Jane Fonda remains actively engaged in political activism at age 87, warning that the country is close to becoming fascist and urging nonviolent public protest. She criticized the Trump administration while accepting a lifetime achievement award and called for people to speak out and organize. Fonda endured death threats and violent harassment in the 1970s for opposing the Vietnam War. In the 1980s she used a best-selling workout video to fund political work. Fonda credits her father, Henry Fonda, with planting the seeds of social conscience and became politically active in her 30s after encounters with antiwar veterans in Paris.
This is not the time to go inward, We have to go out, we have to speak, we have to shout, we have to find nonviolent ways to avoid what's happening which we're very, very close to becoming fascist in this country.
We had smoke bombs thrown through our windows. We had our home ransacked. At its worst, we had to have somebody remotely turn our car on, in case it was a car bomb.
He laid the groundwork, Although I didn't become an activist until I was in my 30s, I view his films as fertilizer in the soil of my soul. It was there. I just needed to stir it up a little so the sprouts could grow.
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