Jane, congratulations.
Today is the one year anniversary
of your Fire Drill Fridays
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It's changed a lot since we first started.
You got arrested five times in last year.
Yeah.
It's called civil disobedience.
It's the only thing that's ever changed history.
I mean, look at Martin Luther King and Gandhi
and those students sitting in at the lunch counters breaking
rules that were bad rules.
Making good trouble.
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Oh, wow.
Can you tell me, what is Fire Drill Fridays?
Fire Drill Fridays is an action that we do every Friday.
And now we're doing it virtually--
for almost eight months we've been doing it virtually
and the numbers keep growing.
And we talk about some aspect of the climate crisis.
And then we ask people to volunteer.
And we have thousands and thousands
of people calling and writing potential voters,
asking people who didn't vote last time to vote.
Talking to the Latinx community, telling them
why it's so important to vote.
So we've touched close to two million people--
two million voters--
Oh, that's awesome.
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That's awesome.
Yeah.
Now, you know--
It's great.
--Sharon Stone and I we're in this movie
together that Billy Crystal was directing.
And Sharon summons me to her hotel room
and said that you and her were doing
this thing on Fridays in DC and you guys were protesting.
I was like, Oh protesting?
Yeah.
I'm down for that.
What y'all protesting?
And she's, like you gotta come with us, and we're doing this
and we're doing that.
And it's going to be really amazing.
And at the end we get arrested.
And I was like, arrested?
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Hold up, girlfriend.
That's not something I voluntarily go to do, OK?
And she was like, we'll be out by Saturday.
I said, no, you'll be out by Saturday because you
a white woman with some money.
I'm a Black woman just coming up now.
They gonna keep me in there for a few weeks.
My fingerprints been some places, OK?
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I had to let her know.
You're absolutely right.
It was very different because I'm famous and white.
[LAUGHS] Yes.
And most of the people that got arrested with me-- not all.
There were some people of color and Black people.
Many indigenous people that got arrested.
But I understand the situation is very, very different.
I understand that.
Yeah.
But it got people to notice.
You know, it's like, she's 82 years old
and she's getting arrested?
Well I can do that.
Yeah.
And people started coming from all over the country.
It was so great.
Wow.
Oh yeah, that's the first time.
I didn't know enough to tell them to put my hands behind me.
[LAUGHS] That's how you know you white, see?
Cause they would have put your hands behind your back,
your shoulder would have been messed up.
They was like, it's, Miss Fonda here.
From the front.
Go ahead, darling.
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Recently you brought back the Jane Fonda workout
to try and get people to vote, but--
As [INAUDIBLE] to vote.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think we both agree that local races are
what's really important, right?
Voting locally.
Like, who's running locally, right?
It's called down ballot.
It's really important.
Not just to vote for president and vice president and Senate.
But the Sheriff, the District Attorney, the judges,
city council, boards of supervisors,
all of those things are really critical.
Because whatever's going in Washington--
if you've got good people locally--
you could make it.
We can make it.
And that's true for the climate crisis, too.
You know, who's ever in Washington,
we have to try to make them do what's right.
But locally, we can get a lot done.
Yes.
I'm so about that.
I am 110% about that.
You know, Jane?
I went ahead and made sure I met every single council member
for the City of Los Angeles.
And then I make sure I call my councilman from my district--
I live in the 9th District here in Los Angeles--
I call him probably about every two weeks.
Get on his last nerve.
I'm like, what y'all doing for us now?
What's up with these potholes over here?
What's going on--
Did you see the [BLEEP] on the street over there?
Did you see-- Like, I'm probably a bugaboo.
[LAUGHTER]
Right.
Well we got to deal with the homeless issue.
And I'm--
Yes, definitely.
--supporting a woman named Nithya Raman
who's running for City Council in Los Angeles.
And she's an example of somebody that's
really very, very powerful and can do something
about the homeless issue.
Yes.
Well I'm definitely there for it.
I'm actually voting for her, too, so.
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Let's talk about your new book called What Can I Do?
This book is great cause a lot of people
are worried about climate change but feel helpless to stop it.
And it is like, what can I do?
What can one little person like me do to make it better, Jane?
I'll tell you what to do.
Go to firedrillfriday.com/vote.
Uh-huh.
And not only will it answer all your questions about voting--
and voting is absolutely critical--
this is the most important election ever.
And I've been through a lot of them.
And it will also allow you to sign up as a volunteer.
We have thousands of volunteers who
are doing incredible things to make sure that the people who
care about climate are going to vote
and they'll vote for the climate.
So that's the most important thing you can do right now.
Firedrillfriday.com/vote.
OK.
Now, let me tell you something.
Everybody make sure y'all go to firedrillfriday.com/vote
and make sure you vote.
And I've already filled out all my stuff to vote
and sent it in.
I did everything I needed to do to vote because I know
I'm going to be leaving the country
and I won't be able to go to the booths,
so I went ahead and did my thing and I voted.
Now, in the book you talk about the fact
that communities of color are impacted by climate change
more than most communities.
And why is that?
Well for one thing, the fossil fuel industry and the fracking
and the wells and the refineries and the incinerators
are located in communities of color.
Do you know what they're called?
The fossil fuel industry calls them sacrifice zones.
What?
It's like, screw them.
The people of color, we don't care.
They assume that those people don't have power
to complain when they start dying of cancer and heart
attacks and things like that.
Girl.
So already there's the problem of asthma and lung diseases
and heart issues and cancer because of where they live.
Because of the fossil fuel industry.
So a pandemic comes along--
pew-- goes to the most vulnerable people.
Girl, you just opened my eyes.
Because where I live, there are oil wells and there are like--
there's all that stuff over there.
Like, ah.
Oh, honey, come and live with me.
I don't want you living by an oil well.
We're trying to force Gavin Newsom to create a health
buffer of 2,500 feet between any oil well
and home or church or school or playground.
Maybe you can help me put pressure on him.
Oh, I definitely am going to help you with that.
Definitely you'll be getting my help 110%, Jane.
110%.
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Here I come, Gavin Newsom.
Get ready.
Got me living in a sacrifice zone.
I'm over here thinking I'm staying in my hood
because I love it over there.
This is where I grew up.
And I didn't even know it was a sacrifice zone.
Oh my-- girl.
Don't-- Give me the strength.
Now, I'm a big fan of Grace and Frankie, OK?
Huge fan.
And you guys had to stop filming last season because of COVID.
Now when do you go back to work?
I need to know, because I love the show.
We go back the end of January, I think.
And we have a bunch more still to do.
We only got about four of them done before COVID.
You know, I kind of feel like maybe I forgot how to act.
What?
Well I guess it's like riding a bike or sex.
It comes right back, right.
Exactly, exactly.
Comes right back to you.
Don't you worry, girl.
You're going to be right back up on there.
And I know some handsome fellas if you're interested.
We'll talk.
OK.
One more reason for you to come over for dinner.
Yes.
Now Jane's book, What Can I Do? is available now
everywhere books are sold.
And today, you're all getting a copy of the book.
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Yes.
We'll be back, guys.
We'll be back.