Editing Jane Fonda (section)

== Political activism ==
During the 1960s, Fonda engaged in [[political activism]] in support of the [[Civil Rights Movement]], and in [[opposition to the Vietnam War]].<ref name="actors"/> Fonda's visits to France brought her into contact with leftist French intellectuals who were opposed to war, an experience that she later characterized as "small-c communism".{{sfn|Fonda|2005|p=139}} Along with other celebrities, she supported the [[Occupation of Alcatraz|Occupation of Alcatraz Island]] by members of the [[American Indian Movement]] in 1969, which was intended to call attention to the failures of the government with regard to treaty rights and the movement for greater Indigenous sovereignty.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/itvs/alcatrazisnotanisland/occupation.html|title=Alcatraz is Not an Island|publisher=PBS|year=2002|access-date=September 1, 2017|archive-date=December 22, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021222102053/http://www.pbs.org/itvs/alcatrazisnotanisland/occupation.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

She supported [[Huey Newton]] and the [[Black Panthers]] in the early 1970s, stating: "Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood." She called the Black Panthers "our revolutionary vanguard ... we must support them with love, money, [[propaganda]] and risk."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Black Panthers |work=[[Socialist Worker#United Kingdom|Socialist Worker]] |location=London, UK |url=http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=10386 |date=January 6, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807074004/https://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=10386 |archive-date=August 7, 2013 }}</ref> She has been involved in the [[feminist movement]] since the 1970s and dovetails her activism in support of [[civil rights]].

Fonda and [[Barbra Streisand]] joined with ten other women in the entertainment industry of Greater Los Angeles to establish the [[Hollywood Women's Political Committee]] (HWPC) in 1984. The committee's initial goal was to assist in the presidential campaign of [[Walter Mondale]] and his running mate [[Geraldine Ferraro]]. The Mondale–Ferraro ticket failed against incumbents [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush]], but HWPC retrenched itself with a list of [[New Left]] political goals, and helped to turn the [[United States Senate|Senate]] Democratic in 1986.<ref name=Smith1993>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Timothy K. |date=May 14, 1993 |title=What Does Barbra Believe in, Anyway? 'Repair the World' |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] }}</ref> In 1992, HWPC helped to elect a record-breaking number of women legislators, an achievement called the [[Year of the Woman]]. Described by observers as carrying forward the same political goals as Fonda and Streisand, HWPC continued its activism through political setbacks of 1994 and 1996,<ref name=Welkos1997>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-22-ca-5669-story.html |pages=292–293 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 22, 1997 |last=Welkos |first=Robert W. |title=Is There a Chill in the Air? |accessdate=September 15, 2020 |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523220856/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-22-ca-5669-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> finally dissolving in 1997.<ref name=Cooper1999>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/postcards-left/ |last=Cooper |first=Marc |date=March 18, 1999 |title=Postcards From the Left |magazine=[[The Nation]] |accessdate=September 7, 2020 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921104032/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/postcards-left/ |url-status=live }}</ref> During their run, the HWPC was called "the single most-powerful entertainment group" in politics.<ref name=Crowley1996>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60941895/stars-and-their-money-come-out-for/ |last=Crowley |first=Brian E. |date=June 2, 1996 |title=Stars, and their money, come out for Democratic candidates, causes |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post |accessdate=September 15, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707065627/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palm-beach-post-stars-and-their-mon/60941895/ |url-status=live }}{{open access}}</ref>

===Opposition to the Vietnam War===
{{See also|Opposition to the Vietnam War|RITA Resistance Inside the Armies#Jane Fonda and RITA}}
[[File:Jane Fonda 1975d.jpg|thumb|left|Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War conference in the Netherlands in January 1975]]

On May 4, 1970, Fonda appeared before an assembly at the [[University of New Mexico]], in Albuquerque, to speak on [[G.I.]] rights and issues. The end of her presentation was met with a discomfiting silence until [[Beat Generation|Beat]] poet [[Gregory Corso]] staggered onto the stage, drunk. He challenged Fonda, using a four-letter expletive: why hadn't she addressed the [[Kent State shootings|shooting of four students at Kent State]] by the Ohio National Guard, which had just taken place? In her autobiography, Fonda revisited the incident: "I was shocked by the news and felt like a fool." On the same day, she joined a protest march on the home of university president Ferrel Heady. The protesters called themselves "They Shoot Students, Don't They?" – a reference to Fonda's recently released film, ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'', which had just been screened in Albuquerque.{{sfn|Bosworth|2011|pp=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780547152578/page/98 98], 315}}

In the same year, Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by [[Vietnam Veterans Against the War]] (VVAW) in [[Valley Forge, Pennsylvania]]. She offered to help raise funds for VVAW and was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hq2_JFvV0kC |title=Home to war: a history of the Vietnam veterans' movement |last=Nicosia |first=Gerald |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7867-1403-2 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |page=73 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415184612/https://books.google.com/books?id=5hq2_JFvV0kC |url-status=live }}</ref> That fall, Fonda started a tour of college campuses on which she raised funds for the organization. As noted by ''The New York Times'', Fonda was a "major patron" of the VVAW.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/us/2004-campaign-massachusetts-senator-71-antiwar-words-complex-view-kerry.html|title=The 2004 Campaign: The Massachusetts Senator; In '71 Antiwar Words, a Complex View of Kerry|work=The New York Times|first=Todd S.|last=Purdum|date=February 28, 2004|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=August 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812135024/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/us/2004-campaign-massachusetts-senator-71-antiwar-words-complex-view-kerry.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For example, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit Fonda filed against ''[[Playboy]]'' in 1966,<ref name=WP66/> the February 1971 issue contained a full-page ad in support of the VVAW, and as a result "the VVAW was transformed into one of the most important actors in the antiwar movement".<ref>{{cite book|title=Mayday 1971|author=Lawrence Roberts|year=2020|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]|isbn=978-1-328-76672-4|page=90-91}}</ref>

