Quakers are known for wanting to give back. [citation needed], In 2016, Hayden ran to be one of California's representatives to the Democratic National Committee. At the end of the month, I was invited to attend an event called the Hemispheric Conference Against the War in Vietnam being held in the Canadian city of Montreal. Might he have a chance? Although The Statement did express regret at the "perversion of the older left by Stalinism," it omitted the LID's standard denunciation of communism. In a lengthy account of the riots, Hayden was unblinking about the inevitable,. [11] SDS community organizers would help draw white neighbourhoods into an "interacial movement of the poor". [29][30], During 1976, Hayden made a primary election challenge to California U.S. His name was Salvador Allende, and he was, at that time, a senator in the Chilean government and the leader of its Socialist Party. Snipers fired randomly into the crowd, killing hundreds of students and bystanders. Peoples Park Protest & Riots, Speeches Tom Hayden, Mario Savio. During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. [29] He also was revealed to have developed a friendship with Sen. Robert Kennedy, and served as one of the pallbearers for Kennedy's casket during Kennedy's funeral. He told the Royce Hall crowd that his father liked Hayden a lot, seeing in him a kindred Irish spirit. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. Hayden died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting that he suffered a stroke in 2015. http://img.youtube.com/vi/Z2Br1RWvYxg/0.jpg, Tom Hayden, a prominent leader of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements died Sunday at the age of 76. I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. Jane is an actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. Women and gays were protesting discrimination. Their hopes were buoyed by the July publication of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov's samizdat, On Progress, Peaceful Co-existence and Intellectual Freedom. I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. Their protest was completely peaceful, but the response of the police and guardsmen sent by the government to control them was not. He died in the bloody military coup that overthrew him on September 11, 1973. Although their casualties in the so-called "Tet Offensive" were enormous, the Vietnamese struck fear into American troops and their supporters back home. Former State Senator and leader of sixties peace, justice and environmental movement. Our message was that Nixon was lying about ending the war. They met you, but with snipers, and left your friends all dead in the street. A group of us from Superior joined another from our twin city of Duluth, Minnesota, for a long bus ride to the conference. Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, was a mixed bag at best, in the thinking of my friends and myself. I Cant Make You Love Me : A 25th Anniversary Oral History, MUSICIANS ON MUSICIANS Bonnie Raitt & Brandi Carlile, Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt Tree-Sit In Protest, Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. 2, the anticipated newJohn Prinetribute record fromOh Boy Records, is out today. 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. http://img.youtube.com/vi/coEzsUJYikM/0.jpg. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, the senators family picked Tom Hayden to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral because the young antiwar activist embodied the great hope that my father had in the future of our country, Robert Kennedy Jr. recalled Sunday night at a memorial for Hayden. So, hope you like it ? He and Fonda later initiated the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), which formed a close alliance with then-Governor Jerry Brown and promoted solar energy, environmental protection and renters' rights policies, as well as candidates for local office throughout California, more than 50 of whom would go on to be elected. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. One former gang member, Alex Sanchez, paid tribute to Hayden for leading him away from a life of crime and violence. 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. Tom Hayden, Contributor. He and Williams adopted a son. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). In this deeply moving, visionary talk, he considers how a grassroots movement might overcome the most powerful empire in world history. So, hope you like it ? Arhoolie Foundation celebrates it's 60th anniversary (1960-2020) with an online broadcast. 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. To Helstein's dismay, Alinsky dismissed Hayden's venture into the field as naive and doomed to failure. (Hayden, teary- eyed, joined a small honor guard watching over RFKs casket at St. Patricks Cathedral, at midnight before the next days funeral. Hayden was in the vanguard of the 1960s counterculture movement, a radical who led civil rights and antiwar protests and later became a prolific author and member of of the California Legislature. Quality journalism. The IPC, operating in Boston, New York, Detroit and Santa Clara, mobilized dissent against the Vietnam War and demanded unconditional amnesty for U.S. draft evaders, among other aims. Tom Hayden once said that whenever it looked like the progressive majority was coming to power in the 1960s, it was interrupted by killings, killings performed by unknown forces. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. While Hubert Humphrey's nomination was a foregone conclusion with Kennedy gone from the race, Eugene McCarthy still had considerable support for a floor fight. