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  Bianca Jagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Moreno de Macias on May 2, 1945, in Managua, Nicaragua) is a social and political activist made famous by having married Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.
When Bianca was studying political science in Paris, she demonstrated against the Somoza regime after the massacre of students perpetrated by Somoza's National Guard.
Bianca Jagger also gave a reading at the start of the memorial service in London's Westminster Cathedral, which was timed to coincide with the funeral in Brazil of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot eight times on a tube-train after being mistaken for a suicide bomber in London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bianca_Jagger   (663 words)

  
 Bianca Jagger - Nicaragua - 2004 Right Livelihood Award Recipient   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bianca Jagger was born in 1950 in Nicaragua, where she experienced the harsh US-backed military rule of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua for almost half a Century until 1979.
Jagger went to the former Yugoslavia to document the mass rape of Bosnian women by Serbian forces as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Jagger was part of a fact-finding mission to the area in October 2003 and 2004.
www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/2004/bianca-jagger.htm   (960 words)

  
 A Conversation with Bianca Jagger, Human Rights Advocate -- Logos Fall 2003
Jagger received the 1994 United Nations Earth Day award, the 1997 Green Globe award from the Rain Forest Alliance for her efforts on behalf of saving tropical rain forests and securing the rights of indigenous peoples, and an "Abolitionist of the Year" award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Jagger: Not only did they force them to become authoritarian but they were forced to invest a disproportionate amount of their budget on military spending instead of focusing on what they initially tried to do, which was invest in education, eradicate illiteracy, health care reforms, and economic improvements.
Jagger: For many years I lobbied UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and various UN undersecretaries to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate Srebrenica and determine whether its personnel should be held accountable for crimes against humanity.
www.logosjournal.com /jagger.htm   (6670 words)

  
 Bianca Jagger 'homeless' - People - www.theage.com.au
Bianca Jagger, former wife of the Rolling Stones lead singer, said today she was "homeless" as she battles a landlord over mould she says has infested her Park Avenue apartment.
Jagger, 59, who appeared at a hearing in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, said she has been living out of suitcases at friends' homes for almost three years because her four-room, $4,600-a-month apartment was uninhabitable.
Jagger is suing her Park Avenue landlord and contractors who worked on the apartment for $US20 million ($A28.58 million) because of water leaks and problems with mould she claims was toxic and caused her pulmonary and neurological problems and severe headaches.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/11/1084041372603.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true   (300 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Depth | Newsmakers | Bianca Jagger: Champion of peace
Bianca Jagger is taking a prominent role in opposing the planned war against Iraq.
Bianca Jagger poses this rhetorical question in answer to the argument that America will create a climate in which freedoms can flourish once it has liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein.
Bianca Jagger has been characterised as well-informed, forthright, difficult, driven, all the adjectives one might expect from a humanitarian campaigner.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2763139.stm   (808 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Bianca Jagger files $20 million suit over house- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Bianca Jagger complains in a $20 million lawsuit that her Park Avenue apartment house is not a proper home because it is infested with toxic mold.
Jagger, 58, accused the owner and managing agents of her Manhattan building of negligence, breach of contract and fraud.
A Sept. 11 New York Times article quoted Jagger, who was married to rocker Mick Jagger from 1971 to 1979, as saying that she had endured a "difficult" summer partly because "my apartment has poisonous mold." Her apartment building is near East 60th Street.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20030919/bianca_jagger_suit_030919/20030919?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory   (284 words)

  
 The Harry Walker Agency, Inc.
Jagger inspires audiences as she recounts the experiences that have changed and shaped her life.
Bianca Jagger’s commitment to justice and human rights issues was inevitable for she was born in Nicaragua, a country that endured almost 50 years of despotic dictatorship and has seen so much political upheaval.
Jagger's traveled to the former Yugoslavia to document claims of mass rape of Bosnian women by Serbian forces as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
www.harrywalker.com /speakers_pitch.cfm?Spea_ID=813   (305 words)

  
 index magazine interview
BIANCA: I went with a delegation of thirty-two academics from twenty-eight U.S. universities.
BIANCA: Despite all the military preparations for war, there was a lack of preparedness for the humanitarian catastrophe that would ensue.
BIANCA: Artists, intellectuals, celebrities — everyone who is a role model — need to go out and speak to young people about the importance of voting.
www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/bianca_jagger.shtml   (1016 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: Waiting for Bianca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
NEW YORK (AP) Rock diva and human rights activist Bianca Jagger reacted with puzzlement and disbelief Thursday night when told that the President of the United States was looking for her in Washington.
Jagger angrily denied rumors that she had been prompted by White House staffers to ask the president a softball question about his work on behalf of human rights.
Jagger were "old friends," who had often "shared a few lines" in the back room at Studio 54, the famous '70s New York disco club.
billmon.org /archives/002183.html   (257 words)