In 1971, Fonda, with [[Fred Gardner (activist)|Fred Gardner]] and [[Donald Sutherland]] formed the [[Free The Army tour|FTA tour]] ("Free The Army", a play on the troop expression "Fuck The Army"), an anti-war road show designed as an answer to [[Bob Hope]]'s [[USO]] tour. The tour, described as "political [[vaudeville]]" by Fonda, visited military towns along the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]], aiming to establish a dialogue with soldiers about their upcoming deployments to Vietnam. The dialogue was made into a movie (''[[F.T.A.]]'') which contained strong, frank criticism of the war by servicemembers; it was released in 1972.<ref>[https://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=2376 Rotten Tomatoes profile of ''F.T.A.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206183459/http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=2376 |date=December 6, 2008 }}; retrieved April 2, 2006.</ref>

====Visit to Hanoi====
[[File:Hanoi Jane.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|Jane Fonda on the NVA anti-aircraft gun]]

Between 1965 and 1972, almost 300 Americans – mostly civil rights activists, teachers, and pastors – traveled to [[North Vietnam]] to see firsthand the war situation with the Vietnamese, believing that the news media in the United States predominantly provided a U.S. viewpoint. American travelers to North Vietnam were routinely harassed upon their return home.{{sfn|Hershberger|2005|pp=75–81}} Fonda visited Vietnam in July 1972, traveling to [[Hanoi]] to witness the bombing damage to the [[Levee|dikes]]. After touring and photographing dike systems in North Vietnam, she said the United States had been [[Bombing of Vietnam's dikes|intentionally targeting the dike system along the Red River]]. Sweden's ambassador to Vietnam likewise observed the bomb damage to the dikes and described it as "methodic". Other journalists reported that the attacks were "aimed at the whole system of dikes".{{sfn|Hershberger|2005|pp=75–81}} Columnist [[Joseph Kraft]], who was also touring North Vietnam, said he believed the damage to the dikes was incidental and was being used as propaganda by Hanoi, and that, if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879148,00.html|title=VIET Nam: The Battle of the Dikes|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=August 7, 1972|access-date=April 1, 2008|archive-date=March 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306151316/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879148,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Due to the publicity surrounding Fonda's visit, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) assessed aerial photography of the North Vietnamese dike system in a secret 1972 report, arriving at two conclusions: First, that the North Vietnamese dike system was incredibly robust, meaning it would be costly to attack and easy to repair. They noted that "A crew of less than 50 men with wheelbarrows and hand tools probably could repair in one day the largest crater observed."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2007-03-09 |title=North Vietnam: The Dike Bombing Issue |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00875R001700040062-8.pdf |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=CIA Reading Room |publisher=CIA}}</ref> Second, they found that "all the damaged sections of dikes are close to valid military-related targets",<ref name=":0" /> and not in areas that would cause the most damage to the dike system. Thus the CIA argued that "A study of available photography shows conclusively that there has been no concerted and intentional bombing of North Vietnam's vital dike system." French geographer [[Yves Lacoste]] published an analysis in 1973 which concluded the dike system was intentionally targeted in the eastern region of the delta, with bombs consistently targeting the most vulnerable concave sections, and resulted in critical sub-surface damage which left them vulnerable to failure in subsequent flooding.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8330.1973.tb00502.x |title=An Illustration of Geographical Warfare: Bombing of the Dikes on the Red River, North Vietnam |journal=Antipode |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=1–13 |year=1973 |last1=Lacoste |first1=Yves |bibcode=1973Antip...5....1L |hdl=10214/1826 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Fonda was photographed seated on a North Vietnamese [[anti-aircraft gun]]; the photo outraged a number of Americans,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Jane Fonda relives her protest days on the set of her new film|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/7911158/Jane-Fonda-relives-her-protest-days-on-the-set-of-her-new-film.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/7911158/Jane-Fonda-relives-her-protest-days-on-the-set-of-her-new-film.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=July 26, 2010|first=Laura|last=Roberts|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|access-date=July 19, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/23/list-top-10-jane-fonda-mistakes/ |work=Washington Times |title=Jane Fonda mistakes |date=December 23, 2012 |access-date=November 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012201224/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/23/list-top-10-jane-fonda-mistakes/ |archive-date=October 12, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=How Jane Fonda's 1972 trip to North Vietnam earned her the nickname 'Hanoi Jane'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/18/how-jane-fondas-1972-trip-to-north-vietnam-earned-her-the-nickname-hanoi-jane/|access-date=October 19, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=March 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328185031/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/18/how-jane-fondas-1972-trip-to-north-vietnam-earned-her-the-nickname-hanoi-jane/|url-status=live}}</ref> In her 2005 autobiography, she wrote that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery; she had been horrified at the implications of the pictures. In a 2011 entry on her official website, Fonda explained:

<blockquote>It happened on my last day in Hanoi. I was exhausted and an emotional wreck after the 2-week visit&nbsp;... The translator told me that the soldiers wanted to sing me a song. He translated as they sung. It was a song about the day 'Uncle Ho' declared their country's independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. I heard these words: 'All men are created equal; they are given certain rights; among these are life, Liberty and Happiness.' These are the words Ho pronounced at the historic ceremony. I began to cry and clap. 'These young men should not be our enemy. They celebrate the same words Americans do.' The soldiers asked me to sing for them in return&nbsp;... I memorized a song called 'Dậy mà đi' ["Get up and go"], written by anti-war South Vietnamese students. I knew I was slaughtering it, but everyone seemed delighted that I was making the attempt. I finished. Everyone was laughing and clapping, including me&nbsp;... Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone (I don't remember who) led me towards the gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding. It all had nothing to do with where I was sitting. I hardly even thought about where I was sitting. The cameras flashed&nbsp;... It is possible that it was a set up, that the Vietnamese had it all planned. I will never know. But if they did I can't blame them. The buck stops here. If I was used, I allowed it to happen&nbsp;... a two-minute lapse of sanity that will haunt me forever&nbsp;... But the photo exists, delivering its message regardless of what I was doing or feeling. I carry this heavy in my heart. I have apologized numerous times for any pain I may have caused servicemen and their families because of this photograph. It was never my intention to cause harm.<ref name=truth2011july>[http://janefonda.com/the-truth-about-my-trip-to-hanoi "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216105409/http://janefonda.com/the-truth-about-my-trip-to-hanoi |date=February 16, 2014 }}. July 22, 2011; accessed January 27, 2014 at the Jane Fonda official website.</ref></blockquote>

