Jane Fonda Speaks Truth To Power in SAG Awards Speech
Actress Jane Fonda at age 87 was on fire at the SAG-AFTRA awards ceremony televised last night. Upon receipt of a well-deserved lifetime achievement award, she delivered an impassioned, powerful address to the world about standing up to what is happening to our country now. “This is big time serious, folks,” she intoned. “We are in our documentary moment. This is it. It is not a rehearsal,” she said. “Let us be brave.”
If you have not seen the brief remarks as she delivered them, look for them on YouTube. It is worth it. The world needs the kind of uplifting call to arms, so to speak, that she provided. Indeed, it is time to resist with force and volume.
She alluded to the well-worn phrase, “What did you do in the war, daddy?” It is our time, each and every one of us, to decide how we are going to be able to answer that timeless question.
As I wrote in my column his week, the forces behind Trump/Musk believe the wrong side won World War II. They are chanting the slogans and waving the flags of the Nazi enemies of democracy that the generations of our parents and grandparents sacrificed so much to defeat, and did, to be benefit of all of us who have succeeded them.
It is on us now to honor that sacred effort with what we are now called upon to do.
In a meeting that went into the wee hours at City Hall Monday, the Falls Church City Council’s work session included generous input from invited members of the City’s Planning
Appearing this Tuesday at the Center for American Progress’ Ideas conference in Washington D.C., Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger defended her veto of collective bargaining legislation passed by the Virginia legislature.
The older I get and the longer I spend inside the News-Press, the more I realize the thing we were actually producing all these years was never just a newspaper.
Friday, May 15 — Today Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation banning assault weapons in Virgnia. Falls Church Sen. Saddam Salim was a chief patron of the bill of
Jane Fonda Speaks Truth To Power in SAG Awards Speech
Actress Jane Fonda at age 87 was on fire at the SAG-AFTRA awards ceremony televised last night. Upon receipt of a well-deserved lifetime achievement award, she delivered an impassioned, powerful address to the world about standing up to what is happening to our country now. “This is big time serious, folks,” she intoned. “We are in our documentary moment. This is it. It is not a rehearsal,” she said. “Let us be brave.”
If you have not seen the brief remarks as she delivered them, look for them on YouTube. It is worth it. The world needs the kind of uplifting call to arms, so to speak, that she provided. Indeed, it is time to resist with force and volume.
She alluded to the well-worn phrase, “What did you do in the war, daddy?” It is our time, each and every one of us, to decide how we are going to be able to answer that timeless question.
As I wrote in my column his week, the forces behind Trump/Musk believe the wrong side won World War II. They are chanting the slogans and waving the flags of the Nazi enemies of democracy that the generations of our parents and grandparents sacrificed so much to defeat, and did, to be benefit of all of us who have succeeded them.
It is on us now to honor that sacred effort with what we are now called upon to do.
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