March 13: Clooney addresses the Council of Foreign Affairs re: Sudan
March 14: Clooney testifies at the Senate Foreign Affairs Relations Sudan & South Sudan: Independence and Insecurity hearing.
March 15: Clooney meets with Barack Obama to discuss Sudan
March 16: Clooney is arrested protesting at the Embassy of Sudan in Washington DC 

“But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older.”

George Clooney Photographed by Norman Jean Roy for Vanity Fair, 2006.
“Clooney is always Clooney the way Gable was always Gable.”

Charitable Celebrites: George Clooney and the Darfur crisis

“Recently, the International Criminal Court used the footage we’ve been gathering to indict the [Sudanese] defence minister with war crimes. And Omar al-Bashir said, ‘how would you like it, Mr. Clooney, if every time you left your house, there was a camera watching you?’ Well, I believe that I’d like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me. That seems fair. That’s our objective. To just shine a light on it.”