Posted on 10/03/2025 11:43:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s.
Jane Fonda and hundreds of members of the entertainment industry have revived the Committee for the First Amendment, a free-expression group that was originally formed by Hollywood stars including her father, Henry Fonda, during the McCarthy era.
The original group was formed in 1947 to oppose the work of the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose investigations into the film industry led to the blacklist of actors, writers and directors who were suspected of Communist sympathies. The original Committee for the First Amendment included Mr. Fonda, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and others who rallied to defend free expression.
In announcing the revival of the group, Ms. Fonda and the other new members recalled the “dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs” and warned that “those forces have returned.”
“The federal government is once again engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia, and the entertainment industry,” they said in a statement, which was signed by Ms. Fonda, Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and more than 800 others.
In a video posted on her social media account Wednesday night, Ms. Fonda, 87, said that she was heartened by the many people who had reached out seeking to be added to the committee. Still, she said, “We’re not looking to build an organization. We’re looking to grow a movement.”
She called for “creative, nonviolent noncooperation” and held up, as one example, the move by some to cancel their Disney+ subscriptions after the late-night host Jimmy Kimmel....
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Will she be hugging an antiaircraft gun operated by Communists who shoot down and kill American pilots?
Of course she did this, Hank was a commie, and dotta Janie is one too. The House Un-American committee was an important idea. The Left had already infiltrated and planted the the seeds of Antifa, BLM and the Muslim infiltration.
A group of people who love the first amendment when it benefits them but want it suppressed when it works against them.
Spike Lee and Pedro Pascal? wow I can’t think of two worse people to be a part of your “first amendment” group.
What would you like to say that you can’t already say?
Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal
The 3 stooges.
I thought she died?
That settles it. She’s now senile.
I want to ask her if she supports a baker or photographer who objects to providing service to homosexuals? Was she supporting Gina Carano who was fired by Disney for her free speech?
Hollywood hags. Ignore
My bladder awaits the day…
Jane Fonda and hundreds of members of the entertainment industry , the biggest Airheads there are ,LOL
LOCK HER UP!
Eleanor Roosevelt said that Communists were just liberals in a hurry.
A shit-pile of has beens looking for some attention.
A very candid and astute assessment.
She should have never made it home from Vietnam
These are the same people who openly attacked people for what they claimed was "hate speech". They also claimed that they were justified in attacking people who "triggered them" with political beliefs. Even asking questions was persecuted by these free thinkers.
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