Leonardo DiCaprio Meets With Trump & Ivanka To Talk Green Jobs

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Just as Al Gore talked green jobs in his recent meeting with president-elect Donald Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation Terry Tamminen focused their 90-minute environmental presentation on job creation in the green sector when they met with Trump, his daughter Ivanka and other members of the Trump team on Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York.

"Today, we presented the President-elect and his advisors with a framework — which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism — that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure," Tamminen said. "Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation."

The Oscar-winning actor has been a strong advocate of fighting climate change and preserving wildlife, and his recent documentary, "Before the Flood," addresses the peril that the world faces because of climate change.

DiCaprio previously met with Ivanka Trump and presented her with a copy of the film.

On Wednesday Trump also announced that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt -- a tremendous foe of the climate change and environmental protections -- will head the Environmental Protection Agency.

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, BEFORE THE FLOOD presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change. BEFORE THE FLOOD will be in theaters in NYC and LA starting October 21, and air globally on the National Geographic Channel starting October 30.

NYC Guggenheim Museum Talks Steve Jobs' New Opera On April 9, 2017

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Composer Mason Bates, librettist Mark Campbell and director Kevin Newbury are writing an opera about the life of Apple visionary Steve Jobs scheduled to debut in Santa Fe.

On April 9 and 10, 2017, a handful of New Yorkers will have the chance to hear the trio discuss what it was like to write an opera about the man who put an iPhone in the hands of more than 101 million Americans. New York's Guggenheim museum presents the creators of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” as part of its Works & Process series on April 9 at the Guggenheim's Peter B. Lewis Theater, which seats 285 audience members for a moderated conversation.

Related: A Steve Jobs Opera Is Next Up for the Santa Fe Company New York Times

Forget Hamilton, Steve Jobs' life will make for memorable opera CultofMac.com

Will Ivanka Trump Be the Most Powerful First Daughter in History?

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Will Ivanka Trump Be the Most Powerful First Daughter in History? AOC Front Page

How the Trump daughter runs the family businesses while acting as a policy adviser to her father -- without conflicts of interest guaranteed to rock a Trump presidency -- currently is a topic of hot debate. Yet, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the president-elect shortly after November 8, he handed the phone to his daughter when the conversation moved from infrastructure and domestic policy to women's issues.

Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel

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Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel AOC Front Page

“Dear Ivanka,” the protest’s title and name of the Instagram account sending messages to Ivanka Trump, drew notable artists like Cecily Brown, Rob Pruitt, Ryan McNamara, Jonah Freeman, Dan Colen, and Marilyn Minter; as well as writers and curators like Wendy Vogel, Brian Droitcour, Zoë Lescaze, David Velasco, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Alison Gingeras, Carolyn Ramo, and Fabiola Alondra, along with dealers and advisors Jay Gorney, Bill Powers, and Erin Goldberger, ArtNews reports.

Related: Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty November 4, 2016-April 2, 2017

Minter, who is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, told the New York Times of her involvement: “The culture changes, and fascism rears its ugly head every so often and that’s what’s happening now,” she said. “We wanted to do something to start to the ball rolling, to grow a protest, and we’re artists, so we know how to make posters.”

Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide

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Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide AOC Front Page

Pictured above on her first trip to Africa in 1993, Melinda Gates could now be the most important action hero for women worldwide. That includes America, where the Republican War on Women is in full swing with their commitment to defunding Planned Parenthood, rolling back not only abortion rights but rights to contraception as well, and focusing on personhood legislation, which not only establishes a legal definition of life as beginning at conception, but severely limiting the civil rights of all pregnant women by equating her rights with those of a 24-hour old fertilized egg.

With the rise of alt-right lover Donald Trump as America's next president, the Trump administration is surrounding themselves with officials who want to implement this full-court strategy against American women asap.

Without Hillary Clinton at the helm of the American presidency, the future of women's most precious rights probably falls to Melinda Gates, who is notably apolitical. The first order in a Trump administration will be once again cutting off any federal government support for contraception and family planning worldwide. America's Catholic bishops and Christian conservatives in Congress won't permit it.

