Sean Penn leaves a hardware store carrying paint supplies wearing a striped button-down in Malibu
Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn was seen leaving a hardware store carrying an array of paint supplies on Saturday afternoon in Malibu.
The 60-year-old actor cut a casual figure in a striped button-down, which had the name of the rock band Pearl Jam embroidered on the front, and light-wash jeans.
He also wore a black face mask with his non-profit organization CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort)’s logo on the front and a pair of white sneakers.
Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn was seen leaving a hardware store carrying an array of paint supplies on Saturday afternoon in Malibu
His organization has tested millions for COVID-19 and has vaccinated more than tens of thousands, ‘without any federal or LA County funding,’ according to Penn’s Twitter in late January.
Penn serves as the cofounder of CORE, which heads the COVID-19 vaccination effort at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, which was the subject of a February 3rd article in the New York Times.
In January, the Mystic River star penned a scathing 2,000-word email to his staff after complaints surfaced online regarding working conditions at a local vaccination site.
The 60-year-old actor cut a casual figure in a striped button-down, which had the name of the rock band Pearl Jam embroidered on the front, and light-wash jeans
In that article, online complaints from two Core staffers originally appeared in which they detailed 18-hour workdays and six-day work weeks, along with lamentations regarding the ‘same old lettuce wraps’ for lunch every day.
In response, the actor allegedly lashed out in an email suggesting that those staffers who were ‘predisposed to a culture of complaint’ and ‘broad-based cyber whining’ should quit, as per the Los Angeles Times.
In the email, Penn accused those who commented of engaging in a ‘broad betrayal of all’ and described the ‘highly visible’ comments as ‘shameful entries’ and ‘obscene critiques’.
In a recent NYT article: Online complaints from two Core staffers originally appeared in which they detailed 18-hour workdays and six-day work weeks along with other issues
The angry email described the comments left by staffers as a ‘dissent in the low-hanging fruit of cyberspace’.
‘To whoever authored these, understand that in every cell of my body is a vitriol for the way your actions reflect so harmfully upon your brothers and sisters in arms. I have taken counsel and here will refrain from using the words with which I would otherwise choose to describe the character of your actions,’ the email read.
Penn added that CORE has ‘strong complaint procedures’ for staff and that anyone who was predisposed to complaining online should quit.
‘Lucky man’: Penn himself received the COVID-19 vaccine last month because he and his charity staff are helping administer the doses
‘Quit for CORE. Quit for your colleagues who won’t quit. Quit for your fellow human beings who deeply recognize that this is a moment in time. A moment of service that we must all embody sometimes to the point of collapse,’ he wrote.
Penn himself received the COVID-19 vaccine in January because he and his charity staff are helping administer the doses.
The vaccine site is run by the city of Los Angeles in partnership with the LA Fire Department, the Dodgers, Curative and Penn’s nonprofit Core.