{"id":2063146,"date":"2025-10-01T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2063146"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:06:02","slug":"jane-fonda-revives-cold-war-era-free-speech-activist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jane-fonda-revives-cold-war-era-free-speech-activist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda revives Cold War-era free speech activist group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Drawing upon her personal and political past,\u00a0Jane Fonda\u00a0has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Fonda announced she had launched a 21st century incarnation of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally formed in 1947 in response to Congressional hearings aimed against screenwriters and directors \u2014 notably the so-called \u201cHollywood Ten\u201d \u2014 and their alleged Communist ties. Signers of the new organization&#8217;s mission statement include Florence Pugh, Sean Penn, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and hundreds of others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedcode\">\n<div class=\"keypointsbox\" style=\"text-align: left; width: 95%;\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era, originally backed by her father, Henry Fonda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wednesday, she announced the launch of a modern version of the Committee for the First Amendment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This group was initially formed in 1947 to support screenwriters and directors targeted for alleged Communist ties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The new mission statement is signed by Florence Pugh, Sean Penn, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and hundreds of others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Fondas have a long history of activism, with Jane opposing the Vietnam War and Henry supporting Democratic candidates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><b data-rte-class=\"rte-temp\"><span class=\"remove-embeded\"\/><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s news comes in the wake of\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s\u00a0brief suspension by ABC over his on-air comments after conservative activist\u00a0Charlie Kirk&#8217;s\u00a0assassination.\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0was among those who had wanted Kimmel to be fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government is once again engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia, and the entertainment industry,\u201d the committee&#8217;s mission statement reads in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe refuse to stand by and let that happen. Free speech and free expression are the inalienable rights of every American of all backgrounds and political beliefs \u2014 no matter how liberal or conservative you may be. The ability to criticize, question, protest, and even mock those in power is foundational to what America has always aspired to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fondas each have had long histories of activism, whether Jane Fonda&#8217;s opposition to the Vietnam War or Henry Fonda&#8217;s prominent support for Democratic Party candidates, including John F. Kennedy, for whom the elder Fonda\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDdeuKEvCmg\" target=\"_blank\">appeared in a campaign ad<\/a>\u00a0in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, joined the 1947 First Amendment committee along with such actors and filmmakers as Humphrey Bogart, John Huston,\u00a0Lucille Ball\u00a0and\u00a0Frank Sinatra. Although highly publicized at the time, the committee had a short and troubled history. Bogart and others would find themselves accused of Communist sympathies and would express surprise when a handful of the Hollywood Ten, including screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, turned to have been Communist Party members at one time or another.<\/p>\n<p>By the following year, Bogart had published an essay in Photoplay magazine entitled \u201cI&#8217;m No Communist,\u201d in which he confided that \u201cactors and actresses always go overboard about things\u201d and warned against being \u201cused as dupes by Commie organizations.\u201d Trumbo and others in the Hollywood Ten would be jailed for refusing to cooperate with Congress and found themselves among many to be blacklisted through the end of the 1950s and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumlocalnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Drawing upon her personal and political past,\u00a0Jane Fonda\u00a0has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda. 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