Jane Fonda is sticking up for the planet, even if she ends up behind bars.
was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Friday for protesting climate change.star launched her"Fire Drill Fridays" civil disobedience campaign, demanding urgent action to battle climate change.
"She will be joined at every 'Fire Drill Friday' through at least mid-January by celebrities, scientists, economists and people from impacted communities who will speak and some of whom will invite arrest," a press release sent out early Friday stated."Inspired by the growing movement of young climate strikers, Fonda decided to move to the nation's capital for four months to take up their baton.
"Change is coming by design or by disaster," Fonda added."A Green New Deal that transitions off fossil fuels provides the design. They say it’s not realistic, that it’s Socialism. That's what they said about Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and we got Social Security and a middle class."Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 16 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol. All were charged with D.C.
According to Mike Valerio, a local White House reporter with CBS station WUSA who was on site, Fonda was planning to be arrested while protesting climate change political paralysis on Capitol Hill."She tells us she'll be here *every* Friday into 2020 — demonstrate, get arrested, repeat," he tweeted.Planning to be arrested while protesting climate change political paralysis.
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