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  Mike Farrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H (1975-83).
Farrell graduated from Hollywood High School, served in the United States Marine Corps, and worked at various jobs before his acting career.
Even before he was well-known, Farrell was an activist for many political and social causes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Farrell   (277 words)

  
 Mike Farrell: Art of Deception   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Farrell is quite convincing when he’s in character, as he has been since he propelled himself to the forefront of the Iraq war protest movement.
Farrell and Asner’s group, Committee of Concern for Central America, even went so far as to invite Nicaragua’s Communist Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega, for a nine-day publicity tour of American cities, the purpose of which, The Washington Post reported, was to counter the Reagan administration’s "disinformation" effort against Nicaragua’s communist government.
Farrell’s only public appearance of note in the months after the hurricane was a stint on 20/20 in which Farrell, who once co-chaired the New York-based Committee to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal, was summarily shellacked by ABC newsman Sam Donaldson.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=7042   (876 words)

  
 My Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mike Farrell was born December 24, 1970 in Groveville, NJ.
Mike was impressed with Don’s physique and queried him on the aspects of training to become a competitive bodybuilder.
Mike is currently training for the 2005 Musclemania World and Canadian Tour in hopes of winning his first pro event and has the desire to compete within the WNBF.
home.earthlink.net /~coastiebear/id6.html   (688 words)

  
 Mike Farrell’s Fanaticism - Michael P. Tremoglie - MensNewsDaily.com™
Mike Farrell is known as much for his zealous campaign against capital punishment as he is for his role in the TV series MASH.
Farrell declared to the Iowa legislators that, “In the Herrera case in 1992 the U.S. Supreme Court held that innocence was not sufficient justification to stop an execution.
Farrell is an advocate for a myriad of causes-including opposing war in Iraq.
mensnewsdaily.com /archive/t/tremoglie/03/tremoglie101903.htm   (870 words)

  
 2005 Western Slope Dinner Featur
Farrell's views on the death penalty and prison reform are not something that developed in the last couple of years.
Farrell was very "touched by their humanness, moved by the awareness that they were no different from you and me. They had done terrible things of course, but that wasn't the sum total of their existence.
Farrell's activities in the anti death penalty movement vary from organizing and supporting campaigns to save specific individuals, educating the public through radio and television interviews and debates, speaking, writing essays and newspaper editorials, meeting with state governors and/or government officials when appropriate, coordinating and organizing meetings and maintaining communication with other activists and organizations.
www.catholicfoundationdop.org /2005westernslope.htm   (2268 words)

  
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Mike Farrell was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on February 6, 1939.
Farrell also claimed that Hussein would eventually bend, without forceful prodding, to the same international dictates he had spent fully twelve years defying.
Farrell sits on the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, an NGO that has often condemned democratic Israel while turning a blind eye to the terrorist Palestinian Authority.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1571   (687 words)

  
 In the Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Actor and anti-death penalty activist Mike Farrell told students during a Nov. 30 visit to the College's Documentary Film and Social Justice class that executions are inhumane and racist and must be abolished.
Mike Farrell is president of the board of directors for Death Penalty Focus.
Farrell is president of the board of directors of Death Penalty Focus (www.deathpenalty.org), a nonprofit group dedicated to abolishing capital punishment through grassroots organizing, and co-chair of Human Rights Watch California.
www.msmc.la.edu /pages/1879.asp?id=12   (314 words)

  
 Activist/actor Mike Farrell to speak on human rights Sept. 9
Farrell long has been active with the American Civil Liberties Union, American Indian Movement, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Special Olympics, United Farm Workers Union and organizations concerned with animal welfare, the environment, child abuse, spousal abuse and veterans rights.
Farrell was a member of the board of advisers of the now-defunct Cult Awareness Network and is a founding board member of Peace Studies and of ATV, an inmate-developed alternatives-to-violence program at Augusta Correctional Center in Virginia.
As a host and narrator of documentaries, Farrell has talked about alcoholism, arms control, caring for the environment, children of divorce, child sexual abuse, the death penalty, and enriching the lives of the disabled.
www.news.uiuc.edu /NEWS/02/0829farrelllecture.html   (453 words)

  
 CellStar Announces Appointment of Veteran Industry Financial Executive Mike Farrell to Management Team
Farrell was instrumental in the turnaround of the division.
Farrell holds a MBA from DePaul University in Chicago, IL and a BS degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.
Farrell has served on the Board of Directors of the Village of Prairie Grove, IL and is a member of the Financial Executives International.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-17-2005/0004218997&EDATE=   (855 words)

