âThe goal of man and society,â Hayden wrote, âshould be human independence: a concern not with . Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex … Sam & Dave classic written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Raitt contributed to a new album, If You're Going To The City: A Tribute To Mose Allison, which Tom Hayden Dies at 76 | Anti-War Activist Remembered. In the course of preparing the memorial, I reread many of his books and speeches, watched films, news footage and interviews of Tom that Troy and Barbara assembled and read letters that friends and colleagues of his were sending in about the impact Tom had on their lives. He died Sunday after a long illness, his wife said. George Regas, Frances Fitzgerald, Arthur Waskow, Cora Weiss, Taylor Branch, Bernadine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Danny Glover, Phil Donahue, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Peter Yarrow and Holly Near. . Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Tom had been able to see “ past their tattoos to who they really were” and made it possible for them to completely turn their lives around. Bonnie Raitt, a longtime friend and supporter of Tom’s, sang “Change is Gonna Come.”. I would like to welcome all Bonnie Raitt fans to this fansite about her. And it was ‘forever.’ He never stopped trying to make Democracy a reality. © Marina Chavez The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke (2008) Paperback ... Tom Hayden. I got pregnant during the tour in a motor home en route to Buffalo, NY. ... See MoreSee Less, Bonnie Raitt Bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson - Off The Road - HPR's All Things Considered, #BonnieRaitt Photo By Jim Shea In preparing a book of âalternate history,â I asked Hayden what would have been different had JFK lived and not escalated the war in Vietnam. Steve Earle, Bonnie Raitt & Boz Scaggs, Sammy Hagar (The Red Rocker), Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon, Joe Satriani, Los Lobos, Colin Hay and dozens more are joining to help friends and fans in Santa Cruz who need our help in recovering from 2020's historic devastating wildfires. Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, “It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when it’s over.” And that became CED: The California Campaign for Economic Democracy that got scores of progressives elected to state and local offices and many measures passed like Prop 65. Haydenâs ambiguity about âreform vs. revolutionâ showed most clearly in his move into politics. Yes, our ground troops were coming home but the air war was being escalated unbeknownst to most Americans and, in the south, our allies were imprisoning, torturing and corrupting Vietnamese civilians in our name. The parents understood and approved the defiance of their sons that night. In shifts of six or eightâa half-century has dimmed the exact memoryâcampaign aides, friends, colleagues, supporters took their turns. One of those was a 28-year-old man whose presence might have seemed puzzling at the least. Robert F. Kennedy '48 will not be at his 25th Harvard Reunion. . The group called itself Students for a Democratic Society, and Hayden was principal author of its manifesto, a 25,000 word declaration called the âPort Huron Statement.â. 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Hayden was dubbed "the liberal rebel" by George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times . Troy, edited a wonderful opening video called “Who the Hell is Tom Hayden?” and then started everything off with an emotional, funny and welcoming speech that really set the perfect tone. Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda, has died. By Dave Lawrence He’s not really against the war. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. The eight defendants—Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Lee Weiner—were … Hayden lived in Los Angeles and was married to his third wife, actress Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. Richard Fernandez, Judith Lerner, David McReynolds, Gerald Horne, Marcus Raskin, Rev. Hayden died in Santa Monica, California on October 23, 2016, aged 76, following a lengthy illness including a stroke. Tom Hayden was elected SDS president for the 1962–1963 academic year, but his wife Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden left Ann Arbor, and left him, heeding the call to return to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta. “I just played guitar and wanted to play in folk music clubs and have a small modest following.” He was 76. It was a profound departure from the doctrinaire, ideological view of the “old Left” and it brought hope and inspiration to a new generation of young activists who came together as SDS: Students for a Democratic Society. Tom Hayden, the anti-Vietnam War activist, “Chicago 7” member and former husband of the actress Jane Fonda has died at the age of 76. Hayden is the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California and is an outspoken critic of continuing global conflicts. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Among the most important progressive political figures of our era, he co-authored the historic SDS-founding Port Huron Statements in the early 1960’s, was a defendant in the trial of the legendary Chicago Seven, and went on to serve as a California State Senator. . From a working class family in Royal Oak, Michigan, a student and alter boy in the arch conservative Father Coughlin’s Temple of the Little Flower, Tom became editor of the prestigious Michigan Daily and, after reporting on the new Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the early 60’s, the civil rights bus boycotts and sit ins in the South, he stepped out from behind his notepad and became an organizer and builder of movements. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. He hired them to work on his Senate staff, and even traveled with them to El Salvador to witness the gang violence that forces so many young people to seek refuge in the US. Jackie Ward reports. As much as any figure of that era, he lived in a way crystallized by a quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: that âa man should share the passion and action of his time, on peril of being judged not to have lived.â And while Hayden is remembered by later generations, if at all, as a figure embedded in protest and upheaval, glimpsed as part of a black-and-white montage with Buffalo Springfield in the soundtrack and his ex-wife Jane Fonda occupying a somewhat larger share of the picture, he should more accurately be seen as a figure who embodied the complicated mix of aspirations, and some of the illusions, that affected so many in those times. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. But what struck me in a conversation with him was a sense of regret that the events of the 1960s had pulled him onto a path different from the one heâd imagined. ... Sen. Robert F. Kennedy… Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator. In this extended interview, Hayden speaks about how Texas "is going nowhere," the strength of the progressive spirit in the country and how what ails the US are social and political demarcations founded on histor, Tom Hayden – Democracy Against Empire | Bioneers. Martin Luther King Jr is gunned down by an assassin in Memphis, Robert F Kennedy is shot and killed in Los Angeles. ... Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in Los Angeles. We held the memorial at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Sunday February 19. People’s Park Protest & Riots, Speeches Tom Hayden, Mario Savio. President Kennedy's Last Trip to Miami, November 18, 1963 (Photo: Miami Herald) [Draft: Circulation Permitted; Not for Publication. (10/24/16). With the war over, Tom could see that the Watergate scandal had created cracks in the walls of the establishment and that now was the time for progressives to squeeze through those cracks and run for office. https://www.bonnieraitt.eu/wp-content/plugins/bookshelf-slider/. I didn’t realize at the time what a brave and controversial departure that was for the Peace Movement and how much heat Tom took from the left for adopting this educational, grassroots strategy with it’s congressional focus. Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. Looking at the document now is a striking reminder of just how different the early 1960s were from the later years in that decade. We distributed over a million pieces of educational literature. When Robert Kennedy died, Tom Hayden, a romantic radical, and Mayor Richard Daley, a city machine boss, wept. 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