Actress and activist Jane Fonda has coined a new slogan for her Hollywood “resistance” group — and it just so happens to share its initials with cable news giant CNN.
Fonda joined CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday to promote the newly relaunched Committee for the First Amendment — a group that was first formed in the 1940s as a backstop against McCarthy-era blacklists in the entertainment industry. Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda’s late father, was one of the group’s original members.
“No president has ever sent troops into the Democratic cities across the country saying full force,” Fonda said. “No president, as far as I know, has tried to control the Federal Reserve, the central bank. He is amassing power in a way that will destroy our democracy. And so we‘re going to stand up. We‘re creatives. We‘re storytellers. We can do it creatively. We can have a good time while we do it.”
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“Our statement is, ‘When they come for one of us, they come for all of us’ — Oh! I thought of this last night,” Fonda said. “We’re going to engage in Creative Non-violent Non-cooperation. CNN.”
“We’ll take it,” Bash replied.
“Good, I knew you would,” Fonda added, and they both laughed.
The actress confirmed that she had bigger plans in the works, saying that she also planned to create a PAC and encourage like-minded candidates to run for office.
“We‘re going to have a good group, and we‘re going to have fun doing it,” Fonda said. “But I also have a PAC, a climate PAC that elects people all over the country because I don‘t feel that our leaders are doing what they need to do. And if you can‘t change the people, change the people. That‘s what we‘re doing,” she said.
The group, according to its website, has already ballooned into the hundreds — from show-runners and directors to A-list actors and musicians — all of whom who are ready to “stand together in defense of our constitutional rights.”
