Jane Fonda, posing for a portrait (left) and taking photos with Harris campaign volunteers in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 16 September 2024. The Hollywood actor and activist backs Harris for president as she warns of climate emergency and talks Taylor Swift Young people’s understandable unhappiness with the Biden administration ’s record on oil and gas drilling and the war in Gaza should not deter them from voting to block Donald Trump from again becoming president of the United States, the Hollywood actor and activist Jane Fonda has warned. “I understand why young people are really angry, and really hurting,” Fonda said. “What I want to say to them is: ‘Do not sit this election out, no matter how angry you are. Do not vote for a third party, no matter how angry you are. Because that will elect somebody who will deny you any voice in the future of the United States … If you really care about Gaza, vote to have a voice, so you can do something about it. And then, be ready to turn out into the streets, in the millions, and fight for it.’” Jane Fonda is arrested by US Capitol police along with Sam Waterston and other climate activists after blocking 1st Street in front of the Library of Congress in 2019. Photograph: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Inc/Getty Images Fonda’s remarks came in a wide-ranging interview organized by the global media collaborative Covering Climate Now and conducted by the Guardian, CBS News and Rolling Stone magazine. Making major social change requires massive, non-violent street protests as well as shrewd electoral organizing, Fonda argued. Drawing on more than 50 years of activism , from her anti-Vietnam war and anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s to later agitating for economic democracy, women’s rights and, today, for climate action, […]