Read on about Melinda Gates and her refusal to bow to these massive powers that dominate American culture. 

Jennifer Lawrence Is 'J Law' In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Holiday 2016-17

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Jennifer Lawrence Is 'J Law' In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Holiday 2016-17

This fall, Lawrence flew to Africa to shadow photojournalist Lynsey Addario as she documented South Sudanese refugees crossing into Uganda. Although the experience offered her a rare veil of anonymity (when introducing herself to a U.N. worker as Jennifer, he replied, “Ahhh, like Jennifer Lopez”), she was haunted by her uselessness. “The worst feeling about being there was that I wasn’t helping anybody,” she says of the humanitarian crisis. “I was doing a character study.” (Lawrence is also a producer on It’s What I Do, the Spielberg film based on Addario’s memoir.) Lawrence, who has donated generously to a number of charities (including $2 million to a children’s hospital in her hometown this year), said she found solace in vowing to visit again in a more active role.

This photo was shared by Lynsey Addario with Jennifer Lawrence on her Instagram page, with the message: "Look who I dragged to Uganda/South Sudan.

While the bulk of my own work in Sudan has been in Khartoum, AOC has been covering the South Sudan refugee crisis. Read on: Nykhor Paul's 'We Are Nilotic' T-shirts Zero In On South Sudan's Fragile Beauty.

Doutzen Kroes: An Angel For Elephants By Ruven Afanador For Bloomberg Pursuits

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Doutzen Kroes: An Angel For Elephants By Ruven Afanador For Bloomberg Pursuits

Doutzen Kroes has been a voice for elephants and steps up again to lead the Knot On My Planet campaign. Kroes is deadly serious about the need to put an end to the ivory crisis and elephant extinction -- a passion burning inside her since she first visited Samburu, Kenya. 

Doutzen Kroes Leads Knot On My Planet, Igniting Fashion Industry For Elephant Conservation

Stella McCartney Delivers 2016 Kering Talk On Deforestation & Sustainable Viscose

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Salma Hayek supported good friend Stella McCartney's 2016 Kering Talk Monday evening at the London College of Fashion. Her nature-inspired print dress came from McCartney's vegetarian fashion collection. Hayek's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, the Kering CEO, attended as well.

The focus of Stella's talk was the issue of deforestation and sustainable sourcing of viscose, one of the most used fabrics in the global fashion industry. 

The Stella McCartney lifestyle brand was launched in partnership with Kering in 2001. Fifteen years later, the designer is the luxury industry's most consistent voice for animal and environmental welfare and sustainable design. Materials like organic cotton and recycled cashmere are fundamental to the brand. 

When McCartney first launched her label she was “ridiculed” for banning leather and fur from her collections. “I was told definitely I would not have a business, I wouldn’t have an accessories business…by people I worked with, that I looked up to." But as luxury consumers have become more conscious of the impact of their consumption decisions on the planet's health, Stella McCartney sales have risen annually in the "double digits . . . for a while now."

“Fashion is one of the most harmful industries on the planet, and I think people are a little more aware of that now,” Stella said in her Kering Talk. While she says she doesn't want to preach, McCartney didn't hesitate to call out her parent company. “I’m sure [Kering] will give up python farms very soon,” she said wishfully. She was especially adamant that fashion companies trade out real fur for faux: “You really can’t tell the difference. There’s no reason to kill 15 million innocent creatures.”

Nicole Kidman Is Full Throttle Sumptuous In Yu Tsai Images For Flaunt Magazine

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Nicole Kidman Is Full Throttle Sumptuous In Yu Tsai Images For Flaunt Magazine

Kidman is currently starring in 'Lion', a true story inspired by Sue Brierly, who adopted Saroo Brierly., living in an Indian orphanage. 

As an adult, Saroo Brierley, now an Australian citizen uses Google Earth to find the family that he was separated from in India. Sunny Pawar commands the screen for much of the film’s first hour, playing Saroo as a 5-year-old lost on the streets of Calcutta. It marks his first screen role, one that’s already earned him raves. Variety critic Peter Debruge wrote that Pawar is “so adorable he could set off an Indian adoption craze.”