Fonda made radio broadcasts on Hanoi Radio throughout her two-week tour, describing her visits to villages, hospitals, schools, and factories that had been bombed, and denouncing U.S. military policy.{{sfn|Fonda|2005|p=324}}<ref name="snopes2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp|title=Hanoi'd with Jane|author=Mikkelson, David|website=[[Snopes.com]]|date=May 25, 2005|access-date=August 25, 2008|archive-date=April 28, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130428000937/http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> During the course of her visit, Fonda visited American [[prisoners of war]] (POWs), and brought back messages from them to their families. When stories of torture of returning POWs were later being publicized by the Nixon administration, Fonda said that those making such claims were "hypocrites and liars and pawns", adding about the prisoners she visited, "These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed."{{sfn|Andersen|1990|p=266}} In addition, Fonda told ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1973, "I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture&nbsp;... but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie."<ref>{{cite news|title=Jane Fonda Grants Some P.O.W. Torture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/07/archives/jane-fonda-grants-some-pow-torture.html|work=The New York Times|date=April 7, 1973|access-date=July 23, 2018|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723093631/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/07/archives/jane-fonda-grants-some-pow-torture.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Her visits to the POW camp led to persistent rumors that prisoners had been coerced into meeting with Fonda by the North Vietnamese with torture, which were repeated widely, and continued to circulate on the Internet decades later. Fonda, as well as the named POWs, have denied the rumors,<ref name=truth2011july/> and subsequent interviews with the POWs showed these allegations to be false—the persons named had never met Fonda.<ref name="snopes2005"/>

In 1972, Fonda helped fund and organize the [[Indochina Peace Campaign]], which<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwluherstory.com/indochina-peace-campaign.html |title=Indochina Peace Campaign |publisher=The Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project |work=Womankind |date=November 1972 |access-date=February 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708214602/https://www.cwluherstory.com/indochina-peace-campaign.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref> continued to mobilize antiwar activists in the US after the 1973 [[Paris Peace Accords|Paris Peace Agreement]], until 1975 when the United States withdrew from Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indochina Peace Campaign, Boston Office: Records, 1972–1975|url=http://www.lib.umb.edu/node/1607|publisher=University of Massachusetts|access-date=September 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610031445/http://www.lib.umb.edu/node/1607|archive-date=June 10, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Because of her tour of North Vietnam during wartime and the subsequent rumors, resentment against her persists among some veterans and serving U.S. military. For example, when a [[U.S. Naval Academy]] plebe ritually shouted out "Goodnight, Jane Fonda!", the entire company of midshipmen plebes replied "Goodnight, bitch!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/Brush/fonda.html |title=Hating Jane: The American Military and Jane Fonda |last=Brush |first=Peter |publisher=[[Vanderbilt University]] |year=2004 |archive-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404102645/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/brush/fonda.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4TMYCIt5ywC&pg=PA229 |isbn=978-0-19-518172-2 |first=Steven J. |last=Ross |year=2011 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |page=229 |chapter=Movement Leader, Grassroots Builder: Jane Fonda |access-date=November 7, 2014 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415184612/https://books.google.com/books?id=N4TMYCIt5ywC&pg=PA229 |url-status=live }}</ref> This practice has since been prohibited by the academy's ''Plebe Summer Standard Operating Procedures''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plebe Summer Standard Operating Procedures|url=http://www.usna.edu/Commandant/Instructions/COMDTMIDNINST_3120.1J_PLEBE_SUMMER_STANDARD_OPERATING_PROCEDURES.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719091245/http://www.usna.edu/Commandant/Instructions/COMDTMIDNINST_3120.1J_PLEBE_SUMMER_STANDARD_OPERATING_PROCEDURES.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 19, 2013|publisher=United States Naval Academy|access-date=April 14, 2013|pages=5–4|date=March 13, 2013}}</ref> In 2005, Michael A. Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran, was arrested for disorderly conduct in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], after he spat chewing tobacco in Fonda's face during a book-signing event for her autobiography, ''My Life So Far''. He told reporters that he "consider[ed] it a debt of honor", adding "she spit in our faces for 37 years. It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of veterans who would love to do what I did." Fonda refused to press charges.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news |title=Jane Fonda rips QVC after appearance scuttled |url=http://www.today.com/news/jane-fonda-rips-qvc-after-appearance-scuttled-wbna43786427 |publisher=[[msnbc.com]] |first=Brandi |last=Fowler |date=July 18, 2011 |access-date=July 19, 2011 |archive-date=April 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143108/http://www.today.com/news/jane-fonda-rips-qvc-after-appearance-scuttled-wbna43786427 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Veteran Not Fonda Jane|url=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b49693_veteran_not_fonda_jane.html|first=Julie|last=Keller|date=April 20, 2005|publisher=[[E! Online]]|access-date=July 19, 2011|archive-date=July 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719201635/http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b49693_veteran_not_fonda_jane.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When [[Los Angeles County]] tried to name April 30 as "Jane Fonda Day" for her environmental work in 2024, it was met with immediate backlash from the region's large [[Vietnamese American]] community because it fell on the same day as [[Black April (Tháng Tư Đen)|Black April]], the day when [[Fall of Saigon|Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces]]; the day was later moved to April 8 instead to avoid further controversy with the county stating that April 30 was originally chosen because it was the scheduled day the county met to commemorate people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailynews.com/2024/05/21/la-county-to-move-jane-fonda-day-so-it-doesnt-fall-on-black-april-the-day-of-the-fall-of-saigon/|title=LA County moves Jane Fonda Day so it doesn't fall on Black April, the day of the fall of Saigon|website=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |date=May 21, 2024}}</ref>

====Regrets====
In a 1988 interview with [[Barbara Walters]], Fonda expressed regret for some of her comments and actions, stating:

<blockquote>I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families. ... I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with Barbara Walters|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html#aftermath|publisher=UC Berkeley Library Sound Recording Project|year=1988|access-date=February 16, 2008|archive-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008102714/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html#aftermath|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

