ALICIA KEYS UNDER ATTACK

She's always had a squeaky-clean image but Alicia Keys has upset activists worldwide by taking cash to appear in adverts for the World Gold Council and Robert Coin. The No Dirty Gold campaign is puzzled how she sees endorsing the industry fits with her professed humanitarian ideals:

"Alicia Keys' fans are well aware of her commitment to bettering the lives of Africa's poorest people," Keith Slack, senior policy advisor at Oxfam America, said in a statement. "But, gold, as it is currently produced, comes at the expense of poor communities who risk being displaced or losing their only source of clean drinking water because of dirty mining practices."

... which we think is a polite way of saying "funny how your concern runs out when someone offers cash for an advert."

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