Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment nearly 80 years after it was created. The veteran Hollywood actress has reintroduced the initiative that her father, Henry Fonda, helped form in 1947.
The committee was founded during the McCarthy era, when an intense period of anti-communism and paranoia was sweeping across the United States. The relaunch in 2025 is in response to what Jane Fonda believes is a coordinated campaign by the federal government to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia, and the entertainment industry. Over 500 A-list celebrities have joined Fonda's fight, adding their names as supporters of the committee's 21st-century incarnation.
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