In a ''[[60 Minutes]]'' interview on March 31, 2005, Fonda reiterated that she had no regrets about her trip to [[North Vietnam]] in 1972, with the exception of the anti-aircraft-gun photo. She stated that the incident was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege". Fonda said, "The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as [[propaganda]] and pride for her anti-war activism: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda ... It's not something that I will apologize for." Fonda said she had no regrets about the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked the North Vietnamese to do: "Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jane-fonda-wish-i-hadnt-31-03-2005/|title=Jane Fonda: Wish I Hadn't|publisher=CBS|work=60 minutes|access-date=February 16, 2008|date=March 31, 2005|archive-date=June 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615070838/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/60minutes/main684295_page2.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Subject of government surveillance===
In 2013, it was revealed that Fonda was one of approximately 1,600 Americans whose communications between 1967 and 1973 were monitored by the United States [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) as part of [[Project MINARET]], a program that some NSA officials have described as "disreputable if not downright illegal".<ref name=nsarchive-2013>{{cite web|title=Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal': The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.|url=http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441|work=National Security Archive|publisher=George Washington University|editor=Burr, William|editor2=Aid, Matthew M.|date=September 25, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926223814/http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/|archive-date=September 26, 2013|access-date=September 26, 2013}}</ref><ref name=pilkington-2013>{{cite news|last=Pilkington |first=Ed |title=Declassified NSA files show agency spied on Muhammad Ali and MLK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam-muhammad-ali-mlk |access-date=September 26, 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=September 26, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926154853/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam-muhammad-ali-mlk |archive-date=September 26, 2013 }}</ref> Fonda's communications, as well as those of her husband, [[Tom Hayden]], were intercepted by Britain's [[Government Communications Headquarters]] (GCHQ). Under the [[UKUSA Agreement]], intercepted data on Americans were sent to the U.S. government.<ref>{{cite news|last=Christopher|first=Hanson|title=British 'helped U.S. in spying on activists{{'-}}|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t6FlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1101,1439296|work=[[The Vancouver Sun]]|access-date=November 30, 2013|date=August 13, 1982|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224163827/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t6FlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1101,1439296|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title={{-'}}UK aided spy check{{'-}}|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uwA-AAAAIBAJ&pg=5300,1649773|access-date=November 30, 2013|newspaper=[[Evening Times]]|location=Glasgow, Scotland|date=August 13, 1982|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225083805/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uwA-AAAAIBAJ&pg=5300,1649773|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1970 arrest===
On November 2, 1970, Fonda was arrested by authorities at [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport]] on suspicion of [[drug trafficking]].<ref name="Blog"/> Her luggage was searched when she re-entered the United States after participating in an anti-war college speaking tour in Canada, and several small baggies containing pills were seized.<ref name="HuffPost"/> Although Fonda protested that the pills were harmless vitamins, she was booked by police and then released on bond. Fonda alleged that the arresting officer told her he was acting on direct orders from the Nixon White House.<ref name="Late Show with Stephen Colbert">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Lc2OGt2_85Y Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180920162848/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2OGt2_85Y Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2OGt2_85Y| title=Jane Fonda's Activism Drew the Ire of Nixon| author=Late Show with Stephen Colbert| date=September 20, 2018| access-date=September 20, 2018 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As she wrote in 2009, "I told them what [the vitamins] were but they said they were getting orders from the White House. I think they hoped this 'scandal' would cause the college speeches to be canceled and ruin my respectability."<ref name="Blog">{{cite news| url=https://www.janefonda.com/mug-shot/| title=Mug Shot| author=Jane Fonda| publisher=www.janefonda.com| date=May 26, 2009| access-date=September 20, 2018| archive-date=September 21, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921153111/https://www.janefonda.com/mug-shot/| url-status=live}}</ref> After lab tests confirmed the pills were vitamins, the charges were dropped with little media attention.

Fonda's mugshot from the arrest, in which she [[Raised fist|raises her fist]] in a sign of solidarity, has since become a widely published image of the actress.<ref name="HuffPost">{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jane-fonda-is-selling-merchandise-with-her-1970-mugshot-on-it_us_58cbe76ae4b0be71dcf40329 |title=Jane Fonda is Selling Merchandise With Her 1970 Mugshot On It |last=Vagianos |first=Alanna |work=Huffington Post |date=March 17, 2017 |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=August 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810073212/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jane-fonda-is-selling-merchandise-with-her-1970-mugshot-on-it_us_58cbe76ae4b0be71dcf40329 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was used as the poster image for the 2018 [[HBO]] documentary on Fonda, "Jane Fonda in Five Acts", with a giant billboard sporting the image erected in [[Times Square]] in September 2018.<ref>{{cite video |url=https://www.eonline.com/videos/277943/jane-fonda-never-expected-to-see-her-mugshot-on-billboards |title=Jane Fonda Never Expected To See Her Mugshot on Billboards |author=E News |publisher=www.eonline.com |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921114920/https://www.eonline.com/videos/277943/jane-fonda-never-expected-to-see-her-mugshot-on-billboards |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, she began selling merchandise with her mugshot image to benefit the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential.<ref name="HuffPost"/>

===Feminist causes===
In a 2017 interview with [[Brie Larson]], published by ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine, Fonda stated, "One of the great things the women's movement has done is to make us realise that (rape and abuse is) not our fault. We were violated and it's not right." She said, "I've been raped, I've been sexually abused as a child and I've been fired because I wouldn't sleep with my boss." She said, "I always thought it was my fault; that I didn't do or say the right thing. I know young girls who've been raped and didn't even know it was rape. They think, 'It must have been because I said 'no' the wrong way.'"

