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2019-10-12 Home Front: Culture Wars
Jane Fonda arrested protesting climate change in Washington
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ Jane Fonda was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Friday while peacefully protesting climate change.

The actress and activist was handcuffed on the east side steps and escorted into a police vehicle. Video of the arrest circulated online.

Fonda was one of 16 people arrested for unlawfully protesting and was charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding." She was released hours later.

On Thursday, the actress vowed to join Friday protests at the Capitol "inspired and emboldened by the incredible movement our youth have created."

Ira Arlook, of the group Fire Drill Fridays, confirmed that Fonda was arrested at the inaugural demonstration Friday.

Before her arrest, Fonda in a speech called climate change "a collective crisis that demands collective action now."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-12 02:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 She's still alive?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-12 05:07||   2019-10-12 05:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Apparently, still adding her CO2 to the overheated climate.
Posted by Bobby 2019-10-12 07:43||   2019-10-12 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Aren't her 15 minutes up yet?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-12 10:59||   2019-10-12 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Feed her to the polar bears.
Posted by Thomogum Omereng5658 2019-10-12 11:04||   2019-10-12 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 So there weren't any North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners around to protect her? How soon they forget.
Posted by Matt  2019-10-12 11:49||   2019-10-12 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Ms Fonda was granted a four month hiatus from the filming of season 6 of the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” just so she could go to Washington and get arrested every Friday. If, during the rest of the week, she quietly gets a little more work done, no need to say anything specific about her ageless beauty.

Set up the standing headline as the rich old lady indulges herself.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-12 13:05||   2019-10-12 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 JANE FONDA ARRESTED. A pause.
On further reflection, guffaws:
I must really be ancient
To think of Ms. Jane, "Ain't
She got a morality clause?"
Posted by Snoling Smiter of the Brontosaurs2338 2019-10-12 14:29||   2019-10-12 14:29|| Front Page Top

#8  no need to say anything specific about her ageless beauty.

*SNORT*

Speaking of Netflix, is there something going on there? I canceled my account awhile back - more for time reasons than their changing content - but lately they've been bugging me repeatedly to come back.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-12 15:19||   2019-10-12 15:19|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Finally facing real, soon to be intense, competition from Disney. Go short
Posted by Lex 2019-10-12 16:02||   2019-10-12 16:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Netflix, is there something going on there?

Competition with Amazon eating into their endless expansion, perhaps.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-12 16:53||   2019-10-12 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 NFLX's golden days are over. Can't get Disney content on the cheap anymore: Disney will eat up NFLX's margins, from both top- and bottom line.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-12 17:10||   2019-10-12 17:10|| Front Page Top










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