Priyanka Bose and Dev Patel join Kidman and Pawar in the cast.  

Get Tickets - http://www.fandango.com/lion_192142/movieoverview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Starring: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel Lion Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Dev Patel Movie A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

'Years of Living Dangerously', Gisele's National Geographic Series On Climate Change in Amazon

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GISELE IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, TALKING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON TREES FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

'Years of Living Dangerously', Gisele's National Geographic Series On Climate Change in Amazon

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen is among the most successful talents of all time. Gisele continues to dominate the Forbes Highest-earning Models List in 2016, with an estimated earnings of $30.5 million last year.  

Not everyone knows that Bündchen has been a dedicated environmentalist for many years. Next week the opening ceremonies star of the Rio Olympics takes cameras with her on an expedition into her home country. Starring in an episode of the award-winning National Geographic Channel series 'Years of Living Dangerously', Gisele next week directs an expedition deep into the Brazilian rain forest for a closeup view of deforestation and its effects on climate change. She explains:

Beyonce, Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony: Clinton Concerts Rock the Night

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Beyonce, Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony: Clinton Concerts Rock the Night

After a psychologically and emotionally back-breaking campaign, Hillary Clinton, Bill and Chelsea; Michelle and Barack Obama; and a large contingent of Democratic heavyweights will roll into Philadelphia's Independence Hall tonight to end Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. 

Rockers Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi will headline the entertainment in a week that has brought out a long list of superstars, driving a wide array of supporting souls to the polls for Hillary. 

"With Independence Hall as the backdrop, Clinton will urge Pennsylvanians to make history on Tuesday by electing her president so she can continue pushing for the American ideals of progress, inclusion, equality and strength that our founders enshrined in our Constitution there in 1787," states a message on Hillary Clinton's website.

Pharrell Williams Blasts the Sexism of Hillary Clinton's Dishonest Narrative

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Hillary Clinton is joined by musician and hit music producer Pharrell Williams and former figure skater and surrogate outreach coordinator for the Clinton campaign Michelle Kwan departing from her campaign plane Thursday in North Carolina. 

In a strategy that many -- including AOC-- believe Clinton surrogates should have employed sooner, Pharrell addressed directly the questions around Clinton's honesty. Besides asking audience members exactly where and how Hillary was dishonest -- besides the small lies every politicians engage in -- Pharrell said the real problem was sexism. The mega talent has backed Hillary Clinton since March 2014, long before she publicly announced her candidacy. 

In addition to covering Hillary Clinton News in her own AOC Channel, our AOC Front Page is also committed to informing and featuring important news around next Tuesday's presidential election. 

Note that tonight, Hillary hooks up with Jay-Z in Cleveland for a free concert with tickets issued to those who have voted. 

JUST IN!!! Based on Actual Voting in Florida, Hillary Is Taking 28% of the Republican Vote

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We are fired up and ready to go!!!

Clinton is winning 28% of Republican votes cast in Florida to date, based on surveys of votes already cast. Goddess bless us all!!! The REAL vote -- not the polls -- but the real votes cast in Florida so far are crossing over for Hillary. It's projected that Hillary Clinton has 53% of the actual votes cast in Florida so far. Barring a major catastrophe, Hillary Clinton is projected to win Florida by 8% on Tuesday.

You KNOW the Republican group is disproportionately Republican women.

NOW, the Senate vote is neck and neck in Florida. We MUST take the Senate because Republicans are already saying they will not confirm a Supreme Court candidate for four years.

We MUST take the Senate to protect the Supreme Court and advance the issues all the progressive Hillary haters claim to care about. Without the Senate, this will be a minor presidential victory.

This could be a wipeout. We are fired up and ready to go!!! It's time to fix America and it will be a broad-based coalition. That means not everyone will get everything on their list. If we protect the Senate, we have the Supreme Court. ~ Anne