  
 Sacramento News and Review July 08, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Farrell also contributed a couple of original songs to Sounds of Violence: “Fine Line” and “There Goes John.” The former is packed with blissfully blockheaded guitar freakouts; the latter begins with the kind of huge chords with which the Who used to open songs.
Farrell was born in San Mateo in 1968, but he pretty much grew up in South Sacramento near Florin Center, and he went to Hiram W. Johnson High School with a couple of guys who later became members of Tesla.
Farrell had gotten into a recovery program, New Bridge, in Berkeley, where Self was a counselor, and the band appeared to be making a serious go of it.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2004-07-08/cover.asp   (4139 words)

  
 Today's Underrated Stars! - Meet Mike Farrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mike Farrell is probably best known for his role of MASH surgeon, BJ Hunnicut.
He and Farrell, a longtime human-rights activist, were in El Salvador in 1985 after persuading the government there to allow Sanchez, a U.S. surgeon, to operate on Nidia Diaz, a female guerrilla leader who'd suffered a hand wound while being captured.
y contrast, Farrell's own father, Joe, a Hollywood movie studio carpenter, "was the disciplinarian," he says, "the figure who terrified me." When Mike, the second of four children, was a junior in high school, his father died of a heart attack at 50.
www.todaysunderratedstars.20m.com /MF/MF.html   (774 words)

  
 Anti-war celebrities: Mike Farrell (a chat session at USA Today)
Farrell, in your interview with the LA Times in 1999, you supported the war in Kosovo on record based on human right violations.
Mike Farrell: Human rights violations, despicable as they are, are not the reason Mr.
Mike Farrell: While I was in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, and from that point urged U.S. and UN involvement on a peacekeeping basis, I reluctantly supported Mr.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/854015/posts   (1706 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - CHAT
Most violent crime, including murder, is committed in the heat of the moment of rage when one is not thinking of consequences, therefore deterrence is simply an antiquated and fallacious justification for continuing capital punishment.
Farrell, in general, most people who oppose the death penalty under the guise of "right to life", support abortion...
Where I part company with those who presume to call themselves "right-to-lifers" is that I believe the issue of a termination of a pregnancy is a question that ought to be left up to a woman and her doctor.
www.courttv.com /talk/chat_transcripts/2001/0412deathpenalty_farrell.html   (2069 words)

  
 * Politically Incorrect: Mike Farrell = Idiot
Farrell is a certfied kook of the far left and it's not surprising that he demonstrated this on national TV.
Farrell is a fool and his appearances on shows like Politically Incorrect simply make it obvious to those who didn't already know this.
Old lefties like Mike Farrell may be surprised by the feedback his idiocies receive but in the final analysis, hardly anyone will really care much what he thinks, which is as it should be.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/575616/posts   (1543 words)

  
 Real Life Heros: Mike Farrell
Mike Farrell is the president of Death Penalty Focus, (http://www.deathpenalty.org) a group that is working towards the end of the death penalty through campaigning, and getting the word out about the cruelty of capital punishment, and the fact that there are alternatives.
Mike has appeared in documentaries dealing with drug abuse, alcoholism, illiteracy, arms control, rights of the handicapped, the death penalty, and on the political situation in Central America.
Mike has inspired people, informed many, and to me, is a picture perfect representation of a hero.
www.talkingpix.co.uk /InterviiewMikeFarrell2.html   (1837 words)

  
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More and more people are realizing that trucks could soon be driving past their homes and schools and churches, carrying a substance that's 240 times as radioactive as the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima.
But I want to make sure all Americans know that Yucca Mountain is a threat to their health and safety." Farrell said he is worried that nuclear waste can't be transported safely, and that trucks and trains carrying it will be vulnerable to terrorist attacks and accidents.
Farrell brought copies of an anti-Yucca Mountain letter with him to hand out to the Senators.
reid.senate.gov /record2.cfm?id=183335   (253 words)

  
 Tavis Smiley . Archive . Monday December 12th | PBS
Mike Farrell weighs in on the Stanley Tookie Williams death penalty case.
Mike Farrell is best known for his role on the long-running hit TV series M*A*S*H—a show for which he earned Emmy nods for writing and directing several episodes.
Farrell supports long-term efforts to end homelessness and hunger and was named Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees.
www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200512/20051212.html   (295 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Actor Mike Farrell on Politics and Hollywood: M*A*S*H Couldn't Be On TV Today
Mike Farrell, is most famous for his part as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in the popular TV-series MASH.
MIKE FARRELL: Well, I think it's cheapening the business in general, but it infuriates those of us who have a social conscience who say that you know, we as citizens -- forget artists -- as citizens have a right to protest and a right to demonstrate.
MIKE FARRELL: I think there's a terrible dumbing- down of the American consciousness, the drumbeat of uglyness and stupidity and sensationalism, and thoughtlessness and propaganda that is in these stations.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/06/25/1539209   (1868 words)