  
 CNN.com - Landlord files to have Bianca Jagger evicted - Apr 6, 2005
Jagger, the ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, stopped paying her $4,600 monthly rent in July 2003, claiming that water damage in her apartment had led to harmful levels of mold.
Bianca Jagger married Mick Jagger in 1971 and had one daughter, Jade, with him.
Jagger's clothes, furniture and business documents were damaged by the water and mold, Bryson said, and doctors have documented her health ailments, popularly known as "sick building syndrome."
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/04/06/jagger   (511 words)

  
 Bianca Jagger's U.N. charity persona caps a tabloid life - PittsburghLIVE.com
The life of Bianca Jagger has been one of a rise from poverty to the demimonde to using in her middle age her notoriety to campaign for various liberal causes.
Bianca Jagger was born in Managua on July 25, 1945.
Bianca and her younger sister grew up in poverty, but when Blanca developed into a beauty, somehow the money was found to send her to Paris.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_25968.html   (1490 words)

  
 The IEQ Review: NY Judge Dismisses Attempt to Evict Bianca Jagger
Jagger says she is "homeless" and has been living out of suitcases at friends' homes for almost three years because of a mold infestation in her four-room Park Avenue apartment.
She was served with an eviction notice earlier this month while pursuing a $20 million lawsuit she filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan against the landlord and contractors.
In court papers, landlord Katz Park Avenue Corp. said Jagger's Park Avenue residence was not her primary residence and that she maintained a home in London.
www.imakenews.com /pureaircontrols/e_article000266307.cfm?x=b3cvyvj,bvtvC3K   (256 words)

  
 Bianca Jagger To Address Third World Health Issues- March 6, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jagger, a tireless campaigner for human rights for more than 20 years, will speak on "Women and Children in the Third World." She is the former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
Jagger, who has traveled around the world on fact-finding missions and relief efforts, has recently joined Save the Children in Albania, to assess the needs of thousands of displaced and underprivile ged children.
For her achievements on environmental issues, Jagger was one of 10 recipients of the Rainforest Alliance's Green Globe Awards.
www.advance.uconn.edu /2000/000306/00030604.htm   (390 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS in India: Bianca Jagger goes to see how Christian Aid partners are helping /03.12.02
Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger went to India with Christian Aid in November to shed some light on the situation.
She visited Delhi and Calcutta to see what our partners are doing to prevent the spread of HIV and care for those already infected.
Bianca Jagger says: 'The stigma is such in India that people do not want to discuss AIDS.
www.christian-aid.org.uk /news/celebrities/biancajagger   (808 words)

  
 AEGiS-AP: Bianca Jagger speaks about Ecuadorean health at Chevron Texaco annual meeting
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Thrusting a celebrity's punch into a long-running battle, social butterfly-turned-social activist Bianca Jagger urged ChevronTexaco Corp. Wednesday to clean up an environmental quagmire in the Ecuador jungles where the oil giant once thrived.
Jagger -- a former model who became an habitu De of the 1970s party scene during her eight-year marriage to rock-and-roll star Mick Jagger -- was one of several critics who faced off with ChevronTexaco chairman and CEO David O'Reilly during the company's annual shareholders meeting.
Echoing the allegations in a lawsuit currently on trial in Ecuador, Jagger accused San Ramon, Caif.-based ChevronTexaco of turning its back on Amazon Indians who are dying from cancer and other lethal health problems caused by decades of oil drilling in the Amazon jungle.
www.aegis.com /news/ap/2004/AP040461.html   (710 words)

  
 Bianca's plea for Tookie - People - Entertainment - smh.com.au
Bianca Jagger holds up a shirt after leaving San Quentin Prison.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and human rights champion Bianca Jagger have visited a condemned US inmate and called for celebrity Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life.
Jackson and Jagger decried the case against Williams as based on evidence that included jailhouse "snitches" out to ingratiate themselves with police.
www.smh.com.au /news/people/biancas-plea-for-tookie/2005/11/22/1132421643529.html   (579 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Bianca Jagger seeks to kindle U.S.-Iran dialogue
TEHRAN: Back in 1968 Mick Jagger had plenty of "Sympathy for the Devil," but his first wife Bianca is far more critical of "The Great Satan" and fears U.S. unwillingness to talk to Iran could lead to conflict.
Jagger admitted it was difficult to juggle criticism of U.S. policy toward Iran with the need to hold Tehran to account on its human rights record.
Jagger will meet people such as rights lawyers and former President Mohammad Khatami to work out ways in which Iran and the United States can speak to each other directly.
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=18590   (652 words)

  
 Jade Jagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born October 21, 1971 in Paris, France) is the only child of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and his former wife Bianca Jagger.
After her parents’ divorce in 1980, Jade spent most of her time living in Manhattan with her jet-set mother and was often dropped off at the Factory to be babysat by Bianca’s friend, the pop artist Andy Warhol.
Jade attended the Spence School in Manhattan for a few years before being shipped off at age 14 to the all-girls boarding school St. Mary’s, in Calne England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jade_Jagger   (222 words)

