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DownloadJane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat
“We keep growing,” Jane Fonda said of the number of viewers of the Fire Drill Fridays video series with Greenpeace. “It was 100,000, it was 300,000, 400,000, now 600,000.” She has guests, including Mary Trump, who offered insights into the president’s climate denialism. And she has the new book, offering lots of helpful tips to the ecologically challenged. “Eat less fish!”
50 Years of Fighting: Jane Fonda talks activism with rising star Jerome Foster II
The climate strikes took all the people that were feeling that mourning, and feeling that grief, and told them, “Here’s a way to just go out and show people that there are a lot of people who care about this.”
Jane Fonda brings back her ’80s workout moves for a good cause
“There’s a climate crisis that’s a real emergency, and so whether you’re on your couch or your yoga mat, will you join me for the virtual Fire Drill Fridays?” – Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda Won’t Stop Protesting — Even During a Pandemic
Jane Fonda has a word for those who doubt the efficacy of celebrity activists: Poppycock. Undeterred by stay-at-home restrictions intended to combat the coronavirus pandemic, she is pivoting from physical protests to virtual ones: She and Greenpeace will conduct their first virtual Fire Drill Friday tomorrow.
Jane Fonda Will Not Stop Rallying For the Planet
“When you’re famous, you have this incredible potential platform, but how do you use it?” Jane Fonda says. And then she realized, “I have to put myself on the line.”
Jane Fonda Debuts “Fire Drill Fridays” in L.A. With Joaquin Phoenix, Norman Lear
“I started to meet with the activists here in California and realized this is the place to be,” Jane Fonda told THR. “California is the fifth-largest economy in the world and it’s a major oil-producing state, so what happens here can affect not just the rest of the country, but the rest of the world.”
Jane Fonda’s ‘Fire Drill Fridays’: A Timeline of Her Climate Change Protests and Multiple Arrests
“The team and I decided at the very beginning that we should all try to wear something red. I racked my brain — I didn’t have anything red. I don’t usually wear red. So I decided that the last article of clothing that I will ever buy is a red coat.” – Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda brings climate change protests to Los Angeles
“Oil rules in California. It’s very hard for politicians to stand up to Big Oil. But that’s where leaders come from.” – Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda marches on Capitol Hill in finale ‘Fire Drill Friday’ protest
“This is a crisis unlike anything that has faced humankind,” Jane Fonda told ABC News Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks. “The reason that I’m here every Friday, with “Fire Drill Fridays,” is because I think every single human being has to say, ‘What can I do?'”
Jane Fonda released from jail after fifth arrest at a D.C. climate change protest
“You may generously say that you came to celebrate my birthday with me in this wonderful activist context, which has gained so much traction — more than I ever imagined — and I appreciate this. But I think we are all here today because we know what lies ahead,” Jane Fonda told the crowd. “The Earth needs an army.”