  
 Hannity & Colmes
FARRELL: But this business of shaking our missiles, and threatening an invasion, and alienating hundreds of millions of people unnecessarily is utterly inappropriate and in the wrong use of...
If you're going to say that, and that this is a continuation of a war that started then, are you then not saying that George Bush 41 didn't do the right thing when he...
I think in fact that there have been many suggestions made that there are incremental steps that could be taken through the international community to bring the same kind of pressure on Saddam Hussein...
pages.prodigy.net /sherylfan/scpost/hannity.html   (1682 words)

  
 Mike Farrell Online ~ articles and speeches by Farrell
General Statement by Mike Farrell about Stanley Tookie Williams, in response to the many questions and comments concerning the Court's decision to set an execution date.
Commentary by Mike Farrell, first appeared in the LA Times as "An Indecent Administration Rolls on", March 21, 2005
Farrell on his position concerning the US and Iraq.
www.mikefarrell.org /articles.html   (222 words)

  
 CNN.com - M*A*S*H star testifies for ex-governor - Feb 17, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mike Farrell appears as character witness at corruption trial
Farrell and Ryan both have been active in the movement to abolish the death penalty.
The actor flew in from Los Angeles to serve as a character witness for Ryan and said before leaving that he was frustrated by a ruling by the judge barring him from any mention of capital punishment.
www.cnn.com /rssclick/2006/LAW/02/17/farrell.ryan.ap/?section=cnn_law   (553 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Mike Farrell beats Hannity like a drum!
At the end, Hannity could only lamely tell Mike that this is the nation that beat the Nazis and the Fascists - and Farrell responded that the actions proposed by this Administration are not consistent with that history.
Mike Farell came across so well, and i can't help the chuckle about how this kind of show will backfire on the likes of faux!
Farrell WOULD NOT let him go on until he answered Farrell - Farrell even asked him to read it - Hannity couldn't find and finally "corrected" himself and said he couldn't find it.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID60/22114.html   (1043 words)

  
 Family Theater Productions - Mike Farrell received Gabriel Personal Achieveme ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
UNIVERSAL CITY — Actor, producer, director and humanitarian Mike Farrell accepted recently the U.S. Catholic communication association’s Gabriel Award for Personal Achievement, presented “in memory of Father Patrick Peyton, CSC,” in the name of many people on death row and in poverty-stricken areas whom he has touched and who has touched him.
“It is an honor to represent them publicly,” said Farrell who was honored equally for his professional achievements in the film industry and his personal commitment as a voice for the oppressed and forgotten.
Farrell portrayed Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt in the TV hit series M*A*S*H and is in his fifth year of portraying Dr. James Hanson on NBC’s Providence.
www.familytheater.org /news-news-display.php?iContentId=1463   (701 words)

  
 Moonbattery: Moonbat Mike Farrell and the Object of His Love
As for what limousine leftists like Mike Farrell deserve for making a cause out of this evil piece of scum, readers can come to their own conclusions.
Farrell was on there and I believe he responded to one of the hosts saying "He's a murderer!" with the refutation of "In your opinion."
Posted by: Anna at December 13, 2005 12:11 AM I'd like to know which moonbat came up with the idea of a cold blooded murderer writing children's books to demonstrate redemption while he never expresses remorse for his crimes.
www.moonbattery.com /archives/2005/12/moonbat_mike_fa.html   (1110 words)

  
 (DV) Bacher: Mike Farrell Urges California to Debate Moratorium on Executions
One argument given for the death penalty is that the victims “deserve closure.” However, Farrell argues that the death penalty only inflicts the suffering on another family, while never providing closure to the murder victim’s family.
Farrell had harsh words for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who refused to heed the pleas of Farrell and other human rights activists to grant clemency to Donald Beardslee, executed at San Quentin in January.
Farrell is urging the California Assembly and Senate to pass legislation this year placing a moratorium on executions.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Feb05/Bacher0209.htm   (922 words)

  
 Mike Farrell - Page 12 - Sean Hannity Discussion
If Mike Farrell had been killed by Tookie Williams, I'd bet he would feel differently.
Comparing the killing of a fetus to the killing of a murderer by the state requires one to presume that an unborn child is a human being, entitled to the same protection as a living, human being.
Farrell is in the same class as Michael Moore and Jeanne Garafallo !
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1243853#post1243853   (520 words)

  
 LP: Mike Farrell-Human Rights Watch ad in Daily Variety & actors forCalif.Drivers Lic.for illegal aliens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mike Farrell is also the co-chair of Human Rights Watch California.
DOBBS: Mike Farrell is one of the smartest guys not only in Hollywood, but anywhere in the country, as well as a talented fellow.
FARRELL: No, I think that many -- much of the attack on this kind of legislation and other kinds of legislation is based on racism.
www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=82792   (2335 words)

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