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Yeah, yeah. The program you just saw was made by the BBC two years ago and I've been asked to helped to update it for this showing. I'm jane fonda's father I guess you think to say I'm a proud father fact is I'm in total all of

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her. She's not only one of the finest actresses working today on top of all this. Gene is a political activist of the highest ideals and the courage of her convictions. I don't take any credit for any of this. I didn't preach politics to my Children, but

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I like to think that they were brought up right. Oscar Hammerstein said it in a lyric. You have to be taught to hate. Well jane learned to care. Do you wonder I'm proud of her? Yes, come in jane. My love PBS has asked me to ask

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you some questions to help update this program. How in the world do you organize your own activities to keep all these balls in the air without dropping them carefully? I'd do it carefully. We I guess though the best way I can answer that is to say

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yeah, that like you you try to integrate all parts of your life, your beliefs with your art and your work and your family. I uh huh You just showed this to me for those who are watching. I asked my father who is a yeah, a wonderful

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artist and painter to do a picture that we could make into a greeting card for the organization that I'm a part of and that he's a part of the campaign for Economic Democracy. The book Grapes of Wrath is lying open and there's a magnifying glass lying

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over a particular passage and says on the companies the banks worked at their own doom and they did not know it. The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The great companies did not know that. The line between hunger and anger is a

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thin line. That's a strong statement that I think speaks to some of the realities in our country now. And you've integrated part of your life into making that statement. That's how you juggle all the balls. You just integrate them all. Yeah. In the film you said

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that the, the country needs a social and economic reorganization. What do you mean by that? Shall I give you my dream and the dream of a lot of people. I think growing numbers of people in this country, uh, in our dream and my dream, I would

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like to see a health system that was much more decentralized and that put much more emphasis not only on guaranteeing healthcare to everybody, rich and poor alike, but much more emphasis on prevention. You know, it's it's more costly to our society to spend the money to

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come up with cures for cancer. Then it would be if we very loudly and clearly said to the corporate executives that run the petrochemical industry and the nuclear industry, we will put you in jail if you continue to pollute our water, our air dump wastes in

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our cities and our countryside. If you continue to kill the people who work for you and increase the cancer epidemic that is sweeping our country, you just stop it at the at the root of the cause. It is critical to our future as a nation, I

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think, for us to work for the dream of windmills, solar energy, biomass conversion, gasohol bicycles cutting down on energy consumption, which we can do without destroying our quality of life. That's my dream. Mhm. With what would you substitute the corporate structure? I don't think you have

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to destroy the capitalist system in order to make it. Mhm. More democratic. There's nothing wrong with profit, for example, there's nothing wrong with private property. And there's no reason why big corporations, the big big big corporations can't continue to make a profit and be more responsible

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to the public's interest. They can be they may not want to be and if they don't want to be and refuse, then the public has a right to take matters into its own hands peacefully and democratically. Because of your anti Vietnam activities. You were called trader

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and treasonous. How do you react to that? And explain that there are interests in this country who seem absolutely bent upon keeping the controversy about my being patriotic or unpatriotic alive. They are the ones that continually accused me of being a communist and being a traitor.

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I am not a communist. You know that I'm now saying this to the camera because my dad knows this. I am. I consider myself a patriot. I've made mistakes in my life. It's true. But I do hope that if I just stick to what I believe

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and continue doing what I'm doing, that history will show that, uh, that I love my country and that I'm not a traitor. If America became involved today, an unpopular war, would you fight on the side of America? I would have fought in the war you fought

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in because we were being attacked by fascists. And I would tomorrow, uh, fight in a war in which our nation was. You know, the future of our nation was at stake. But I will always fight to stop a war that I think is only in the

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interests of the rich few and against the interests of the majority of people. How does the Woman's movement fit into all this? I'm I consider myself a feminist. I think the woman's movement is critical in helping women understand that they have the right to exist as

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equal beings, that they have the right to demand equal pay for equal work, that they cannot be treated like barbie dolls. We are human beings who are in a position to say we can lead the country into new kinds of priorities. That's what I think the

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Woman's Movement is about. PBS has asked me to comment on what it's like to be the parent of a political activists like jane. I have some close friends, even some close relatives who don't agree with jane. But of course that's their right. That's the name of

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the game in this democracy. And the bottom line is we lucky we have this democracy.