#ben-cohen

#ben-cohen

Cohen, now 47, isn't on about rugby though. He's talking about pounding Home And Away star Axle Whitehead, clawing his way through dirt tunnels in the Marrakech desert, and being forced to submerge himself underwater, holding his breath for dear life. Which brings us to his caveat. "I'd wanna quit the entire time," he says, but yes, "I'd do it again in a heartbeat."

Early Wednesday morning, a 3,000-pound ice sculpture spelling the word "DEMOCRACY" was transported from a New York studio to the National Mall by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, known as LigoranoReese. To deliver the metaphor, the artists had partnered with Up In Arms, an organization started by Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, who is known as much for his activism as his ice cream.

What it had to do with is that Congress has been cutting money for Medicaid, health care for poor kids, and they're using the money they save doing that to bomb other poor kids in Gaza.