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  • Screen actors stand up for Jane Fonda : a speech by Kathleen Nolan

    On July 20, 1979, the California State Senate overwhelmingly rejected the appointment of Jane Fonda to the California Arts Council. The Screen Actors Guild’s Hollywood Branch was outraged and passed a resolution calling for the censure of the 28 members of the California Senate who blocked Fonda’s appointment. Before the vote, SAG’s first female president,…

  • Ed Asner on social change / interviewed by David Barsamian.

    Actor Ed Asner discusses his work with Medical Aid for El Salvador, media reporting of Central American events, the cancellation of the Lou Grant show, and the politics of the Screen Actors Guild (including the activities of former Presidents of SAG, Charlton Heston and Ronald Reagan).