the “Book Club: The Next Chapter” actress said at the Cannes Film Festival.“It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop.
We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men [behind this].”The two-time Oscar winner added that climate change would not be possible without racism or the patriarchy, in which “white men,” she said, are at the top.“It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism.
There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way,” she argued. “White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”The 85-year-old actress has made headlines for her activism since the Vietnam War, when critics branded her “Hanoi Jane” for posing on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun that made it seem like she would shoot down US planes.Meanwhile, at Cannes, the “80 For Brady” star urged everyone to rally around environmental justice.“It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here.
That’s what I learned when I started being an activist around the Vietnam War,” she said.“The more you go down any issue, whatever it is, you realize that it’s all connected.
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