Through her work, Fonda said she wants to help abuse victims "realize that [rape and abuse] is not our fault". Fonda said that her difficult past led her to become such a passionate activist for women's rights. The actress is an active supporter of the V-Day movement, which works to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health, which aims to help prevent teen pregnancy. She said she was "brought up with the disease to please" in her early life.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39151842 |title=Jane Fonda reveals rape and child abuse |date=March 3, 2017 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |work=BBC News |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000716/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39151842 |url-status=live }}</ref> Fonda revealed in 2014 that her mother, [[Frances Ford Seymour]], was recurrently sexually abused as young as eight, and this may have led to her suicide when Jane was 12.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://people.com/movies/jane-fonda-reveals-she-was-raped-and-sexually-abused-as-a-child-i-always-thought-it-was-my-fault/ |title=Jane Fonda Reveals She Was Raped – and Sexually Abused as a Child: 'I Always Thought It Was My Fault' |newspaper=People |date=March 2, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303124908/http://people.com/movies/jane-fonda-reveals-she-was-raped-and-sexually-abused-as-a-child-i-always-thought-it-was-my-fault/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Ms. magazine Cover - Winter 2006.jpg|thumbnail|Fonda on the cover of [[Ms. (magazine)|''Ms.'' magazine]] in 2006]]

Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including [[V-Day (movement)|V-Day]], of which she is an honorary chairperson, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the off-Broadway hit ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]''. She was at the first summit in 2002, bringing together founder [[Eve Ensler]], Afghan women oppressed by the [[Taliban]], and a [[Kenya]]n activist campaigning to save girls from [[Female genital mutilation|genital mutilation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vday.org/static/presskit/2007OnlinePressKit.pdf|title=V-Day's 2007 Press Kit|publisher=V-Day|access-date=February 15, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227203051/http://www.vday.org/static/presskit/2007OnlinePressKit.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2008}}</ref>

In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]] to help prevent adolescent pregnancy through training and program development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gynob.emory.edu/jfc_prog_teenservices.cfm|title=Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health|publisher=Emory University, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics|access-date=February 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111100335/http://gynob.emory.edu/jfc_prog_teenservices.cfm|archive-date=November 11, 2005}}</ref> On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through [[Ciudad Juárez]], with [[Sally Field]], [[Eve Ensler]] and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials in helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/actresses-speak-out-in-mexico-city/|title=Actresses Speak Out in Mexico City|work=CBS News|access-date=February 15, 2008|date=May 10, 2006|archive-date=September 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911005954/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/10/entertainment/main1604992.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, she also served as a mentor to the first all-[[transgender]] cast of ''The Vagina Monologues''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html|title=Beautiful Daughters|last1=Aronson|first1=Josh|last2=Jordan|first2=Ariel Orr|access-date=October 2, 2008|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607125545/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the days before the September 17, 2006, Swedish elections, Fonda went to Sweden to support the new political party [[Feministiskt initiativ]] in their election campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.se/se/article/2006/09/15/13/5501-23/index.xml|title=Jane Fonda FI:s galjonsfigur för en dag|publisher=Metro International|access-date=February 15, 2008|date=September 9, 2006|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228020707/http://www.metro.se/se/article/2006/09/15/13/5501-23/index.xml|archive-date=February 28, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In ''My Life So Far'', Fonda stated that she considers [[patriarchy]] to be harmful to men as well as women. She also states that for many years, she feared to call herself a feminist, because she believed that all feminists were "anti-male". But now, with her increased understanding of patriarchy, she feels that feminism is beneficial to both men and women, and states that she "still loves men", adding that when she divorced Ted Turner, she felt like she had also divorced the world of patriarchy, and was very happy to have done so.{{sfn|Fonda|2005}}

In April 2016, Fonda said that while she was 'glad' that [[Bernie Sanders]] was running, she predicted [[Hillary Clinton]] would become the first female [[President of the United States|president]], whose supposed win Fonda believed would result in a "violent backlash." Clinton did not become president and got defeated by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s nominee businessman [[Donald Trump]] in the general election later that year. Fonda went on to say that we need to "help men understand why they are so threatened – and change the way we view masculinity".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/15/jane-fonda-hillary-clinton-tribeca-film-festival|title=Jane Fonda at Tribeca: 'Hillary Clinton will be president'|last=Smith|first=Nigel M.|date=April 15, 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=May 8, 2017|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=April 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422183557/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/15/jane-fonda-hillary-clinton-tribeca-film-festival|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2020, Fonda endorsed Sanders for the Democratic nomination in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]], calling him the "climate candidate."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jane-fonda-endorse-bernie-sanders-climate-change-green-new-deal-aoc-biden-a9389181.html|title=Jane Fonda endorses 'climate candidate' Bernie Sanders in 2020 Democratic race|publisher=Independent|access-date=March 27, 2021|date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628033558/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jane-fonda-endorse-bernie-sanders-climate-change-green-new-deal-aoc-biden-a9389181.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Women's Media Center===
In 2005, along with [[Robin Morgan]] and [[Gloria Steinem]], she cofounded the [[Women's Media Center]], an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://womensmediacenter.com/about|title= About WMC|website= [[Women's Media Center]]|accessdate= July 9, 2024}}</ref> Fonda serves on the board of the organization.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNT769AZd8U|title= Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem & Robin Morgan on Women's Media Awards on CBS This Morning, Sept 18 2013|website= Youtube|date= March 20, 2014|accessdate= July 9, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://womensmediacenter.com/profile/jane-fonda|title= Jane Fonda|website= Women's Media Center|accessdate= July 9, 2024}}</ref> Based in Los Angeles, she has lived all over the world, including six years in France and 20 in Atlanta.

===LGBTQ+ support===
Fonda has publicly shown her support of the [[LGBTQ+]] community many times throughout her career. In August 2021, Fonda, the cast of ''[[Grace and Frankie]]'', and other advocates joined to support a fundraiser hosted by the [[Los Angeles LGBT Center]] to help members of the LGBTQ+ community during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Diaz|first=Gil|title=Adam Lambert, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Manila Luzon, and More to Participate in Los Angeles LGBT Center's Second Annual Telethon Airing Live on KTLA 5 on Saturday, August 14|url=https://lalgbtcenter.org/about-the-center/press-releases/adam-lambert-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-manila-luzon-and-more-to-participate-in-los-angeles-lgbt-center-s-second-annual-telethon-airing-live-on-ktla-5-on-saturday-august-14|access-date=October 19, 2021|website=Los Angeles LGBT Center|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019032630/https://lalgbtcenter.org/about-the-center/press-releases/adam-lambert-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-manila-luzon-and-more-to-participate-in-los-angeles-lgbt-center-s-second-annual-telethon-airing-live-on-ktla-5-on-saturday-august-14|url-status=live}}</ref>

