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appalachiablue

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Sun Nov 3, 2019, 04:35 PM Nov 2019

Actress And Climate Change Dissident Jane Fonda Gets Arrested- Every Week

Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2019, 07:51 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: France24

Hollywood royalty Jane Fonda has a plan to save the planet and it is quite an unusual one for an 81-year-old: Fonda wants to get arrested every Friday. Fonda has already been arrested on the last four Fridays and she says she is ready to be arrested "again and again" at least until mid-January, because after that, she is due in Hollywood to work on the next season of her award-winning Netflix series "Grace and Frankie".

Speaking in a video posted by Greenpeace on Friday, Fonda said "I've moved from California to [Washington] DC to engage in Fire Drill Fridays. This is an action every Friday to focus on climate change. We look at a different aspect of climate change every week, and today it is women and climate. Last week, it was oceans and climate.

Every Friday, Fonda puts on her distinctive red coat and gets ready for her Fire Drill. The instructions are to wear something red, carry signs and, if you are planning on risking arrest, to bring a valid, state-issued photo ID along with $50 cash. They add that they will have cash available if a protester cannot cover this.

Last week along with a growing number of fellow activists, Fonda entered the US Senate building. There they sat on the floor chanting in a building where no demonstrations are permitted and many are arrested...

Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/20191103-actress-and-climate-change-dissident-jane-fonda-gets-arrested-%E2%80%93-every-week



Fonda's is a peaceful protest and she offers her wrists up to officers, who cuff her and put her in the back of a wagon, along with fellow protesters..Fonda said, "I'm not nervous because I've been arrested before." "I'm doing this because I recognise we are in the middle of a terrible crisis and we don't have a lot of time. We have 11 years to try to turn this around. If we don't, the fabric of the global environment will begin to unravel and there will be nothing we can do to change it."

She has been a political protestor and a vocal feminist for more than 50 years. In 1969, Fonda supported the occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians. Iin 1970, she decided she could not stay quiet about the Vietnam War.. in 1972, Fonda went to Hanoi, Vietnam, and that photograph was taken. Beautiful young Jane Fonda clapping and smiling as she sat amongst Viet Cong soldiers on an anti-aircraft gun. Fonda apologised to US veterans for this infamous photograph as recent as last year.

- Good interview with Jane about Climate Change on 'All Things Considered,' NPR, Nov. 1, 2019. 8 mins.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775509380/jane-fonda-continues-fire-drill-fridays-to-protest-lack-of-action-on-climate-cha

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Actress And Climate Change Dissident Jane Fonda Gets Arrested- Every Week (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 2019 OP
She is a great actress. pwb Nov 2019 #1
Great artist and activist. I was glad to see this longer piece on her appalachiablue Nov 2019 #2
Are her protests arrests at least being reported on MSNBC? ArizonaLib Nov 2019 #3
I rarely watch much these days but I doubt it. Some coverage appalachiablue Nov 2019 #4
Thanks - I just checked MSNBC's website and couldn't find it ArizonaLib Nov 2019 #5
One of the reasons we need more sane, honest broadcasting appalachiablue Nov 2019 #6
Yes ArizonaLib Nov 2019 #7

appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
2. Great artist and activist. I was glad to see this longer piece on her
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 04:42 PM
Nov 2019

in the French press. Yes, Peter passed this year. Jane has been through so much yet she perseveres.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
3. Are her protests arrests at least being reported on MSNBC?
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 06:33 PM
Nov 2019

One of her first ones, I texted to my mom after reading about it here on DU and she hadn't seen it yet on MSNBC. I won't watch any cable news even though we get CNN via Sling. I believe MSNBC to be a liberal pacifier instead of informational - Rachel has never been free to report on everything she wants to. I don't care if anyone else watches whatever they want - it is none of my business. Just asking if anyone knows off hand.

appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
4. I rarely watch much these days but I doubt it. Some coverage
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 06:38 PM
Nov 2019

can be narrow due to mgmt. views I've heard. A good question.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
5. Thanks - I just checked MSNBC's website and couldn't find it
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 06:41 PM
Nov 2019

if it is there. I hate this. When a dozen triangle hat wearing idiots with guns show up across the Potomac, it is all over the place. People getting arrest for 'you name it' showing up everywhere except for liberal protests. Drives me crazy.

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