Liev Schreiber on BlueCheck and Aid to Ukraine

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Actor, director, screenwriter, and producer Liev Schreiber co-founded the BlueCheck Ukraine initiative in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. BlueCheck Ukraine identifies, vets, and fast-tracks financial support to a diverse portfolio of NGOs that provide life-saving aid on the front lines. Since its launch in March 2022, BlueCheck has swiftly financed emergency evacuations, food distributions, medical aid, shelter, and cash assistance to operations on the ground. Alec Baldwin speaks to Schreiber about his Ukrainian roots and what drove him to start the non-profit, what he has witnessed in his visits to the war-torn region and his extraordinary acting work, from Shakespeare to the Emmy-nominated “Ray Donovan.”

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0:00.0	This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart Radio.
0:08.8	The war in Ukraine has been raging for nearly nine months now, but the conflict between
0:15.1	Ukraine and Russia has much deeper roots.
0:19.0	In late 2013 and early 2014, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets in protest
0:27.2	against their own governments pro-Russian policies.
0:31.1	The movement, known as the Maidan uprising, led to the deaths of more than 100 people
0:36.9	in Kiev and the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.
0:41.9	Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014, driving the region into an ongoing conflict
0:50.1	that would culminate in a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
0:57.4	My guest today, actor, writer and director, Liev Shriver, was just one of the millions of
1:03.4	Americans watching the war unfold on television until he decided to turn his grief into action.
1:11.6	Shriver is a co-founder of the nonprofit Blue Check Ukraine.
1:16.8	The group's mission is to fast-track financial resources directly to organizations providing
1:22.2	support and life-saving aid to Ukrainians on the front lines.
1:27.7	With such an impressive effort, I wanted to know more about Shriver's advocacy work.
1:33.1	What's an example of other things you were involved with?
1:36.1	Not much.
1:37.1	I did work with the feeding and harvest feeding America just because I like to take the kids
1:43.1	to on Thanksgiving.
1:44.4	We had this ritual where we'd go to the...
1:46.6	The soup kitchen.
1:47.6	The soup kitchen on Bowery.
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