LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star and activist Jane Fonda is planning to take a bus tour across America to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Fonda, who earned the nickname Hanoi Jane after she was photographed sitting on a north Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun at the height of Vietnam war, said she would be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter on the tour. “I’m coming out,” she said at a New Mexico appearance promoting her autobiography, explaining Iraq veterans encouraged her to break her silence. “I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage from that.” Fonda’s tour in March would use a bus run on vegetable oil. — The Guardian