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Soldiers returning home without job opportunities, a failing economic situation and people fatally sick without health care or hope – these were a few reasons Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker decided to travel across the country and campaign for the upcoming election.

Whitaker, who won a 2007 Academy Award for best actor in “The Last King of Scotland,” spoke to a crowd of UNF students, faculty and staff Sept. 26 on the Green, supporting Sen. Barack Obama and urging students to vote and grab their friends to join them at the polls.

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