All of us who want to stay relevant as we get older could learn a thing or two from Jane Fonda. She keeps injecting herself into important conversations, using her years of know-how to make points and make a difference. We can do the same in our own realms. Her current effort? An environmental voter project that targets more than 2 million people who didn't vote in 2016 but have indicated they're concerned about the planet.
Climate change is Fonda's main issue at the moment, and she's demonstrated her commitment by...uh, demonstrating. Every Friday last fall she and other volunteers led civil disobedience protests in Washington D.C. to call attention to the need for action to save the environment. Her activism led to multiple arrests, but she kept on, until coronavirus pushed her "Fire Drill Friday" events into virtual affairs. (And she's taken her message to the page, publishing a book, What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action.)
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