Leonardo DiCaprio
Added to Global Citizen Festival Lineup
by Kipp Jones 21 Sep 2015New York, NY
Leonardo DiCaprio has
been added to the lineup of celebrity activists who will appear onstage at next
week’s Global Citizen Festival
at New York City’s Central Park.
The festival will be taking up the issues of global poverty
and inequality, and climate change again this year, and will highlight the
launch of a new set of global development goals, according
to Page Six.
DiCaprio, a staunch environmentalist, and U2’s Bono will be
joining celebs Stephen Colbert, Hugh Jackman, Kerry Washington, Salma Hayek, Olivia
Wilde, and Deborra-Lee Funess as presenters of the show.
Beyoncé, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Pearl Jam will perform at
the Sept 26 event, which will stream on MSNBC’s website and YouTube.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will
be in attendance, as will a number of powerful CEOs and prime ministers.
2015 Global Citizen Festival partners include YouTube,
Google,
iHeartRadio, Clear Channel Outdoor, MSNBC, the New York City Department of
Parks & Recreation and T- Mobile.
Ban Ki-moon
Ban
Ki-Moon is the secretary general for the United Nations, and an honorary chair at the International Peace Institute (think tank).
Note: Rita E. Hauser is
the chair for the International Peace
Institute (think tank), and was a director at the New America Foundation (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation (think tank), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Roosevelt Institute.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and is Jonathan
Soros’s father.
Jonathan
Soros is George Soros’s son, a
director at the New America Foundation,
and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute.
Eric E. Schmidt was a funder for the New America Foundation, is the chairman of
the New America Foundation, married to Wendy Schmidt, the
chairman for Google Inc., and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Wendy
Schmidt is married to Eric E.
Schmidt, and a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and was a board member at Global Green USA.
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross
International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
and the president of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR).
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, and the chair for the Roosevelt Institute.
YouTube
is a video service for Google Inc.
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