{"id":7359,"date":"2009-01-26T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:15:54","slug":"fta-jane-fonda-fundraiser-for-ivaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7359","title":{"rendered":"FTA: Jane Fonda fundraiser for IVAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read the other day that the anti-war crowd are having trouble raising money because the average anti-war less-whackos are a bit reticent about criticizing the new president’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and less likely to give up their money to fund the more-whackos like IVAW, Code Pink and the old coots<\/span> at Vets For Peace. So they have to come up with more unique ways of tapping wallets.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I found a blurb about the possible return of Jane Fonda to a more active role in the anti-war movement. I sent the blurb to someone who emailed me back a Village Voice<\/a> article today that verified it;<\/p>\n

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How much more proof do you need to recognize that these clowns are trying to relive the 60’s? They’re screening a 37-year-old movie with the 72-year-old actress on hand to yammer about her anti-war antics with some 74-year-old guy who looks strangely like Jack Bauer. I wonder if they’ll have a Depends dispenser in the restrooms for the old coots<\/span>. But what does all of that have to do with us here at This Ain’t Hell? Well, buried in the short article is this;<\/p>\n

…a portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War, a nonprofit organization that advocates for ending the war and for providing help to returning service members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They left out the third bullet of the IVAW’s demands – that being reparations to the Iraqis for all of the hovels that got leveled and all of the “militants” who were forcibly demilitarized.<\/p>\n

It’s probably a bit of irony that the movie originally was released the year before combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and it’s being dusted off as a fund raiser for the Iraq Veterans Against the War the year before combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn.<\/p>\n

I’m feeling generous today so I caution the IVAW from depending on Fonda for her ability raise money with this from Wikipedia<\/a>;<\/p>\n

In [1972], Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.
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\nHer financial support to VVAW at this time was apparently not significant, as the organization ran out of money within a month, and one of its prominent leaders, John Kerry, was called upon to raise the necessary funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, if you guys are hoping to get a new club house on Jane’s fund raising abilities, you’d better lower your expectations a bit. Maybe she can raise enough for a down payment on new refrigerator so you can keep your Hot Pockets and your bottles of urine separate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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