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mtboone
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 Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:00 am Post subject: Jane Fonda's tour |
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Dear Everyone,
We were able just today to get the itinerary for Jane Fonda's book
signing tour. We are encouraging all Vietnam Veterans and their family,
as well as all concerned Americans, to protest her signings.
This is Operation Street Corner, now used for another traitor, Jane
Fonda. Watch the Operation Street Corner website for pictures and
information about our protests (http://operationstreetcorner.com/). There
is nothing posted yet, as we are getting the word out first to our email
listservers.
Thank you so much for your time and help! I will be sending out
additional information about Jane soon.
See Hanoi Jane's schedule below to find the time and location nearest
you. She will be in Atlanta, GA tomorrow (April 12) and the next day.
- Amanda Doss
Jane H. Fonda's Book Signing Tour:
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4/12/2005
Borders Books
3637 Peachtree Road NE, Suite C
Atlanta, GA 30319
404-237-0707
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4/13/2005
Noon
The Commerce Club Fundraiser
34 Broad Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30303
404-525-1661 x514
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4/14/2005
National Press Club
529 14th St NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045
202-662-7509
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4/15/2005
12:30 pm
Trover Shop
221 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-2665
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4/15/2005
7 pm
Olsson's Books & Records
2111 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-525-4227
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4/16/2005
1 pm
Borders Books
11301 Rockville Pike
Kensington, MD 20895
301-816-1067
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4/17/2005
2:30 pm
Page One Newstand
11018 Montgomery Blvd., NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
800-521-4122
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4/18/2005
3 pm
Sam's Club
301 Coit Road
Plano, TX 75075
972-612-8041
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4/18/2005
7 pm
Books-A-Million
3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway - Suite 231 Grapevine
Mills Mall
Grapevine, TX 76051
972-539-0636
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4/19/2005
7 pm
Rainy Day Books
2706 W. 53rd Street
Fairway, KS 66205
913-384-4508
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4/20/2005
7 pm
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
Wayzata, MN 55391
952-473-8341
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4/22/2005
7:30 pm
Book Stall at Chestnut Court
811 Elm Street
Winnetka, IL 60093
847-446-8880
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4/23/2005
7 pm
H.W. Schwartz Bookshop
219 N. Milwaukee Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414-270-3434 x117
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4/24/2005
5 pm
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Avenue
Capitola, CA 95010
831-462-4415
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415-441-6670
4/25/2005
A Clean Well Lighted
Place for Books
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
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4/26/2005
7:30 pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-595-3456 x205
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4/27/2005
1 pm
Costco
4401 4th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
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4/27/2005
6 pm
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Seattle, WA 98155
206-366-3333
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5/9/2005
Harvard Coop (B&N)
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-499-2000
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5/10/2005
R.J. Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443
203-245-3959
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5/16/2005
Noon
Tattered Cover
Bookstore
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202
303-436-1070
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7/23/2005
9:30 am
Garcia Street Books
376 Garcia Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-986-0151
Get out in force and let her know your "displeasure"
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blue9t3
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:38 am Post subject: |
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Gosh, I hope nobody spills any coffee on her books! 
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gmez2001
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Thanks for the post Terry.
I'll be in LA tomorrow for a week or so. Sure would be nice to stop in and give her an ear full. Checked the map out and it looks like all of the book signing location are in LEFT wing headquarters San Francisco,Oakland and Santa Clara areas.
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Well now just to watch my local Protest Warrior chapter to see if they're going to plan anything and if they aren't, I'll just go it alone, if I can.
I'm going to make a big sign - Vietnamese slaughtered and drowning on one side - so much for her peace-loving communist support and Vietnam POW's on the other. "Who's the liar and hypocrite?" and "One non-apology was enough!"
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tony54
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Time is not on her side.
She will soon be somewhere where she will be welcomed with open arms.
Benito, Joseph, Adolph, are patiently awaiting her.
Like I said before:
Life is like a blink of an eye, but HELL is for eternity! |
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Nutso
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Location: Minnesota
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| She will be in my neighborhood on the 20th, and I may try and make it, but I am recovering from 2 recent spine fusion surgeries and may not be able to. If there is anyone else from Minnesota able to go, do it. |
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Leeman
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I'll be ready here in CT. on May 10th I am an hour away from Madison, CT. I guess one word on a sign should be enough "TRAITOR"
I wil post results & turnout etc. for the CT appearance. |
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Tom Poole
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Great find and post mtboone! I hope you don't mind that I linked your post to a less complete one I posted at Chronwatch.
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kate
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so... what's she saying while on this tour?  alert
| Quote: | NewsMax
Thursday, April 7, 2005 10:19 a.m. EDT
Jane Fonda Protesting War Again
Another war - another protest from Jane Fonda.
Fonda was on CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" Wednesday night and Letterman asked how she feels about the war in Iraq. Fonda got a big hand from Letterman's audience when she said: "I think the war is wrong. I think it's a mistake and I think that we should get out."
