Posted on 10/07/2024 6:03:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Imagine hearing a knock on your door and opening it to find actor Jane Fonda campaigning for a local election candidate.
That's how the 86-year-old actor and activist is spending her time this election season. She's campaigning around the country for local candidates who support action on climate change, building on her years of climate-related protests.
Fonda told CBS News that the campaigning work felt so necessary that she told her agent she wouldn't be taking any acting jobs this year, to make sure she had time to canvass.
"This year I said to my agent 'I'm sorry, I can't work.' When the election is happening that's going to determine the future, I couldn't do it," Fonda, a two-time Academy Award winner, explained. "I couldn't do it. Next year I'll do it."
Fonda has hand-picked over 130 lower-level candidates who will stand up to the fossil fuel industry using her political action committee, JanePAC.
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"This is the last election that can have a major effect on climate," Fonda said.
1005-satmo-fondaclimate-schecter-3244332-640x360.jpg Jane Fonda (L) with California State Assembly District 26 candidate Tara Sreekrishnan (R) and campaign staff. CBS Saturday Morning Supporting "climate champions"
Many of the candidates Fonda is supporting are running for under-the-radar offices like Portland City Council or a school board seat in Virginia. She's already raised $4 million to help those candidates get elected.
"That low-level candidate could, first of all, could rise up and become governor of the state. You want to groom them to rise into leadership positions as climate champions," Fonda said. "If we have the right people elected to office, we can do it."
It's far from the first time Fonda has stepped into the world of activism. In 1972, she made a controversial visit to Vietnam opposing the war, and in the 1990s, she marched to support women's reproductive rights.
In 2019, she launched her Fire Drill Fridays, a protest series inspired by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, to draw attention to global warming. She was arrested five times during those protests, even spending her 82nd birthday behind bars.
"It was aimed not at the government. It was aimed at the great unasked," Fonda said of that protest series. "There's like 70% of Americans that are really concerned about the climate crisis, and when they're asked why they don't take action, they say, 'Well, nobody asked.'"
"You need people in the halls of power"
Now, Fonda has made the move from protest to politics. 62% of Americans think that politicians should do more to fight climate change, according to the Pew Research Center, many politicians on both sides of the aisle vote against legislative solutions. Her hope is that helping elect people who think differently will make a difference.
"Nonviolent civil disobedience and protests historically have changed history, but you need people in the halls of power with ears and a heart to hear the protests, to hear the demands," Fonda said.
Going door-to-door and working to raise money for the local candidates she supports has been "so fun," she said.
"It's a lot of work. Oh, it's so much fun. Ever since I'm doing 100% of what I'm capable (of) in confronting the climate crisis, I don't get depressed anymore," Fonda said. "I get angry, but I'm not depressed. Hope is a muscle. It's like the heart. It's a muscle, and you have to activate it to feel it."
Fonda said that the work of campaigning has helped her feel hopeful and fulfilled.
"I wouldn't be doing it if I wasn't hopeful," Fonda said. "Everybody needs meaning in their life. I'm old, so I think a lot about being on my deathbed and I know that when you're on your deathbed, you want to feel that it's been worthwhile."
I hope that hag never shows up on my doorstep.
So Fonda is filmed knocking on a door and the press informs the country.
That is one hell of a return, don’t ya think? It is a shame how political the MSM has become yet absolutely nothing is done about it.
If I see a Jane Trairor Fonda movie on, I turn it off. What a contemptible shred of human debris. She supporting and advocating for a hoax? Well, Communism is the world’s largest hoax so there’s that.
With my Trump’s signs out front on the lawn she will not be ringing my doorbell.
Off topic , But I see they call her an actor and not an actress.
I’ve been seeing more of that in recent years, where women are referred to as actors just as men are.
Makes you wonder , If everyone regardless of biological sex is an actor, Why are there separate awards for women? How can they justify the best actress awards?
Some people do want to merge them, or make a bunch more. In the U.K. they have taken away the awards specifically for females.
Would I get arrested for whipping it out and pissing on her mouth and in her eyes? It would be worth it.
I was told that after 2003, climate change would become rapid and irreversible. ‘We must act now ...’ Yeah. Always.
Fossil fool protests fossil fuel.
Some people never catch on to sarcasm.
She better not knock on the door of anyone who was a guest at the Hanoi Hilton.
I still watch VaChina syndrome its a good movie
Why yes the owner is home Miss, he’s out back by the cement pond.
As usual for Hanoi Jane.
I meant my comment in humour, as I am quite very well aware of how and why Ms. Fonda is not particularly popular in many circles (such as here). Yes for instance why her likeness was popular in men’s washrooms (urinal stickers in particular).
I guess Miss Fondle looks so bad now, they mistook her for a guy.
Does she have a mustache or something?
Too bad she wasn’t executed many years ago for treason. Might have made her a martyr, but at least she’d be a dead martyr and we wouldn’t have to listen to her or look at her.
>>Praying for a Vietnam veteran with a super bad temper to answer the door.<<
LOL! Hilarious!
Does she have a mustache or something?
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She looked good in a 1960’s movie with Anthony Perkins. Not sure of the movie name and it looked cheesy, but Jane was attractive.
My wife likes old black & white movies and I caught a few minutes as I was passing through.
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