Tom Hayden Dies at 76 | Anti-War Activist Remembered, http://img.youtube.com/vi/_qXP9q1OmcM/0.jpg. He believed in me, Sanchez told the audience as tears rolled down his cheeks. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, authoring the Port Huron Statement and standing trial in the Chicago Seven case. The three toured villages and factories and met with an American POW[who?] He was a troublemaker, and to this day hes a troublemaker., Troy Garity, the son of Hayden and Fonda, told the crowd it was slightly difficult being the son of a communist radical and Hanoi Jane, and having our house lit on fire well, not really, but almost., He choked up about video footage showing cops beating up his father and paid tribute to everybody in the movement who lost somebody.. His name was Salvador Allende, and he was, at that time, a senator in the Chilean government and the leader of its Socialist Party. Feel free to republish and share widely. The next morning, the first driver to give me a ride was surprised that I hadn't heard the news. Arhoolie Foundation celebrates it's 60th anniversary (1960-2020) with an online broadcast. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Document 86A: Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason) and Mary King, "Sex and Caste," November 18, 1965, Michael Finnegan (October 23, 2016). That year, with other SNCC women, Casey Hayden coauthored "Sex and Caste"[9] since regarded as a founding document of second-wave feminism. He was married to actress and social activist Jane Fonda for 17 years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity. (Hayden, teary- eyed, joined a small honor guard watching over RFKs casket at St. Patricks Cathedral, at midnight before the next days funeral. But that night we dashed by the hundreds into the streets cheering, singing and dancing. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrates it's 20th anniversary with an online broadcast titled Let The Music Play On. With the size of the crowd, it was difficult to flee. At the same time, most of these writers acknowledged that Soviet "socialism" was certainly no better, and probably even worse, than the corporate capitalism they challenged at home. Kristy Edmunds, Director of UCLAs Royce Hall, wrote this to me after the memorial. ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - JUNE 9: Pallbearers (including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson) carry the coffin of Senator Robert Kennedy to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery on June 9, 1968 in Arlington In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. Progressive values. John de Graaf, Outreach Director of The Happiness Initiative, has produced more than fifteen national PBS documentary specials and is the co-author of "Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--And How to Fight Back" (2014). And by whats known I mean I made that term up, Embracing the Jewish communitys refugee roots, Israel and the Internet Wars A Professional Social Media Review, The Invisible Student: A Tale of Homelessness at UCLA and USC, Youre Not a Bad Jewish Mom If Your Kid Wants Santa Claus to Come to Your House, No Labels: The Group Fighting for the Political Center, VBS Fusion Attracting a Younger Generation, Israeli Pilots Visit Special Needs Center, L.A. Federation Receives Groundbreaking Grant, Ticketmaster Criticism Intensifies After Ignoring Calls to Deplatform Farrakhan Event, White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Kicked Out of CPAC. I was with Tom when he visited Cesar Chavez to ask whether he should run for the U.S. Senate. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden taught numerous courses on social movements, two at Scripps Collegeone on the Long War and one on gangs in Americaand a course called "From the '60s to the Obama Generation" at Pitzer College. David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Hayden, and Bobby Seale. 1992Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp., Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. She had short dark hair and big eyes that seemed to be searching for something far away. [41] In his last years, however, he also described himself as "an archeological dig", noting the varied layers to his life, the many publications he produced, and the different ways future researchers would likely interpret his life and work.[29][42]. Even then, I felt a bit sorry for him. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. [5] They married in October the following year. Throughout his career, Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts franchise) has portrayed several historical characters to high praise: Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Lile Elbe in The Danish Girl, and James Glaisher in The Aeronauts.This year, he's done it again and worked his magic with a compelling performance as Tom Hayden in The Trial of the Chicago 7. Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when its 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. Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. Happily mingling in this congregation of joy: Onetime gang members (whose lives he had rescued and rearranged); his former students (ditto on the rearranged lives, maybe the same for the rescuing part); film and theatre people; academics and writers; political activists, including comrades from the Sixties and the California State Legislature, both; his family; and lots and lots of friends from many walks. I watched the news footage of Kennedy on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, bleeding to death. [38], Hayden was known widely in California as a staunch endorser of animal rights and was responsible for writing the bill popularly known as the Hayden Act, which improved protection of pets and extended holding periods for pets confined as strays or surrendered to shelters. Mayor Daley audibly shouted a Jewish slur at Ribicoff. During 1999, Hayden made a speech for the Seattle WTO protests. I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Speakers included well-known American radicals such as the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. Eisenhower had warned of its dangerous influence in his farewell presidential address. Pre-order/Pre-save Just Like That now: https://lnk.to/justlikethat_br Stream here: https://lnk.to/somethingsgotaholdofmyheart, Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland, Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitarJames Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion , backing vocal Glenn Patscha: clavinet, piano, electric piano, backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar George Marinelli: electric guitar, backing vocal. During the next week I could barely contain my grief. He was able to whisper to me the day before he died that seeing people willing to die for their beliefs changed him forever. http://img.youtube.com/vi/nVBQqI15nCc/0.jpg, Tom Hayden is a renowned political and social rights activist, a former California state senator, columnist and the author of 20 books. The chant Push that rock is realism for radicals and reformers today. Following Barbaras song, members of theFirst AME Choir Tom Morello, Holly Near, Bonnie Raitt and James McVay and myself joined Barbara on stage for a rendition of Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn me Around, appropriately ending the memorial with everyone on their feet and singing along. One of Bobby Kennedy's qualities, or perhaps it was a quality of the times, was an easy and growing familiarity with the New Left. DeWayne, born in Watts, and Alex who as a child immigrated from El Salvador to escape the bloody civil war that ravaged his mother county. . Then too, the coffins continued to return home in large numbers, carrying the bodies of sons and husbands, fresh-faced children barely out of their teens, if that. Tom had been able to see past their tattoos to who they really wereand made it possible for them to completely turn their lives around. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, authoring the Port Huron Statement and standing trial in the Chicago Seven case. It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar James Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, backing vocal Glenn Patscha:rhodes piano (nord), backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar. This speech was given at the 2003 Bioneers National Conference. Both former gang members who evolved into becoming successful peace activists. And I will.. I know that we all came away with a renewed commitment to making Toms vision of a true Democracy into a reality. Their rhetoric was loudly anti-American and pro-socialist. Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that "Tom Hayden changed America", calling him "father to the largest mass protests in American history", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, "without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society. Soft-spoken and anything but radical, he impressed on us the necessity of cutting long hair and beards and putting on white shirts and ties to go "Clean for Gene" when we knocked on doors to get out the vote. All rights reserved. [29][30], During 1976, Hayden made a primary election challenge to California U.S. I will always consider it an honor to have met him. A group of us from Superior joined another from our twin city of Duluth, Minnesota, for a long bus ride to the conference. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. [21] Six months after the convention, he and seven other protesters including Rennie Davis, There's a feeling of change in the winds that blow. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. [40], Hayden maintained that he remained radical towards the end of his life, commenting, "I'm Jefferson in terms of democracy," he said, "I'm Thoreau in terms of environment, and Crazy Horse in terms of social movements". Haydens critics and there were many were given voice in a couple of video snippets, including one that focused on his three years of community organizing in poor black sections of Newark in the mid-60s. In 2015 Tom wrote: My wife Barbara Williams has added a new meaning to the Albert Camus story of Sisyphus, who was condemned to push the rock back up the hill eternally. A powerful critic of Stalinism in Russia, Sakharov suggested a middle way between Communist dictatorships and capitalist inequality. No other year has left such vivid memories for me, though it may be that this year, 2018, will be even more decisive for the future of America. Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar James Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, backing vocal Glenn Patscha: rhodes piano, hammond B3, backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar. Though he knew presidents and princes, Tom Hayden ultimately was a man of the streets the kind of open streets where American democracy best thrives. Two months later, a gunman killed New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles on the night he won California's Democratic presidential primary. Even Tom Hayden, the SDS radical, was a pallbearer. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. Oct. 24, 2016. Nicholas Lemann, the former Dean of Columbia Journalism School declared that "Tom Hayden changed America". To Helstein's dismay, Alinsky dismissed Hayden's venture into the field as naive and doomed to failure. 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Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. Troy, Barbara and I had the speakers arranged in chronological order so that one could see the entire sweep of Toms life as an organizer/strategist/movement builder/writer/journalist/State Senator. Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. But he'd stuck with Johnson on the war. We celebrated with pitchers of beer and drove back to Superior with headaches the next day, happy to have them. Two of the Chicago 7 defendants,Rennie Davis and John Froines, were at the memorial. Given little chance at first, his popularity was suddenly enhanced by developments across the Pacific. Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee for President, promised a "secret plan" to end the war while condemning antiwar protestors in the name of what he termed "the silent majority." For here we are, an imperious American administration in full tilt, and a Sixties- style movement of popular resistance aborning. The youth-led movement changed the very language of politics and its impact is still being felt today. The omission wasnt an evasion; it was testimony to the man we came to remember and what he was about. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy . 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. Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife Jane Fonda, has died. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. An anti-war Democrat, the cerebral Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy, had challenged President Johnson in the upcoming presidential primary election. [37] In that same year, he helped initiate Progressives for Obama (now called Progressive America Rising), a group of political progressives that provided assistance for Obama in his initial presidential campaign. Hayden and Fonda were a major force in California politics in the 1970s and 80s, and Hayden went on to represent the liberal Westside in the state Assembly and Senate for 18 years. A month later, a year that began with great hope, ended with little. Bonnie Raitt Wins Song of the Year for Just Like That at Grammy Awards. Her name was Luz, which means "light" in Spanish, but her story was decidedly dark. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. She had come to the conference with several other student leaders from the Olympic protest. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. In 1974, he appeared in a brief scene as an ER doctor in the film Death Wish. It was held in a cavernous auditorium with perhaps a thousand people in attendance. I wanted to believe the words of the song were true, but I really didn't feel that way. The most revered of the speakers was a man I'd never heard of until then. Tom knew that the recent release of the Pentagon Papers had changed the national landscape and that it was time to pull back from radical action and take the anti war message right into the heart of middle America.
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