Jane Fonda
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709 appearances
7 recordings
7 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Jane Fonda’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that should give us great hope.
Also, there's been a major overstepping of red lines, and people are really starting to
wake up to what's happening, which leads me to the second.
I said two crises, climate, and then there's the democracy crisis that we're talking about, this coming to power of an authoritarian regime.
They have to be solved together, these two crises.
You can't have a stable democracy without a stable climate, and you can't have a stable climate unless you have a democracy.
I mean, what we're seeing now is worse and worse things happening vis-a-vis the climate.
Right.
So when I won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Screen Actors Guild, I did some research to find out what kind of resistance has been in existence in the entertainment industry.
And I was reminded that in the late 40s and early 50s, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and then later McCarthy, were destroying lives and careers in Hollywood.
Blaming people for, or accusing people of being friendly to communists, or anyway.
Hollywood created the Committee for the First Amendment.
My dad was a part of it.
And so in October, I thought, now's the time to recreate this.
Because, you know, if you look at the history of authoritarianism, they always first go for art.
They go after art and education.
Because...
Those are the sectors that affect how people feel, how they think.
We're the storytellers.
We can control the narrative to a large extent.
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