Now 81, Fonda said she plans to get arrested every Friday to advocate for urgent reduction in the use of fossil fuels. ADGetting arrested in 2019, poses some entirely new challenges, Fonda told The Associated Press in an interview. These days, “they use white plastic things on your wrists instead of metal handcuffs, and that hurts more,” she said. ADADLeslie Wharton, 63, from Bethesda, Maryland, sat out the Vietnam War protests that drew out Fonda. Lots of people of all ages are worried about climate change and want to do something, Wharton said, but “us elders are retired or part-time.

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2019 12:23 UTC