Jane Fonda gave a passionate speech defending the First Amendment on Sunday night at the star-studded Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment. The event, held at The Town Hall in New York, was organized by the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that originally formed in 1947 during the McCarthy era but was recently revived by Fonda. “Right now, the government and its cronies [are] routinely violating its First Amendment to silence artists,” she said onstage. “Shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center,  efunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, and banning books, canceling TV, hosts who speak out. It’s really bad. And it’s being allowed by cowardly corporations. I’m not gonna name names right now.…