpton (former minister) ? civil rights, environment, peace activist

Jesse Jackson ? civil rights and whatever else you can get him to back up.

Doris Day (retired actress) ? animal rights

Tippi Hedron (retired actress) ? animal rights

Brigitte Bardot (retired actress) ? animal rights

Sally Struthers (semi retired actress) ? Save the Children

Russ Peterson (Former Delaware Governor) - Environmentalist

Nelson Mandela (former President of South Africa) ? civil rights,
anti-apartheid, political reform

Peter Storey (Retired Bishop, South Africa) - anti-apartheid activist

Desmond Tutu (retired South African Anglican archbishop) ? civil
rights, peace, anti-apartheid, political reform

Dr. C. Everett. Koop (retired physician and former Surgeon General) ? public health



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How about Angelina Jolie, who has turned out to be a woman of substance?

http://allafrica.com/stories/200410280885.html

Must we include Charlton Heston in a list that is supposed to describe
people "who are
active in social causes, especially environmentalism and/or helping
people in third world countries?"

Good answer. I crave even more names, so I shall open another question...