Fonda spoke out as an LGBTQ+ ally long before it was common.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 10, 2020|title=Viral video shows Jane Fonda setting the gold standard for being an LGBT+ ally way back in 1979|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/10/jane-fonda-gay-rights-ally-1979-interview-harvey-milk-san-fransisco-white-night-riots/|access-date=October 19, 2021|website=PinkNews|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019050636/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/10/jane-fonda-gay-rights-ally-1979-interview-harvey-milk-san-fransisco-white-night-riots/|url-status=live}}</ref> She appeared in a video of a 1979 interview during the [[White Night Riots]] in San Francisco after the assassination of [[Harvey Milk]], the first openly gay politician in California. During the interview she was asked if the gay community was still being discriminated against, to which she replied that they "are culturally, psychologically, economically, politically" being discriminated against.<ref name="youtube1979">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/4Oo87HDpgHk Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200801100550/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oo87HDpgHk Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=1979 Interview Jane Fonda on Gay Rights, LGBTQ+| date=September 6, 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oo87HDpgHk|access-date=October 19, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Fonda was then asked if the gay community has used her as an advocate and she replied that she hopes they will use her, though she stressed that "they are a very powerful movement, they don't need me, but they like me (and) they know by working together we can be stronger than either entity is by itself."<ref name="youtube1979"/>

===Native Americans===
Fonda went to [[Seattle]] in 1970 to support a group of Native Americans who were led by [[Bernie Whitebear]]. The group had occupied part of the grounds of [[Fort Lawton]], which was in the process of being surplussed by the [[United States Army]] and turned into a park. The group was attempting to secure a land base where they could establish services for the sizable local [[urban Indian]] population, protesting that "Indians had a right to part of the land that was originally all theirs."<ref>{{cite news|last=Tizon|first=Alex|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19971202/2575788/facing-the-end-activist-reflects-on-lifes-victories|title=Facing The End, Activist Reflects On Life's Victories|work=[[The Seattle Times]]|date=December 2, 1997|access-date=March 5, 2010|archive-date=May 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511170832/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971202&slug=2575788|url-status=live}}</ref> The endeavor succeeded and the [[Daybreak Star Cultural Center]] was constructed in the city's Discovery Park.<ref>Whitebear, Bernie. "Self-Determination: Taking Back Fort Lawton. Meeting the Needs of Seattle's Native American Community Through Conversion", [http://www.urbanhabitat.org/files/5-1%20all.pdf ''Race, Poverty & the Environment'', Volume IV, Number 4/Volume V, Number 1 (Spring – Summer 1994)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109165357/http://www.urbanhabitat.org/files/5-1%20all.pdf |date=January 9, 2009 }}, p. 5.</ref>

In addition to environmental reasons, Fonda has been a critic of oil pipelines because of their being built without consent on Native American tribal land. In 2017, Fonda responded to American President Donald Trump's mandate to resume construction of the controversial North Dakota Pipelines by saying that Trump "does this illegally because he has not gotten consent from the tribes through whose countries this goes" and pointing out that "the U.S. has agreed to treaties that require them to get the consent of the people who are affected, the indigenous people who live there."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/jane-fonda-rails-trump-pipeline-orders-nyc-protest-article-1.2954920|title=Jane Fonda rails against President Trump's pipeline orders at Manhattan protest|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=January 24, 2017|access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125043000/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/jane-fonda-rails-trump-pipeline-orders-nyc-protest-article-1.2954920|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Israeli–Palestinian conflict===
In December 2002, Fonda visited [[Israel]] and the [[West Bank]] as part of a tour focusing on stopping violence against women. She demonstrated with [[Women in Black]] against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and [[Gaza Strip]] outside the residence of Israel's Prime Minister. She later visited Jewish and Arab doctors, and patients at a Jerusalem hospital, followed by visits to [[Ramallah]] to see a physical rehabilitation center and Palestinian refugee camp.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2595375.stm "Fonda joins Jerusalem demo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122103909/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2595375.stm |date=November 22, 2008 }}. [[BBC News Online]]. December 2, 2002; accessed February 8, 2014.</ref>

In September 2009, she was one of more than 1,500 signatories to a letter protesting the [[2009 Toronto International Film Festival]]'s spotlight on [[Tel Aviv]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/14/no_celebration_of_occupation_1_500|title=No Celebration of Occupation: 1,500 Artists and Writers Sign Letter Protesting Toronto Film Festival Decision to Spotlight Tel Aviv|work=Democracy Now!|date=September 14, 2009|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=December 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217084042/http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/14/no_celebration_of_occupation_1_500|url-status=live}}</ref> The protest letter said that the spotlight on Tel Aviv was part of "the Israeli propaganda machine" because it was supported in part by funding from the Israeli government and had been described by the Israeli Consul General Amir Gissin as being part of a [[Brand Israel]] campaign intended to draw attention away from [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israel's conflict with the Palestinians]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15198&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=86 |title=Brand Israel set to launch in GTA |access-date=September 14, 2009 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912044103/http://www.cjnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15198&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=86 |archive-date=September 12, 2009 }} ''[[Canadian Jewish News]]''. August 21, 2009; accessed February 8, 2014.</ref><ref name="CBCNewsAug282009">[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-director-protests-tiff-tel-aviv-spotlight-1.789117 "Canadian director protests TIFF Tel Aviv spotlight"] . [[CBC News]]. August 29, 2009.</ref><ref>French, Cameron (September 4, 2009). [https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5825G720090904 "Artists protest Tel Aviv focus at Toronto film fest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308140921/https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5825G720090904 |date=March 8, 2021 }}. [[Reuters]].</ref> Other signers included actor [[Danny Glover]], musician [[David Byrne]], journalist [[John Pilger]], and authors [[Alice Walker]], [[Naomi Klein]], and [[Howard Zinn]].<ref>Knegt, Peter (September 3, 2009). [https://www.indiewire.com/article/fonda_loach_and_klein_among_those_joining_protest_against_tiff/ "Fonda, Loach and Klein Among Those Joining Protest Against TIFF"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224045416/http://www.indiewire.com/article/fonda_loach_and_klein_among_those_joining_protest_against_tiff |date=February 24, 2014 }}. IndieWire.com.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/fonda_loach_and_klein_among_those_joining_protest_against_tiff/P1 |title=An Open Letter to the Toronto International Film Festival |work=indieWIRE |access-date=September 5, 2009 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906113128/http://www.indiewire.com/article/fonda_loach_and_klein_among_those_joining_protest_against_tiff/P1 |archive-date=September 6, 2009 }}. September 2, 2009; accessed February 8, 2014.</ref>

