Peace Work, War Myths

Jane Fonda's innovative activism against the war in Vietnam created new forms of antiwar politics. Fonda was instrumental in setting up the G. I. Office, a national investigative clearing house for complaints of officer harassment by antiwar GIs. She organized the Free the Army troupe, a popular antiwar revue that performed near army bases across the United States and in the Pacific. She traveled to Hanoi, carned family mail to imprisoned American pilots, met with some of them and returned with their antiwar message. She funded and organized the Indochina Peace Campaign which continued to mobilize antiwar activists across the nation after the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement when most other antiwar organizations closed down. The White House and the FBI took especial umbrage at her activism and she was monitored, harassed, and even falsely imprisoned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During the war in Vietnam, the FBI and the Pentagon spread lies about Jane Fonda that, in the climate of resentment over the “lost” Vietnam war, have thrived in some right‐wing quarters and even crept into popular memory

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