Mark Ruffalo's appearance at a panel about environmental law canceled over Palestine support
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Mark Ruffalo was set to speak at MTMP, a conference for lawyers and their paralegals to discuss the ins and outs of class action lawsuits, etc.
The event's organizers sent out a statement to the attendees this week saying Mark had been invited to speak at the conference after playing an environmental activist/attorney in the movie "Dark Waters" back in 2019 -- which touched on a lot of the things they already do in the real world ... so they wanted to have him show up and speak to the same issues.
Ruffalo, an environmental activist himself, was set to be a big-time guest for the conference, but the event said this was before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and more importantly, before Ruffalo's very public support of Palestine.
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He also donned a pin representing Artists Call for Ceasefire Now.
The organizers of the MTMP conference say they didn't want the event to be overshadowed by the war in the Middle East. "We understand that the Israeli-Hamas war is a critically important issue to most of our MTMP family. The feelings we all have deserve to be discussed. However, I do not want the good meaning of our conference to get consumed by that discussion." Full statement below.
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