In protest against climate change, the "clown" was arrested.
According to CNN, on January 10, local time, the new Golden Globe award-winning film emperor Joaquin Phoenix was arrested while participating in a climate change protest in front of the Washington Capitol, and the organizer of the event was Oscar actress Jane Fonda, who was previously arrested for the same reason.
Joaquin Phoenix in the middle of the parade
The climate change protest, called Fire Drill Fridays, is held every Friday in Washington and has been held for 13 weeks, with the theme of this week being an initiative for financial institutions to fund the fossil fuel industry.
As the organizer of the event, 82-year-old Oscar actress Jane Fonda invited a large number of celebrity friends to support her on January 10, which was also her last event before returning to Los Angeles.
According to the New York Times, on October 11 last year, Jane Fonda and 16 other people were arrested by police on charges of "gathering, obstructing or obstructing." Congressional police said in a subsequent statement that Washington, D.C. law prohibits demonstrators from obstructing entrances to public buildings. Afterwards, Jane Fonda paid bail and was released.
According to CNN reported on January 10, the U.S. Congressional Police Department confirmed on the same day that during this week's event, another 147 people were arrested, and they were charged with "gathering, obstructing or obstructing." But the police did not provide a specific list of those arrested.
Still, Jane Fonda, Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen, the actor who plays the president of the United States in "The West Wing," were among those arrested.
Martin Sheen (Stills from "The White House")
A week ago, on January 5, when Phoenix, 45, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for the film Joker, he talked about the importance of tackling the climate crisis. In his acceptance speech, he said thanking the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association for providing an all-vegetarian menu at the awards ceremony, a practice that is "aware of and acknowledges the relationship between livestock and climate change."
Stills from the movie Joker
"Even the clowns are advocating climate change!" The official tweet of the Friday Fire Drill campaign read, "Jacqueline Phoenix points to the meat and dairy industry as the third biggest cause of the climate crisis." ”
According to CBS, Phoenix also called on protesters at the day's event: "You can do something [to combat climate change] by choosing your consumption, and act today, now or tomorrow." ”
Jane Fonda (left) and Jacqueline Phoenix (right)
Phoenix's concerns about the meat and dairy industries are justified. A December 2019 United Nations report noted that greenhouse gas emissions from the slaughter of farmed animals account for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition to Jane Fonda and Jacqueline Phoenix, actors Martin Sim, Susan Sarandon, Joan Diane Rafael, supermodel Amber Valita and hundreds of climate activists, in addition to Jane Fonda and Jacqueline Phoenix, participated in the marches and protests in front of the Capitol and Chase Bank in Washington that day, according to video shown on the day.