Fonda, in ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', said she regretted some of the language used in the original protest letter and how it "was perhaps too easily misunderstood. It certainly has been wildly distorted. Contrary to the lies that have been circulated, the protest letter was not demonizing Israeli films and filmmakers." She continued, writing "the greatest 're-branding' of Israel would be to celebrate that country's long standing, courageous and robust peace movement by helping to end the blockade of Gaza through negotiations with all parties to the conflict, and by stopping the expansion of West Bank settlements. That's the way to show Israel's commitment to peace, not a PR campaign. There will be no two-state solution unless this happens."<ref name="FondaHP2009">Fonda, Jane (September 15, 2009). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-fonda/expanding-the-narrative_b_286406.html "Expanding the Narrative"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524014620/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-fonda/expanding-the-narrative_b_286406.html |date=May 24, 2017 }}. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''.</ref> Fonda emphasized that she, "in no way, support[s] the destruction of Israel. I am for the two-state solution. I have been to Israel many times and love the country and its people."<ref name="FondaHP2009" /> Several prominent Atlanta Jews subsequently signed a letter to ''The Huffington Post'' rejecting the vilification of Fonda, who they described as "a strong supporter and friend of Israel".<ref>Minkin, David (September 14, 2009). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-minkin/atlanta-jews-reject-vilif_b_285755.html "Atlanta Jews Reject Vilification and Stand Up for Jane Fonda"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165257/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-minkin/atlanta-jews-reject-vilif_b_285755.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}. ''[[The Huffington Post]]''; accessed February 8, 2014.</ref>

===Opposition to the Iraq War===
{{See also|Opposition to the Iraq War}}
Fonda argued that the [[Iraq War]] would turn people all over the world against America, and asserted that a global hatred of America would result in more terrorist attacks in the aftermath of the war. In July 2005, Fonda announced plans to make an anti-war bus tour in March 2006 with her daughter and several families of military veterans, saying that some war veterans she had met while on her book tour had urged her to speak out against the [[Iraq War]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Jane Fonda to oppose Iraq war on bus tour |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-07-25-fonda_x.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210025522/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-07-25-fonda_x.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 10, 2006 |date=July 25, 2005 |work=[[USA Today]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=January 22, 2011 }}</ref> She later canceled the tour due to concerns that she would divert attention from [[Cindy Sheehan]]'s activism.<ref>{{cite web|first=Roger|last=Friedman|date=September 7, 2005|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/fonda-puts-brakes-on-bus-tour|title=Fonda Puts Brakes on Bus Tour|website=[[Fox News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106152330/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168646,00.html |archive-date=November 6, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=April 2, 2006}}</ref>

In September 2005, Fonda was scheduled to join British politician and anti-war activist [[George Galloway]] at two stops on his U.S. book tour—Chicago, and [[Madison, Wisconsin]]. She canceled her appearances at the last minute, citing instructions from her doctors to avoid travel following recent hip surgery.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jane stands up Gorgeous George |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/jane-stands-up-gorgeous-george-wr385h76szs |date=September 25, 2005 |first=Sarah |last=Baxter |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |access-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> On January 27, 2007, Fonda participated in an anti-war rally and march held on the [[National Mall]] in Washington, D.C., declaring that "silence is no longer an option".<ref>{{cite news |title=War protesters demand U.S. troop withdrawal |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16841070 |date=January 27, 2007 |publisher=[[NBC News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=January 22, 2011 |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215135514/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16841070/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She spoke at an anti-war rally earlier that day at the [[Navy Memorial]], where members of the organization [[Free Republic]] picketed in a counter protest.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thousands Protest Bush Policy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012700629_2.html |date=January 28, 2007 |first1=Michael |last1=Ruane |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=2 |first2=Fredrick |last2=Kunkle |access-date=January 22, 2011 |archive-date=August 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811204300/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012700629_2.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Fonda and Kerry===
In the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 presidential election]], her name was used as a disparaging epithet against [[John Kerry]], a former VVAW leader, who was then the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential candidate. [[Republican Party of the United States|Republican National Committee]] Chairman [[Ed Gillespie]] called Kerry a "Jane Fonda Democrat". Kerry's opponents also [[Kerry Fonda 2004 election photo controversy|circulated a photograph]] showing Fonda and Kerry in the same large crowd at a 1970 anti-war rally, though they sat several rows apart. A faked composite photograph, which gave a false impression that the two had shared a speaker's platform, was also circulated.<ref>{{cite web|first=David|last=Mikkelson|url=http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry2.asp|title=Does a photograph show Senator John Kerry and Jane Fonda sharing a speaker's platform at an anti-war rally?|website=[[Snopes]]|date=February 12, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621034335/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/john-kerry-3/ |archive-date=June 21, 2020|accessdate=April 2, 2006}}</ref>

===Environmentalism===
[[File:2019.12.06 Fire Drill Fridays, Washington, DC USA 340 60031 (49179818651).jpg|thumb|251x251px|Fonda speaking at an environmental rally in Washington, D.C., 2019]]

