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Hace 3 días · Tom Hayden, later Senator Hayden, was in the immense crowd that heard King that day. After being inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On The Road to hitchhike across America, Hayden became a Civil Rights activist and spent some time in jail. There he drafted what would become the 1962 Port Huron Statement, a manifesto for Students for a Democratic Society:
Hace 15 horas · There was the famous Tom Dooley, a doctor who went to Southeast Asia. But the ... [The editor of the Daily was Tom Hayden an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in ... They had become good friends during the campaign. Wofford had worked as Kennedy’s adviser on civil rights, and together they had worked on the ...
Hace 2 días · Across the country, college and university students have established Gaza Solidarity Encampments on their campuses to protest what they see as their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s indiscriminate warfare against Gaza, only to be met in some cases with police repression, arrests, and violence. These encampments can be seen as part of a ...
Hace 15 horas · Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, and their son Troy Garity. Credit: William S. Murphy. Tom Hayden — whom I knew in California and who died in 2016 — stepped away from revolutionary politics later in life. But as Konciewicz reports, “He never retreated from believing that wars, and other forms of official violence, were to blame for social disorder.”
Hace 2 días · Along with more than 700 or so other protesters, including Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden – who coined the slogan “Create two, three, many Columbias” – I was arrested on the Columbia campus ...
Hace 5 días · The rally itself occurred on September 29 of that year, and featured speeches from Fonda, folk singer Holly Near, anti-war activist and former California state senator Tom Hayden, and a Vietnamese girl named Li-On Thieu.
Hace 3 días · In the 1962 Port Huron Statement, which became the iconic text of ‘60s protests, Tom Hayden denounced boring and irrelevant courses that ignored nuclear disarmament, racial injustice, and other pressing contemporary questions.
