At the 2025 SAG Awards, Jane Fonda, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, passionately called upon fellow actors to take action against the political challenges posed by the Trump administration. Despite facing audio issues, her message was clear: now is the moment for activism, drawing parallels with historical social movements. Fonda highlighted the strength of unions like SAG-AFTRA in fostering community and power among workers. She emphasized that empathy is central to their craft and urged the importance of understanding varied perspectives to successfully resist impending political threats.
"Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements? Like apartheid or our civil-rights movement or Stonewall, and asked yourself would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? We don't have to wonder anymore, because we are in our documentary moment. This is it, and it's not a rehearsal."
"I'm a big believer in unions. They have our backs, they bring us into community, and they give us power. Community means power. And this is really important right now, when workers' power is being attacked and community is being weakened."
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