Letterman had just held up the infamous photo of Fonda sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Fonda, who is promoting her autobiography, "My Life So Far," said she is the "lightning rod" for the still-open wounds of the Vietnam War and she feels "sad about that."
Fonda told Letterman her image as Hanoi Jane is a creation of ideologues to "promulgate their right-wing, narrow worldview. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it's kind of sick." |
| Quote: | OxfordPress
Fonda blasts government "lies," reprises old role
By MARILYN GEEWAX
Cox News Service Friday, April 15, 2005
WASHINGTON Back in the spotlight with her blockbuster autobiography, actress Jane Fonda reprised her role as a provocateur Thursday, condemning the "lies" that led the United States into the Vietnam War, as well as Iraq. Speaking to the National Press Club, she blamed reporters for not doing a better job of informing Americans about the reasons for the two wars.
"Perhaps we would not have been so ready to believe the lies that got us into Iraq if the American public had been made aware of previous governmental lies about war," she said. Fonda, who gained notoriety as a Vietnam War protester, has become the nation's best-selling author with her recently released autobiography, "My Life So Far."
She has told interviewers that she cringes when she recalls her impassioned anti-war rants in the early 1970s, writing in her book that she wanted to shout, "Will somebody please tell her to shut up?"
But before an audience of a couple hundred Washington insiders, reporters and political operatives, she returned to her soapbox.
After emphasizing that she had made a terrible mistake by posing for photos on an anti-aircraft gun with North Vietnamese soldiers who were fighting Americans, the 67-year-old Oscar-winning actress said she does not apologize for opposing the war.
She said the purpose of her trip to Hanoi was to help expose "the flood-and-starve tactic of U.S. bombing of the system of dikes, on which food and life depend." If U.S. journalists had reported more about how such bombing stopped a month after her trip, it "might have encouraged more activism and brought the war to a halt earlier."
She suggested the current Bush administration repeated the mistake of going to war to avoid appearing "unmanly." Unfortunately, there are some so wedded to the notion of American omnipotence that they claim the right to destroy any regime they don't like, scoff at the United Nations and consider it 'reflexive submission' to adhere to international law," she said.
She said presidents who continue to wage wars do so because they fear being "blamed for premature evacuation." She said foreign policy should be guided by compassion and humility. "But these approaches are considered 'effeminate' by the men who currently run our country. There's a lot of talk about Christian values these days, but I wonder if Christ returned, would he be labeled effeminate by these same people?"
Fonda, who teared up several times at the start of her speech, was joined at the head table by feminist Gloria Steinem, whom she said "inspired me." |
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KansasCity Star
Sunday April 17,2005
Fonda, finally comfortable
Actress-activist reflects on feminine experience by recounting her struggles with self-worth
By JOHN MARK EBERHART The Kansas City Star
~snip~
If you grow up as a child feeling you are good enough the way you were, then you're not so vulnerable to these messages, she says now. But a lot of girls are like me. I think the most important thing I convey is to put into context what they're feeling to say, This isn't your individual problem that you feel these anxieties, that you're having these problems when you enter adolescence.' There's a broad social context for this, and you have to resist it.
It's hard, and in some ways it's harder for men, because the names they're called when they try to resist are so (terrible).
I think the Vietnam War didn't end sooner because all the leaders were afraid of being called soft.
Ah yes, the Vietnam War. For more than three decades now, Fonda has been the object of rage for her opposition to the war, and also for what many veterans still see as her blatant even treasonous methods of protesting it.
My Life So Far offers no apologies for her belief, which she still holds, that a series of American presidents began, escalated and prolonged a war that went awry. But Fonda does apologize for some things she did, including that notorious incident involving an anti-aircraft gun.
I wanted to expose the lies of the Nixon administration and help stop the killing on both sides, she writes. I believe (my) trip made it harder for Nixon to distract the public's attention from his escalation of the air war
I do regret that I allowed myself to get into a situation where I was photographed on an anti-aircraft gun.
it sent a message that was the opposite of what I was feeling and doing.
Some veterans aren't buying it. Since its April 5 release, her book has provoked more than 30 commentaries on amazon.com, with an average customer rating of 3 1/2 stars out of five but some of the one-star reviews have been scathing: The fact of the matter is (the) woman committed treason 35 years ago, one Vietnam vet writes. And that is not forgivable.
Others disagree. One five-star review writer states, To those who still call her Hanoi Jane': have you never made a mistake in your life?
And Fonda continues to have dialogues with veterans.
I have a letter right here that was e-mailed yesterday to my office. He said, I saw you on TV this morning, wanted to say bless you, and for what it's worth, I forgive you. You may have used a little poor judgment at times but your heart was in the right place. Anyway, I think you're one hell of a lady. Disabled Vietnam Vet.'
Fonda realizes there will be those who will never offer her such olive branches: I know, and it's sad that they're stuck back there.
