Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and environmental activist

Leonardo DiCaprio confronts the paparazzi on behalf of the "Clean Alternative Energy" initiative

Leonardo DiCaprio, star of Titanic, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, and other films, appeared this evening at a get-out-the-vote rally for California Proposition 87 and read a short statement supporting passage of that measure while a line of paparazzi, eager to get a "money shot," set off hundreds of electronic flashes at close range to the actor, essentially obliterating his, and his audience's, ability to focus on, or even hear, what the environmental activist had to say about this effort to end California's "addiction to oil" by implementing an oil severance tax that could raise up to $4 billion to fund alternative energy research and deployment.

You can watch and listen to the flash-inundated comments of Mr. DiCaprio, as well as further remarks in support of Proposition 87 from "Yes on 87" Communications Director Yusef Robb; comments designed to undermine support for the measure by "No on 87" spokesperson Scott Macdonald; and a short interview with Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee Chair Eric Bauman, in which he denies the reality of "peak oil" and downplays the likelihood of an ascendant Democratic Party falling into the "power/corruption" syndrome now dragging down its Republican Party rival on the newly-launched Celebrity Activist Channel.

Also on offer on the Celebrity Activist Channel is video of former Commander in Chief star Gina Davis introducing former President Bill Clinton before his own speech in support of Proposition 87 on the UCLA campus in Westwood, California, on October 13, 2006, and video of Desperate Housewives vixen Eva Longoria introducing Clinton before his November 1, 2006, largely-identical speech in San Francisco, and a four-part interview with actor/environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., who plays the dean of Hearst College on television's Veronica Mars show.

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non-celebrity activism in support of the Earth's continued ecological viability and its ability to sustain human civilization

For the latest and best in non-celebrity interviews about the looming twin-threats of peak oil and global warming, and the efforts of non-celebrities to raise a warming, educate the public, and mobilize a response while there's still time, you might want to watch the programs on the also-recently-launched Earth Defense Department Channel below.

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