New York- 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 that the embodiment of the Committee of the 21st Century Committee for the first amendment, originally formed in 1947, in response to the hearing of Congress, directed against screenwriters and directors, in particular, the so-called “Hollywood ten”-and their alleged communist connections. The signatures of the statement about the mission of the new organization include I drink FlorenceIN Sean Penn,Billy EarthIN Pedro Pascal and hundreds of others.
Wednesday news come after Jimmy Kimmel ABC brief suspension on his etheric comments after a conservative activist Charlie Kirk murder. President Donald Trump There was among those who wanted Kimmel to be fired.
“The federal government is again participating in a coordinated campaign for the silence of critics in the government, the media, judicial power, academic circles and the entertainment industry,” the mission 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 the fact that in power is the basis for what America has always sought. ”
Each of the funds had a long history of activism, whether it was the opposition of Jane Fund for the war in Vietnam or outstanding support of Henry Funds of candidates from the Democratic Party, including John F. Kennedy, for whom the Senior Fund of the Fund Foundation appeared in the advertising of the campaign in 1960.
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 Bolle And Frank SinatraThe field despite the fact that at that time was widely published, the committee had a short and worried story. Bogart and others will be accused of communist sympathies and express a surprise when a handful of Hollywood dozens, including the scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, became members of the Communist Party at one or another.
By the next year, Bogart published an essay in the magazine PhotoPlay entitled “I am not a communist”, in which he admitted that “actors and actresses always go to combat things” and warn from the fact that they were used as crazy commercials. ” 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.