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| Quote: | DenverPost
Sunday, April 17, 2005 Fonda, "lightning rod," icon
Actress recounts troubles with men and myths of Vietnam
By Dylan Foley
Special to The Denver Post
~snip~
Fonda's anti-war activism makes for riveting reading. She worked with active-duty GIs who were against the fighting in Vietnam for two years before she went to Hanoi. "This part of history has been written out of the history books," said Fonda. "There was a vast, vibrant movement in the military ranks against the war. Many of the Vietnam veterans were against the war. (President) Nixon said that he was going to end the war, but he was lying to us."
Also cut out from the history books is Fonda's reasons for going to Hanoi. The U.S. government was bombing vital dikes on the Red River Delta. American analysts had projected that 200,000 Vietnamese civilians would drown if the dikes were destroyed.
"I wouldn't have known the importance of the dikes being bombed if it wasn't for the Pentagon Papers," said Fonda, referring to the secret government study of decision-making in the Vietnam War. "(President) Johnson, to his credit, had a chance to bomb the same dikes, but didn't. We were hearing from French and Swedish journalists that we were bombing the dikes. I thought people would notice if I went."
Fonda recounted the controversial photo op as if it were yesterday. "On the last day, I went out to the gun emplacement," she said. "The soldiers sang this song, and the words were translated for me as, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident,' from our Declaration of Independence. I was blown away, and was laughing and crying. I sang a song back. People were laughing and clapping. I was escorted over to the anti-aircraft gun, and I sat down. We were still laughing and clapping. Cameras were clicking. It wasn't until I was walking away that I realized, 'My God, this image is going to look like I was trying to shoot down American planes."'
She shrugs off the excuse that she was roped into a propaganda trick by the North Vietnamese. "I have to take responsibility for this," she said. "I was a grown-up. The image conveyed nothing of who I was, what I was thinking or doing as an individual, but I have to live with it for the rest of my life."
As the memoir starts to climb the best-seller lists, the Internet has been flooded with old stories that Fonda's Hanoi visit led to American POWs being killed by their captors. The stories are false, but they still are circulated.
Fonda is sanguine about the myths. "With Vietnam, the photo was real," she said. "I have to own it, but the 'betrayal' was not real. There are ideologues who need me and this myth of betrayal to promote a right-wing view of the war and the world." |
hmm....guess she thinks leaders should get more in touch with their feminine side, since she calls them soft and effeminate, then and now....
and that Hanoi Jane image...well it just makes her sick...dontcha know...to be used like that
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| Quote: | | Fonda told Letterman her image as Hanoi Jane is a creation of ideologues to "promulgate their right-wing, narrow worldview. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it's kind of sick." |
If she can say this with a straight face, she really is clueless. 
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| LewWaters wrote: | | If she can say this with a straight face, she really is clueless. |
Yep, exactly! That's why I corrected her book cover for her....  she's still in la-la land! Still doesn't get it.
But apparently the book is selling well enough and she's getting good enough receptions at her events that her rhetoric is hardening as she goes.
Everything in her little world is still supporting her delusions.
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| Was switching thru channels today and saw the bit@%#s face on C-Span 2 Book reviews (National Press Club 4-14-05). Caught the last part of it and actually got ill. She is the one who is a SICK excuse for a human. |
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Pictures of Fonda protest in Dallas/Grapevine
http://www.operationstreetcorner.com/FondaDallas1.htm
Pictures of Fonda protest in New Mexico
http://www.operationstreetcorner.com/FondaNewMexico.htm
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Copied from http://www.luckydawgnews.com/
Lucky Dawg Webmaster, Chris Williams, giving
Hanoi Jane a warm, New Mexico welcome.
| Quote: | Local Veterans and Lucky Dawg
News Confront Hanoi Jane in
Albuquerque New Mexico
On Sunday, April 17th, at 2:30 PM, local Vietnam
veterans and Lucky Dawg News disrupted a Jane Fonda
book signing at a local bookstore, Page One Book
Store.
At 2 PM, the protest kicked off to a very small line of
people (I use that term loosely) waiting to have their
books autographed by Fonda. The group resembled
the type of garbage that showed up at Howard Dean
rallies. Their political persuasions highlighted by the
John Kerry for President stickers on their Volvos and
Subarus. Local veterans shouted, "No shame. No
Shame." Some of the Vietnam vets walked over to
the people in line and passed out leaflets and engaged
the Fonda lemmings with very polite discussion, At the
front of the line, either Fonda's people or bookstore
employees began to insult the veterans. Insults ranged
from the vets being fake veterans, or not having ever
served in Vietnam, to being President Bush's war
mongers. I witnessed these honorable men receiving
the same disgusting treatment they got when they
returned home all over again. Once again, they took
the abuse with quiet dignity. It made me sick to live in
the same city with people like these that dishonor their
soldiers.
I held up my sign and took some snap shots. I used my
Motorola v-710 Verizon phone. I spoke
with the various vets and felt honored to be in their
presence. |
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