  
 The Blog | Bianca Jagger: Arbitrary Justice | The Huffington Post
Bianca Jagger is The Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and a Member of the Executive Director's Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA
It is essential that we have people like Bianca Jagger who remind us of this inequity and that we must change our laws to guarantee that the death penalty is applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion.
Val, Al Capone (wherever he is) must be wondering where Bianca Jagger, et al were when he needed their help to escape railroading by the government.
www.huffingtonpost.com /bianca-jagger/arbitrary-justice_b_12010.html   (5592 words)

  
 Bush re-election would threaten world peace, says Bianca Jagger
Jagger, who is a goodwill ambassador for the Council of Europe, said she appealed in 2000 to the former Texas governor to block the execution of a man who was imprisoned when he was 17-years-old.
Bianca's claim to fame is she was a rock groupie.
Freeperville, USA Today Freeper Lafroste declared that Bianca Jagger was a "Noisome Twit" lending strong credence to the notion that the aging gold digger truely has nothing to add to any contemporary discussions on any issues of any signifigance.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1237175/posts   (2190 words)

  
 BBC News | SHOWBIZ | Bianca Jagger heads Aids campaign
Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stone Mick, is fronting a campaign to help those suffering from Aids in Africa, telling of a "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions".
And she is now trying to bring attention to the subject as part of Christian Aid week.
Jagger has also been prominent in campaigns against the death penalty in America and for human rights in the Balkans.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1330181.stm   (349 words)

  
 Dar Al Hayat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger won this year's Alternative Nobel prize, along with two Indian religious scholars, an Argentine scientist, and a Russian human rights group, organizers said today.
Jagger, a former model once married to rock legend Mick Jagger, won a Right Livelihood Award for showing how a celebrity can help the disadvantaged, organizers said.
Although Jagger spent years as one of New York's high-flying glitterati, von Uexkull defended giving her the cash prize for her years of work with causes from environmental protection to fighting the death penalty in the United States.
english.daralhayat.com /metro/09-2004/Article-20040920-1c1d9243-c0a8-01ed-0029-df8a65ff86ad/story.html   (720 words)

  
 Carter to pen anti-Bush book - More Bianca Jagger mold drama - Vogue's druggie past
Bianca Jagger’s apartment may be decaying at a slightly faster rate than the social cachet that accompanied her divorce settlement.
A spy reports that Jagger recently waltzed into Cipriani downtown for lunch with Manolo Blahnik wearing a gas mask (is that Chanel or Vuitton, darling?) and complaining about her moldy digs.
Jagger, who’s been living in a hotel, didn’t get much sympathy from Blahnik until she mentioned her ruined Halston gowns.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/n_9590   (961 words)

  
 Art for Amnesty :: Amnesty International :: Bianca Jagger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jagger's other campaign work has included highlighting the US-sponsored military interventions in Central America in the 1980s, speaking out on behalf of indigenous populations in Latin America, working for the families and survivors of the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, and battling for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States.
Jagger has been awarded for her work by the United Nations and during her campaigns has testified before the Helsinki Commission on Human Rights, the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the British and European parliaments.
In addition to her various campaigning, Jagger has written articles for the opinion pages of many prominent newspapers such as The New York Times, the Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, and Liberation.
www.artforamnesty.org /view_artist.php?id=42   (229 words)

  
 Excite - Celebrity Gossip - New York Post
A SURVIVOR of a suicide bombing cursed out Bianca Jagger Monday night during a dinner party after the self-styled "human-rights activist" and her friends told him, "American soldiers are raping and killing women and children around the globe."
Baxter continued: "Then [Jagger and pals] start talking about Abu Ghraib and how American soldiers are raping and killing women and children around the globe and that's when I said, '[Bleep] you.
But Jacob Hopkins, one of Jagger's Palm Springs pals who was at the dinner, said he could not "recall" Jagger saying those things, and added: "We were having a political discussion where she may have said that certain countries invaded Iraq because perhaps of natural resources.
entertainment.excite.com /celebgossip/pgsix/id/09_01_2005_1.html   (376 words)

  
 Bianca Jagger confronts ChevronTexaco about Ecuadorean health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jagger -- a former model who became an habitue of the 1970s party scene during her eight-year marriage to rock-and-roll star Mick Jagger -- was one of several critics who faced off with ChevronTexaco Chairman David O'Reilly during the San Ramon-based company's annual shareholders meeting.
Echoing the allegations in a lawsuit currently on trial in Ecuador, Jagger accused ChevronTexaco of turning its back on Amazon Indians who are dying from cancer and other lethal health problems caused by decades of oil drilling in the Amazon jungle.
In an interview after the meeting, Jagger said she was "stunned and disappointed by Mr.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/28/financial1840EDT0146.DTL   (709 words)

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