You may or may not like Sean Penn as an actor (although admit it, he’s almost always great) or as a person (let’s not overlook the fact that you might well have gone off on a paparazzi or two if you found yourself married to Madonna), but you have to admire his singular determination to make the world a better place.
He’s now running a camp for 55,000 displaced Haitians.
In a remarkable interview with Amy Goodman — in itself an powerful refutation of celebrity gossip journalism — he talks about Haiti’s future, foreign aid groups, why he turned to Venezuala’s president for aid instead of asking Obama, how much he admires the effort of the U.S. Army in Haiti, and how he came to care.
