Los Angeles City Hall was packed with hundreds of climate change activists and several celebrities Friday morning.
Though their backgrounds were diverse — speakers ranged from indigenous community leaders to actors Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix — they all shared a unifying message: “Our house is on fire” and the climate crisis must be confronted.The participants congregated for the city’s first Fire Drill Friday, an ongoing environmental activism movement that was spearheaded by Fonda and Greenpeace last year.
Fonda, a lifelong activist who supported the Civil Rights Movement and opposed the Vietnam and Iraq wars, has dedicated much of the last few months to the movement; she moved to Washington D.C.
and started protesting outside the Capitol every Friday to urge elected officials to address the planet’s ongoing climate crisis.Though filming duties for Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie” required Fonda to move back to Los Angeles, she
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