People: Feb. 12, 2007

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FIGHTIN' FONDA, THEN AND NOW

Clearly JANE FONDA knows what to wear to an antiwar rally: shaggy bangs, a smart turtleneck and a look of steely determination. In what she said was her first such protest in 34 years, the actress joined marchers in Washington to demand that U.S. troops leave Iraq. "Silence is no longer an option," Fonda said to cheers from the crowd. Dubbed Hanoi Jane by conservatives for her stance on Vietnam (that's her in 1970, left, in Valley Forge, Pa.), Fonda said she had restrained her Iraq activism so as not to be a distraction for the contemporary antiwar movement but finally felt the need to speak out. The march was also attended by such lefty stalwarts as Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn--as well as tens of thousands of people who have never been in a movie.