Jane Fonda, Still Fighting for the Earth at 87

September 15, 2024 12:26 PM

Jane Fonda on Jimmy Kimmel, Sept 11, 2024 After a short exchange about Kamala Harris and the Orange Man (her words), she makes a compelling and immediate case for really waking up to the climate crisis.

“When we vote for a president we are not marrying them.”
“We cannot afford to lose four more years to the climate crisis.”
Jane Fonda Climate Pac

Jane Fonda on Lovett or Leave It, Sept 15, 2024

She is proudly 87. It is amazing. I so wish I could afford a fraction of the help she’s had to look so vibrant! And the hair! You have to have people to help you with these things.
But what a life she’s had.

PLEASE NOTE: This was not intended as a comprehensive Jane Fonda post.

posted by Glinn (7 comments total)

I think I buried the lede. I hadn’t watched the John Lovett (I recently started listening to Pod Save America, finally) interview, I just added it because it was recent and covered the same topics, and figured I would watch it next. Which I am. What I did not expect: “I thought you were a different John Lovett… (but she says she is pleasantly surprised). Two smart people giving each other shit, it is hilarious.
posted by Glinn at 12:38 PM on September 15 [2 favorites]

I love Jane Fonda’s earnestness and passion. To still care about big things at 87 is cool AF.
posted by cotton dress sock at 1:02 PM on September 15 [11 favorites]

Jane Fonda interviewed a friend of mine, a woman who is a prominent activist in climate change, in a livestreamed interview on her website a few years ago.

At one point, Fonda was praising her and her work, and prefaced it with, "As I look at your beautiful face..."

As soon as it ended, I texted her: "JANE FONDA SAID YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FACE"

I'm not sure how my friend is still with us. If Jane Fonda -- Jane Fonda, people! -- said something like to me, I think my heart would have exploded right on the spot.
posted by martin q blank at 3:47 PM on September 15 [5 favorites]

I've seen Jane Fonda show up at tiny little protest marches around LA. That lady walks the walk!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 4:06 PM on September 15 [6 favorites]

Streets of LA indeed. Fonda is a real one.

Jane Fonda joins activists, fishermen in protesting New Orleans gas conference

“Tell me, which one is the building with all the devil’s men?” Jane Fonda asked into the microphone, speaking to a crowd of activists outside the New Orleans Convention Center on Friday, Jan. 19.
posted by eustatic at 8:09 PM on September 15 [1 favorite]

That seems like rhetoric, when you see these LNG terminals on fire, you know, Bladerunner didn't show half of it
posted by eustatic at 8:11 PM on September 15 [1 favorite]

Since at least the 90s, when as Sir Mix A Lot poignantly observed, she had no motor in the back of her (presumably pedal-powered) Honda.
posted by aspersioncast at 8:55 AM on September 16