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Fonda Was A Feminist Activist

Jane Fonda is known as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and was awarded the Women’s eNews award in 2004. However, her political activism started well before the early 2000s. In the 1960s, Fonda was involved with the Civil Rights Movement, the opposition to the Vietnam War, and supported the Black Panthers.

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She is also an active feminist and in her book My Life So Far, she said that she sees the patriarchy as being harmful to both men and women. Her activism has also included visiting Israel and the West Bank in hope to help stop violence against women, opposing the Iraq War, and environmentalism, specifically opposing oil drilling. Fonda is 79 years old.