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Jane Fonda discusses her recent efforts to promote free speech through a concert event.

Jane Fonda Biography Flash a weekly Biography. Jane Fonda has spent the past few days doing exactly what has defined her for decades: turning celebrity into a pressure campaign. According to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she appeared on the program to promote “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,” a star‑studded New York event she is spearheading at Town Hall to rally public support for free speech and civil liberties, with a nationwide livestream and thousands of organized viewing parties across the United States. Jon Stewart’s show and coverage on Paramount Plus describe the concert as both performance and protest, with Fonda explicitly tying it to what she calls an escalating assault on First Amendment freedoms and the revival of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally founded by her father Henry Fonda in the late 1940s to confront McCarthyism. Noise11 and other entertainment news outlets report that Fonda has lined up major artists including Patti Smith and Bette Midler for Rise Up, Sing Out, framing it as a synchronized national sing‑along and teach‑in, which could become a defining late‑career chapter in her biography if it evolves into a…

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Guest: Jane Fonda

Topics covered

• First Amendment
• free speech
• civil liberties
• celebrity activism
• concert
• protest
• democracy

Keywords

• Jane Fonda
• First Amendment
• Rise Up Sing Out
• free speech
• concert
• civil liberties
• celebrity activism

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Organizations: The Daily Show, Paramount Plus, Noise11, MSNBC, Committee for the First Amendment

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