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. "The radical inside the system: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76.". He has taught at Evergreen State College and serves on the board of Earth Island Institute. For maybe tomorrow you'll wake up and find, The long years of sorrow were worth all the pain, For all of your struggles have been left behind. Distributed by ADA. Again, dont we need CEDs today-in every state? The most important lesson, she recalled, was to never give up.. Renowned as his Sixties and Seventies exploits were, Tom Hayden was not a man of the past. They're also joined by Amy Allison his daughter, who executive produced the album about selecting an unexpected list of artists to contribute songs to the album. "[28] Nevertheless, his FBI files also showed Hayden held meetings with some people who the New Left opposed, such as Rev. And you started to cry, but now dry out your eyes. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. This is what is needed instead of walls. The American response was to inflict horrible casualties on combatants and non-combatants alike. Does anyone know if he has recently shown any . Stupefying and astounding as it may be, the film ends on a fictionalized note after the Chicago Eight become Chicago Seven after Bobby Seale's trial is severed. ), Bobby Kennedy Jr. shed light on the relationship. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. Napalm, a terrifying jellied gasoline that cooked people alive, was dropped indiscriminately. It was bitterly cold in the snowy streets of Madison that night, but none of us noticed. Among the most important progressive political figures of our era, he co-authored the historic SDS-founding Port Huron Statements in the early 1960s, was a defendant in the trial of the legendary Chicago Seven, and went on to serve as a California State Senator. It was part memorial, part movement rally, part testimonial, part reunion. 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. [14], Hayden committed himself to the effort. And it was forever. He never stopped trying to make Democracy a reality. "[20], In 1968, Hayden joined the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe"), and played a major role in the protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Section 76060.5 allows the establishment of "student representation fees" at colleges in the California Community Colleges System. Shocking photographs surfaced, of young girls running naked from a wall of flames, of suspected traitors being summarily assassinated without investigation of their supposed disloyalty; in one case, in lurid, living color, crimson gushed like a fountain from the head of a man shot at point-blank range. No more would the anti-war protestors be chanting "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" President Nixons Justice Department prosecuted Hayden in the raucous Chicago 7 trial after violent clashes between police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. [23] The next year he married Fonda and they had one child, Troy Garity, born on July 7, 1973. https://www.bonnieraitt.eu/wp-content/plugins/bookshelf-slider/, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/c91FbvW2hCo/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/5zwGe0O_MHU/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/0b0BkFj8jW8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/PnnBk4HzJzQ/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/8qTQjuUfLu0/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/Z71L4JdrVBY/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/hCJa0505jZk/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/jXG6ULcK-qs/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/yHeBLEo4TOM/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/BQqk001wvy8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/kucKKw9C8DA/hqdefault.jpg. Most of the thousand or so gathered this past Sunday afternoon at UCLAs Royce Hall were grey( not greying) boomers, though a younger cohort also showed. 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. For years Tom worked tirelessly to stop the gang wars, helping support Homies Unidos and other efforts which allowed young men and women to leave the gang life and become community leaders. "[3], Hayden grew up attending a church led by Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest noted for his anti-Semitic teachings, and who was also known nationally during the time of The Great Depression as the "radio priest". But there were many others who still believed in the system and had worked hard for McCarthy or Kennedy. 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. "Mr Hayden," judge Hoffman tells him. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center. 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. He was there to witness the 1967 Newark Riots which, in Rebellion in Newark (1967), he tried to place in a larger social and economic context. [22], Hayden made several subsequent well-publicized visits to North Vietnam as well as Cambodia during America's involvement in the Vietnam War, which had expanded under President Richard M. Nixon to include the adjoining nations of Laos and Cambodia, although he did not accompany his future wife, actress Jane Fonda, on her especially controversial trip to Hanoi in the spring of 1972. He believed in change. Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. During 1999, Hayden made a speech for the Seattle WTO protests. He was 76. 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. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. His new initiative is the Make America Beautiful Again campaign. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. Mayor Daley audibly shouted a Jewish slur at Ribicoff. The ones who are born then will sing in the rain. 1443, 35 L.Ed.2d 706 (1973). He didnt see my tattoos. [18][19] Staughton Lynd later wrote that the New Left disavowed "the Anti-Communism of the previous generation", and that Lynd and Hayden had written, in Studies on the Left: "We refuse to be anti-Communist. My 22 yr old son Cameron gave his whole. You watched them in the sky. 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. From a working class family in Royal Oak, Michigan, a student and alter boy in the arch conservative Father Coughlins 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 60s, 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. [1] Hayden's dismay with Coughlin caused him to break with the Catholic Church as a teenager. In the Three Cultures Plaza you gathered to meet. 