Jane Fonda revives her dad’s First Amendment group, enlisting hundreds of supporters

Based on her personal and political past, Jane Fund Renated the activist group from the Cold War, which was supported by her father and winner of Oscar Henry Fund.

Jane Fund announced on Wednesday that she began the embodiment of the 21st century The first amendment committeeInitially formed in 1947 in response to a hearing in Congress, exploring the scriptwriters and directors in particular, the so-called “Hollywood ten” -s of their alleged communist ties. The signatures of the statement about the mission of the new organization include I drink FlorenceIN Sean PennIN Billy EarthIN Pedro Pascal and hundreds of others.

Wednesday news come after Brief Jimmy Kimmel suspension from ABC over his etheric comments after a conservative activist Charlie Kirk murder. President Trump There was among those who called for the dismissal of Kimmel, and the FCC chairman Brendan Carr also made statements criticizing Kimmel, calling for ABC to “take measures” and speaking in an interview: “We can make it a slight way or difficult way.”

“The federal government is again participating in a coordinated campaign for the silence of critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, the academic circles and the entertainment industry,” the first amendment committee partially said.

“We refuse to stand and let this happen. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are the integral rights of every American of all layers of society and political beliefs – regardless of how liberal or conservative you can be. The ability to criticize, ask, test and even mock what is fundamental in power for what America has always sought, ”the statement said.

Other well -known supporters from the list of more than 550 people are included Alissa MilanBarbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Julianna Moore, Lily TomlinMandy Patinkin, Melanie Griffith, Natalie Portman, Nicholas Cage, Olivia Wilde, Susan Sarandon, Viola Davis, Wopi Goldberg and Vainon Ryder.

Each funds Long history of activityWhether it’s the opposition Jane Fund against the War of Vietnam or the outstanding support of candidates from the Democratic Party of Henry Fund, including John F. Kennedy, for whom the senior fund appeared in the advertising of the campaign in 1960.

In recent years, Jane Fund has used her platform to attract attention Climate changeShe founded the field Jane Foundation Climate Pak In 2022, to help the “climate champions” in victory in the mayor, city council, state and presidential races.

“This is not only the environment,” she said to CBS News in September 2024. “It's about the whole planet.”

In 2019, She was arrested Five times during Fire drill FridayA A series of protest She began in Washington, the district of Colombia, which was developed to draw attention to global warming. The fund even spent the night of her 82nd birthday behind bars. The last time the fund spent a night in prison in 1970, when she was 32 years old, while in a speech protesting against the war in Vietnam.

Henry of the Fund, which died in 1982, joined the Committee of the First Amendment of 1947, along with such actors and directors as Humphrey Bogart, John Houston, Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra. Despite the fact that at that time it was widely published, the committee had a short and worried story. Bogart and others will turn out to be accused of communist sympathies and express a surprise when a handful of Hollywood dozens, including the scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, turned out to be members of the Communist Party at one time or another.

By the next year, Bogart published an essay in the journal PhotoPlay under the name “I am not a communist”, in which he admitted that “actors and actresses always go overboard things” and warn from the fact that they were “used as crazy commissions.” Trumbo and others in Hollywood ten will be imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with Congress, and they ended up among many who were blacklisted until the end of the 1950s and the latter.