Jane Fonda, 85, says she plans to continue climate protests: 'It’s all hands on deck right now'
14.05.2023 - 01:37
/ foxnews.com
Jane Fonda has no plans to hang up her bullhorn anytime soon. "I don’t know how you could not," she said earlier this week regarding protests for climate advocacy. "I have grandchildren.
I love animals, I love nature. We’re going to destroy it all if we don’t. "It’s all hands on deck right now, it’s urgent, urgent and everyone has to join in right now," the "Book Club" actress told the New York Post this week at the Manhattan premiere of the sequel, "The Next Chapter." Fonda infamously protested the Vietnam War when she was young, earning herself the derogatory nickname "Hanoi Jane" after she was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi in 1972.
In her 2005 memoir, Fonda said she didn’t think about the implications of where she was sitting in the moment, then immediately after pleaded that the photos not be published. "As I start to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what has just happened hits me. Oh, my God.
It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. planes!" she wrote at the time. "It is possible that the Vietnamese had it all planned. I will never know.
If they did, can I really blame them? The buck stops here. If I was used, I allowed it to happen. It was my mistake, and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it." In 2018, she reflected once again on the incident during the Television Critics Associations Summer Press Tour.
"I am proud I went to Vietnam when I did. I am so sorry that I was thoughtless enough to sit down on that gun at that time and the message that that sends to the guys who were there and their families. It’s just horrible for me to think of that," she said. Fonda, now 85, continues to rally for progressive causes,
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