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   Tojanewithlove to All   
   77 and still beautiful . . .   
   13 Jun 15 15:47:06   
   
   From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Jane Fonda.  A beautiful woman with a good heart and a whole lot of love for   
   this planet.  Thanks for coming to our beautiful province, and speaking out to   
   protect its beauty.   
   ____________________________________   
      
   VANCOUVER -- The Canadian Press - Saturday, Jun. 13, 2015   
      
   'I hope I get arrested': Jane Fonda sides with First Nations against Kinder   
   Morgan pipeline   
      
      
   In 1970, Jane Fonda was arrested while marching with indigenous people during   
   the occupation of Fort Lawton in Seattle, Wa.   
      
   Forty-five years later, the Academy Award-winning actress says she's willing   
   to be placed in handcuffs again while defending British Columbia's coast from   
   oil tankers.   
      
   "I have a hit TV show now. If I get arrested it'll bring even more attention   
   to the issue," Fonda deadpanned in an interview with The Canadian Press. "I   
   hope I get arrested."   
      
   Fonda, currently starring in the Netflix comedy "Grace and Frankie," was in   
   Vancouver on Saturday to speak at a Greenpeace rally. Protesters at the "Toast   
   the Coast" event were planning to demonstrate against oil sands development,   
   tanker traffic and    
   Arctic drilling.   
      
   The tenacious activist said she stands with local First Nations who have   
   opposed Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which   
   would lay almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipe along an existing line from   
   Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C.   
      
   If approved by the National Energy Board, the project would triple the   
   pipeline's bitumen-carrying capacity to 890,000 barrels a day and increase the   
   number of tankers in Burrard Inlet seven-fold.   
      
   "I don't think it's going to happen," said Fonda. "What is just so moving to   
   me is that it's First Nations people who are at the front lines of stopping   
   the expansion and stopping the pipelines.   
      
   "Of course, oil companies are still trying to push them through and they will   
   continue to try. First Nations people - with a whole lot of us standing behind   
   them and alongside them - are going to try to stop it and I think we're going   
   to succeed."   
      
   The 77-year-old star said she was inspired by Canadian author Naomi Klein's   
   latest book, "This Changes Everything," which targets climate change as the   
   era's most pressing issue.   
      
   "It absolutely racked me and brought me back to the barricades. I'm going to   
   commit the rest of my life to stopping global warming by preventing fossil   
   fuels from being extracted," said Fonda.   
      
   She said development of the Alberta oil sands must stop, adding that she hopes   
   Canadians signal their opposition to the industry at the next federal election.   
      
   Fonda said she wants to be on the "right side of history" when it comes to   
   fossil fuels.   
      
   "Committing the rest of my life is no big deal, I don't have that much left,"   
   she quipped.   
      
   "But my grandchildren have a lot left and I want them to be able to feel proud   
   of me, to feel that ... I did every single possible thing I could do to make   
   their world a livable world."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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