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Fonda\u2019s new iteration already has the support of more than 550 boldface including Barbra Streisand<\/a>, Kerry Washginton, Natalie Portman<\/a>, Aaron Sorkin<\/a>, Spike Lee<\/a>, Viola Davis<\/a>, Pedro Pascal<\/a>, Gracie Abrams<\/a>, Ben Stiller<\/a>, Whoopi Goldberg<\/a>, Sean Penn<\/a>, John Legend<\/a>, Julianne Moore<\/a>, Janelle Monae<\/a>, Issa Rae<\/a>, Adam McKay<\/a>, Julia Louis-Dreyfus<\/a>, Ethan Hawke<\/a>, Quinta Brunson<\/a>, Judd Apatow<\/a>, Billie Eillish, Anjelica Huston<\/a>, Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/a>, Helen Mirren<\/a>, Patty Jenkins<\/a>, Damon Lindelof<\/a>, Fran Drescher<\/a> and Ted Danson<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n Find the full list of signees here.<\/p>\n In its first statement, released today, the Committee writes, \u201cThis Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jane Fonda is relaunching the Committee for the First Amendment, the McCarthy-era committee founded by her father Henry Fonda with such stars as Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to protect against attacks on free speech. Fonda\u2019s new iteration already has the support of more than 550 boldface including Barbra Streisand, Kerry Washginton, Natalie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2062504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jane-Fonda-Relaunches-McCarthy-Era-Committee-For-The-First-Amendment-With.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062506,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062504\/revisions\/2062506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}