Jane Fonda has two Best Actress Oscars (and five more nominations) to her name, but over the past five-plus decades, the Hollywood icon, 86, has become far better known — and sometimes excoriated — for her political activism. She’s protested the Vietnam War, fundraised for the Black Panthers, and stood with Native Americans fighting to reclaim their land. She’s condemned violence against women and advocated for reproductive rights. She’s been jailed, spat on, and cursed at. And she’s been undeterred. These days, it’s the climate crisis that consumes her. In 2019, Fonda co-founded Fire Drill Fridays, a recurring climate protest in Washington, D.C. (She was arrested five times during those actions.) In 2022, she founded the Jane Fonda Climate PAC to fund state and local candidates who refuse to accept money from fossil-fuel companies.
As the November election…
