Angelina Jolie’s Mom Dies at 56

There is a video Angie’s mother with JB (Angie’s godmother).

It’s not a new one but want to share……

http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah3742.shtml

With increasing experience, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. Since 2005 she has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, announcing the formation of a Council of Business Leaders with UNHCR’s Deputy High Commissioner, Wendy Chamberlin, in 2005, and participated in the panel discussion Human Rights: Reduced to Charity? in 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in Washington, D.C. where she met with congressmen and senators at least 20 times from 2003.[40] She explained in Forbes:

As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that’s the way to move the ball.[40]

Among others, she pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in reaction to her previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona. On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. where she promoted the bill and in support of it announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.[46] The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been granted.[40] In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using the public’s interest in her to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. In May 2005 Jolie filmed a MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. There, Sachs’s United Nations Millennium Project team is working with locals to end poverty, hunger and disease. In September 2005 Jolie was named the new spokesperson for the clothing line St. John starting in the Spring of 2006. The deal includes the start-up of a charity headed by Jolie which will focus on children’s issues and causes. On October 24, 2005 Jolie attended the First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), where she pledged to partner with the WWO to treat children in Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive. She also announced her plan to support the WWO’s Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and pledged an initial grant.[47] In September 2006 Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.[48]

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~ Joy ~

Just read your post about you being a BC survivor [2yr, in Feb,]
Feb, 14th, is my ?????????????? birthday….. Valentine Day

Let’s have a toast that day to celebrate your anniversary, and me
still hanging in there…… i hope you like a good sparkling wine.

Take Care ~~~ LOL

Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghan refugees, in May 2005 and she also met with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. She returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt during the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the October 8 Kashmir earthquake. They met many quake victims as well as President Musharraf. In 2006 Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. Jolie also arranged a deal with People allowing them to print the first picture showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to Yéle Haïti.[49] During a two-month stay in Namibia, as she awaited the birth of her daughter, Jolie promoted the Global Education Week in an interview with NBC and she also took part in a conference call with UK Chancellor Gordon Brown who has pledged an extra $16 billion towards universal free education. Jolie has worked with Senator Hillary Clinton since 2005 to get the Education for All bill approved by the U.S. Congress.[50] In November 2006, while filming A Mighty Heart in India, she visited Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi and met the Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, praising India’s longstanding hospitality to refugees.

Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. On October 24, 2003 she was the first recipient of the new created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.[51] On October 12, 2005, Jolie was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.[52]

Thanks Marcheline for bringing her into he world.

For those who made an online donation where did you specify the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai at. On the online form there is an designation where you click on which area you want to donate to. There is not one specifically woman’s cancer research institute. Out of the various selections there is one for cancer , or woman’s & maternal health. Which one should I click on. There is a comment section where you put payment info and I was thinking to typing there to make the donation to Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai. I want to make sure my donation goes to the correct one.

Tabitha– In the comments section; you type in or cut and paste , Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai. and at the end you can pick “In memory of”….
If you go to their site they specifically say if it is not on their pull down menu to specify it in the comments section. I hope this helps.

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Tabitha Says:

January 29th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I was watching Access Hollywood. They mentioned the passing of Angelina’s Mom. They brought up the GG and said that Angelina put up a brave face at the GG’s to to support Brad knowing that her Mom was very ill. This is not the exact wording but the general gist of it. It was very tasteful and respectful how they handled it.

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I watched AH as well and I agree with you, it was very tasteful and respectful and they sent their condolences to Angie and her family

thank you i wrote a message

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Lady G Says:

January 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
There is a video Angie’s mother with JB (Angie’s godmother).

It’s not a new one but want to share……

http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah3742.shtml

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Thank you Lady G for the video. Jacqueline Bissett was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, and yet, Marcheline could still rival her in the looks department.

I am so torn up over this. I can’t stop sobbing. No one loves you like a mother. No one. I feel so bad for her. Its hard for us girls..if you are blessed to have a good relationship with a mother – she is the bestest of all best friends. Even after many years have passed, you will always miss your mom. Although I don’t know Marceline or Angie - I truly feel for them. Reading such lovely comments only make me cry even more. Thanks to all.

I am glad that she has Brad to support her doing this time. My condolences to the entire family…

paula bianca Says:

January 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Hello paula bianca and I shall call you “PB” from now on ,is that OK wiyh you? :lol: please keep on posting, you will love ty at JJ’s very, very nice folks from all over the world….

Thank you Jared and Audrey for providing a medium for B&A’s fans to share our thoughts at a time like this.
Thank all of you who shared your experience and stories. It has been very soothing to read your posts.