There’s a climate crisis that’s a real emergency and so, whether you’re on your couch or your yoga mat, will you join me for the virtual Fire Drill Fridays?” Rubbing her hands together, she pleads, “What I would really like for you to do is workout with me for the planet. “You know what,” she remarks, now dressed in a puffy red jacket, “There’s too many workouts happening right now on television and on computers.” However, she abruptly changes her tune by revealing that it was a stunt to bring the globe’s attention to another crisis besides COVID-19, which is climate change. Laying on her side, the 82-year-old starts the exercise off with a round of leg lifts. While she left the sparkle spandex suit, the sweat bands and big hair at home, she opted for comfortable black yoga pants and a fitted long-sleeved red shirt. The VHS workout tapes sold 17 million copies during their run in the early 80s. “Hello TikTok, my name’s Jane Fonda and I’m gonna bring back the Jane Fonda Workout for your home sequestration,” she announces in the video, where she’s all ready and dressed for an intense round of choreography. The Grace & Frankie star rolled out her yoga mat to make the big announcement on Thursday. The actress, who ignited a side-career in aerobics with her popular Jane Fonda Workout Method, is bringing her famous moves to TikTok in order to keep fans on their feet during quarantine. It taught me an early lesson that still holds true: To win campaigns, we have to listen first, seek to understand, and then begin to develop a strategy that will move people to act.ABC/Randy Sager(LOS ANGELES) - Jane Fonda is bringing back the 80s.

And getting my start in Bakersfield taught me to listen to and learn from people who might seem quite different from me.

I’m still driven by the energy and possibility that comes from talking to people about the issues that matter most in their lives. I still call my Bakersfield friends to test messages that are aimed at the so-called heartland.

But that campaign had an enormous impact on my career. He haunted the statehouse for another 14 years. It was the first time I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life.ĬED did help Tom Hayden get elected to the State Assembly that year, but Fonda’s money and my campaign slogan wasn’t enough to unseat Don Rogers. I saw how the best communication starts with listening, not talking. And seeing a skilled politician turn skepticism into heartfelt conversations about people’s daily concerns gave me a taste for the power of smart communications. My anger at Bakersfield’s reactionary politics morphed as I discovered that people’s everyday concerns transcended partisanship. I remember that rush of success when we talked someone into taking our flyer and maybe even voting for John. Knocking on doors with John hooked me on politics. I even created my first political message, coming up with one of the campaign slogans: “Where there’s a Means, there’s a way!” It was time for change in California and we were the vanguard! So, we hit the streets of Bakersfield, clipboards in hand and change in our heart. citizen.” I guess overt racism didn’t bother the Bakersfield voters who elected him six times!īut it bothered the John Means campaign as we gathered in my living room. His opponent was Don Rogers, who was straight from central casting filed under “Central Valley conservative Republican.” Rogers later claimed that he didn’t need to pay federal taxes because he “held a 'white man's citizenship' and was not a U.S.

So I became the youngest volunteer on the 1982 campaign to elect Democrat John Means to the State Assembly. As a teenager, I loved the campaign energy, the sense of fighting the good fight, and most of all, the Star Wars Cantina feel of the various lefties who, for one reason or another, ended up in deeply red Bakersfield. They built a grassroots organization called Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED) and, thanks to my Dad’s involvement, my living room was essentially Kern County chapter HQ. In California, the early-1980s power-progressive couple was Tom Hayden (of the Chicago 7) and Jane Fonda, who had just begun minting money by selling workout videos.

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