Jane Fonda

Well, I think we need everything.

You have to look at what's strategic right now.

You know, protests are important because they force us to see, oh, we're not

a minority.

We really, there's a lot of us.

Somebody described protesting as flossing the movement.

It's important for that reason.

But when you have someone in office on the federal level who can be pressured, then protests are really important.

Right now, they're not going to change anything except make us feel good.

So, you know, they're important.

Because what we're facing has never happened here, at least to white people.

We're facing an authoritarian regime who's broken through for the first time in American history to every sector of our government.

And the theory of change right now is all governments, democratic or fascistic, are held up by pillars of support.

And if the pillars of support become weakened, the regime is weakened.

Pillars like the military, like the financial, like art, professionals, et cetera, and so forth.

It's starting, but what is not visible, it's like the rezone underground, is organizing is happening all across the country in all the pillars.

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.