UTA Scraps Oscar Party In Favor of Refugee Rally
10:41 AM PST 2/8/2017 by Erik Hayden
The agency is donating $250,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union and International Rescue Committee instead.
United Talent Agency is scrapping its annual Oscar party in favor of making a donation to a group that has been on the front lines of fighting the President's executive order targeting travel from Muslim-majority countries.
"This is a moment that demands our generosity, awareness and restlessness," wrote UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer to staff. “Our world is a better place for the free exchange of artists, ideas and creative expression. If our nation ceases to be the place where artists the world over can come to express themselves freely, then we cease, in my opinion, to be America.”
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