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With Johnson still on the ballot, McCarthy won an overwhelming victory in the Wisconsin primary. I made up my mind to vote for a third-party candidate, the comedian Dick Gregory. "They killed Kennedy," he said. I wanted to believe the words of the song were true, but I really didn't feel that way. I never saw Luz again after that night. Refined and adopted at the first Students for Democratic Society (SDS) convention in June 1962, the Port Huron Statement called for a "new left" committed, in the spirit of participatory democracy, to "deliberativeness, honesty [and] reflection. But Humphrey and his chosen running mate, Ed Muskie, were anointed as the nominees by the Party's conservative establishment, who controlled most of the delegates. Eric Clapton, one of the worlds pre-eminent blues/rock guitarists, once again summoned an all-star team of six-string heroes for his fifth Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2019. 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Tom Hayden died from complications related to a . Tom Hayden discussed his book "Reunion" during an interview at his Santa Monica, Calif., office in 1988. 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 County, Virginia. It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. She stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. He . A beautifully emotional Alfre Woodard read from Tom's memoir, Ed Begley spoke about Tom's commitment to the environment and how it changed his life, ending by saying that he named his daughter Hayden in Tom's honor. These images, and the Tet Offensive, shocked many otherwise placid Americans and led to a shift in public opinion. . Hayden, who died in October at the age of 76, had been one of the first white students from northern states to join blacks in Freedom Ride protests against segregation in the South. Hayden was the lead author of the Port Huron Statement, a 1962 student manifesto that served as a foundation for protests against the Vietnam War. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. We need to withdraw our stamp of approval and our tax dollars from supporting the occupation. 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." Tom Hayden with his then-wife, Jane Fonda, and their son, Troy, Santa Monica, California. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. [44][45] He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica,[46] where he was the first interment in "Eternal Meadow," an eco-friendly section. Tears flowing. In discussing the legacy of JFK on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, Tom Hayden warmly remembered meeting JFK as a student leader of the anti-war and civil rights movements. [5] They married in October the following year. Along with her son with Tom, Liam Hayden,Barbara ended the program by performing her song, Push That Rock. I found it hard to concentrate on schoolwork the rest of that semester. Yes, I can do more! Kennedy's brother Edward eulogized him simply as a man who "saw wrong and tried to right it, saw pain and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Hayden died in Santa Monica, California on October 23, 2016, aged 76, following a lengthy illness including a stroke. Feldmans path to observance took many twists and turns. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Much as Tom Hayden would thrill to the voices of protest today, I suspect hed counsel a degree of caution that the moment might last and democracy endure. That fall, my friends and I continued to organize vigils and protests. That year, with other SNCC women, Casey Hayden coauthored "Sex and Caste"[9] since regarded as a founding document of second-wave feminism. A "military-industrial complex" of interlocking boards of directors containing the same elite players, dominated our politics as a "ruling class." When it was over, I felt a slow realization that the times we thought were changing would change glacially if at all. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. He was a member of First, Johnson declared a moratorium on bombing attacks on North Vietnam; the anti-war pressure was getting to him. As I said in my speech, letsthink about that strategy for today. It was calledthe Indochina Peace Campaign, IPC. Does an Israel/Palestine Joke in Succession Trailer Tell Us Anything About Season 4? Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. 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). But by that time, my allegiance had shifted to Bobby. She later recalled that in contrast to the interminable debates she had witnessed in Ann Arbor, in SNCC discussions the focus was on action and women had a voice. But despite the King tragedy, my overall mood remained hopeful. 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, Abalone Alliance Rally - San Luis Obispo, CA, Tom Hayden Democracy Against Empire | Bioneers, http://img.youtube.com/vi/6_Qu9hzk0ME/0.jpg. He was married to Jane Fonda for 17 years, and is the father of actor Troy Garity. 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. [15] His profile in Newark attracted the attention of the FBI. But the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be the headlights of an onrushing train. His speech was strongly-worded, but thoughtful and not merely rhetorical. bobby kennedy pallbearers tom hayden american airlines core competencies June 21, 2022. the most poisonous snake in the world I watched the news footage of Kennedy on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, bleeding to death. The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources. Both spoke of how Tom had believed in them despite their troubled pasts. God, I remember waterbeds, she said. The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. The government did not re-try the case, and thereafter elected to dismiss the substantive charges. He served as the editor for the school newspaper, and in his farewell column in the newspaper, he used the first letter of successive paragraphs to spell "Go to hell".