Jane Fonda protests Dakota Access Pipeline on 79th birthday
Actress Jane Fonda spent her 79th birthday protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and her birthday gift to herself was taking her money out of Wells Fargo bank.
"As a customer of your bank, I reject the notion of my money helping to support your investment in the Dakota Access Pipeline," Fonda announced as a surrounding crowd cheered.
Actress Susan Sarandon helped launch the divestment campaign against DAPL supporting banks.
And several months ago, musician Neil Young's birthday gift to himself was to travel to the water protectors' encampment at Standing Rock Sioux to express solidarity, with his partner, actress Daryl Hannah, at his side.
Sarandon is a Beyond Nuclear Launch Partner, and Young -- along with Crosby, Stills, and Nash -- has invited Beyond Nuclear and other anti-nuke groups to info. table at CSNY concerts for many years, via the Guacamole Fund and Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) network.
Two more MUSE artists associated with the Guacamole Fund, Bonnie Raitt (another Beyond Nuclear Launch Partner) and Jackson Browne, who have invited Beyond Nuclear to info. table at their concerts on many occassions, have also travelled to Standing Rock Sioux. In fact, they played a benefit and morale boosting concert there on Nov. 27, 2016, Thanksgiving Day weekend, just a week after the most violent police riot to date, in which 300 water protectors were injured, some critically.
December 23, 2016