Oscar-winning actress and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative that was launched in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.
Nearly 600 figures from the entertainment industry co-signed onto the newly relaunched committee, including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, and Gracie Abrams.
“The 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,” the committee said in a statement. “We refuse to stand by and let that happen.”
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Jane Fonda’s father, Henry Fonda, spearheaded the original version of the Committee for the First Amendment in 1947
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