In 2015, Fonda expressed disapproval of President [[Barack Obama]]'s permitting of [[Arctic]] drilling ([[Petroleum exploration in the Arctic]]) at the Sundance Film Festival. In July, she marched in a Toronto protest called the "March for Jobs, Justice, and Climate", which was organized by dozens of nonprofits, labor unions, and environmental activists, including Canadian author [[Naomi Klein]]. The march aimed to show businesses and politicians alike that climate change is inherently linked to issues that may seem unrelated.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Swann|first1=Jennifer|title=Marching for Action on Climate Change, Jane Fonda Warns Against Arctic Oil Drilling|url=https://www.takepart.com/article/2015/07/05/jane-fonda-climate-change|access-date=July 6, 2015|publisher=take part|date=July 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706134919/http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/07/05/jane-fonda-climate-change|archive-date=July 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In addition to issues of civil rights, Fonda has been an opponent of oil developments and their adverse effects on the environment. In 2017, while on a trip with [[Greenpeace]] to protest oil developments, Fonda criticized [[Canadian Prime Minister]] [[Justin Trudeau]] saying at the summit on climate change in Paris, known as the [[Paris agreement]], Trudeau "talked so beautifully of needing to meet the requirements of the climate treaty and to respect and hold to the treaties with indigenous people ... and yet he has betrayed every one of the things he committed to in Paris."<ref>{{cite news|first=Helena|last=Horton|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/jane-fonda-slams-justin-trudeau-dont-fooled-good-looking-liberals/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/jane-fonda-slams-justin-trudeau-dont-fooled-good-looking-liberals/ |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Jane Fonda slams Justin Trudeau: 'Don't be fooled by good-looking liberals'|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=January 12, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Since at least 2019, she has been a supporter of global environmental organizations including [[GreenFaith]] and [[350.org]]. She spoke at the Fire Drill Fridays protest in Washington, D.C. wherein protestors condemned expansion of the [[fossil fuel industry]].<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |last=Stackl |first=Valentina |date=2023-09-05 |title=500 Groups Endorse NYC March to End Fossil Fuels |url=https://priceofoil.org/2023/09/05/500-groups-endorse-nyc-march-to-end-fossil-fuels/ |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Oil Change International |language=en-US}}</ref>

In October 2019, Fonda was arrested three times in consecutive weeks protesting climate change outside the [[United States Capitol]] in Washington, D.C. She was arrested with members of the group Oil Change International on October 11,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50021146 |title=US actress Jane Fonda arrested at climate protest |date=October 11, 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=October 11, 2019 |archive-date=October 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012013318/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50021146 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Parker |first=Ryan |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-fonda-arrested-protesting-dc-1247035 |title=Jane Fonda Arrested While Protesting in D.C. |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=October 11, 2019 |access-date=October 11, 2019 |archive-date=October 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011174042/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-fonda-arrested-protesting-dc-1247035 |url-status=live }}</ref> with ''Grace and Frankie'' co-star [[Sam Waterston]] on October 18,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-fonda-sam-waterston-detained-by-police-protesting-dc-1248693|title=Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston Arrested While Protesting in D.C.|last=Parker|first=Ryan|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=October 18, 2019|access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=October 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025203000/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-fonda-sam-waterston-detained-by-police-protesting-dc-1248693|url-status=live}}</ref> and with actor [[Ted Danson]] on October 25.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/ted-danson-arrested-alongside-jane-fonda-at-d-c-climate-change-protest-904002/|title=Ted Danson Arrested Alongside Jane Fonda at D.C. Climate Change Protest|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=October 25, 2019|access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=October 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026150942/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/ted-danson-arrested-alongside-jane-fonda-at-d-c-climate-change-protest-904002/|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 1, Fonda was arrested for the fourth consecutive Friday; also arrested were [[Catherine Keener]] and [[Rosanna Arquette]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/entertainment/jane-fonda-arrest-tracker-trnd/index.html|title=Jane Fonda got arrested AGAIN. Make that the 4th Friday in a row|last=Trammell|first=Kendall|website=[[CNN]]|access-date=November 2, 2019|archive-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102000246/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/entertainment/jane-fonda-arrest-tracker-trnd/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-11-01/jane-fonda-red-coat-arrested-climate|title=If it's Friday, it means Jane Fonda and her red coat got arrested again|date=November 1, 2019|website=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=November 2, 2019|archive-date=November 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101194702/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-11-01/jane-fonda-red-coat-arrested-climate|url-status=live}}</ref> On December 5, 2019, Fonda explained her position in a ''New York Times'' op-ed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/jane-fonda-climate-change.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Jane Fonda: We Have to Live Like We're in a Climate Emergency. Because We Are.|last=Fonda|first=Jane|date=December 5, 2019|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 8, 2019|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207171136/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/jane-fonda-climate-change.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2022, Fonda launched the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, a [[political action committee]] with the purpose of ousting politicians supporting the fossil fuel industry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chuba |first=Kirsten |date=March 17, 2022 |title=Jane Fonda Launches Climate-Focused Political Action Committee |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/jane-fonda-climate-focused-political-action-committee-1235113312/ |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-date=March 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317002353/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/jane-fonda-climate-focused-political-action-committee-1235113312/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2023, she participated in New York City's [[March to End Fossil Fuels]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Stackl |first=Valentina |date=2023-09-05 |title=500 Groups Endorse NYC March to End Fossil Fuels |url=https://priceofoil.org/2023/09/05/500-groups-endorse-nyc-march-to-end-fossil-fuels/ |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Oil Change International |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2024, she was a featured guest at 350.org's Food & Water Watch event.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-21 |title=350 NYC – Events & Actions |url=https://350nyc.org/upcoming_events/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521034017/https://350nyc.org/upcoming_events/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2024-05-21 |access-date=2024-08-03 }}</ref>

=== Artificial intelligence ===
In September 2024, Fonda joined over 125 actors, directors, and musicians in signing an open letter urging [[Gavin Newsom|Governor Gavin Newsom]] to sign [[SB 1047]], a Californian [[AI safety]] bill that would, amongst other things, hold companies training the largest AI models liable if their models cause mass casualties or over $500 million in damages. The letter, also signed by figures such as [[Alec Baldwin]], [[Pedro Pascal]] and [[Kelly Rowland]], said that the "Grave threats from AI used to be the stuff of science fiction, but not anymore," and that AI companies should implement "reasonable safeguards" against those risks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garner |first=Glenn |date=2024-09-26 |title=Jane Fonda, Shonda Rhimes & Pedro Pascal Urge Gavin Newsom To Sign AI Safety Bill In Open Letter |url=https://deadline.com/2024/09/jane-fonda-shonda-rhimes-pedro-pascal-urge-gavin-newsom-sign-ai-safety-bill-open-letter-1236099942/ |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-24 |title=Mark Hamill, Jane Fonda, J.J. Abrams urge Gov. Newsom to sign AI safety bill |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-24/mark-hamill-jane-fonda-joseph-gordon-levitt-sign-letter-in-support-of-ai-safety-bill-sb-1047 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Artists For Safe AI |url=https://artists4safeai.com/ |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Artists For Safe AI |language=en}}</ref>