Hayden is the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California and is an outspoken critic of continuing global conflicts. We insist the term has lost all the specific content it once had. Kristy Edmunds, Director of UCLAs Royce Hall, wrote this to me after the memorial. But your dove couldn't sing. We distributed over a million pieces of educational literature. Hayden died just over two weeks before Donald Trump was elected president. During January 2008, Hayden wrote an opinion essay for The Huffington Post's website endorsing Barack Obama's presidential bid in the Democratic primaries. by Bonnie Raitt from her new album, Just Like That Street date 4/22/22 with global release in all formats! 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 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. Hayden died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2016, aged 76. It was from a prison cell in Albany, Georgia, where their ride was to land him, that Hayden began writing the SDS manifesto. Distributed by ADA. sister forever house address; bobby kennedy pallbearers tom haydenhow to make chalk with crayons I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center. The fee has been established at several dozen colleges, and it may be used "to provide support for governmental affairs representatives of local or statewide student body organizations who may be stating their positions and viewpoints before city, county, and district governments, and before offices and agencies of state government". Former State Senator and leader of sixties peace, justice and environmental movement. But what I remember most from the conference was the small, sad-eyed young woman from Mexico that I also met there. [citation needed], In 2016, Hayden ran to be one of California's representatives to the Democratic National Committee. And I will.. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. Tom was our friend, and boy, could we use his voice right now, said Father Greg Boyle, the Homeboy Industries founder who worked with Hayden on efforts to rehabilitate gang members. Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 8 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda, has died. 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. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Hayden, and Bobby Seale. It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Now, the leading living scion of one of America's most beloved political families was also hammering Johnson from the campaign trail. SDS Founder, Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street, http://img.youtube.com/vi/AJeAF3E2yl0/0.jpg, DemocracyNow.org We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). When Trump began to rise in 2015, Hayden, always geared up, fearing the worse, geared up higher. Progressive values. 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. [36] He served on the advisory board of the Levantine Cultural Center, a nonprofit organization founded in Los Angeles in 2001 that champions cultural literacy about the Middle East and North Africa. Does anyone know if he has recently shown any . He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. On the long bus trip back to Wisconsin, I couldn't get her out of my mind and a song came to me. Two months earlier, on the night of October 2, she and other Mexican university students had gathered in a great open space called the Plaza of the Three Cultures near the center of Mexico City. Some inner cities exploded in anger. The American response was to inflict horrible casualties on combatants and non-combatants alike. 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]. "Anybody who protests will receive still more of the same, We'll stop your life's flicker and we'll even erase your name. Together with singer Holly Near, POWsBob Chenowith and George Smith and others, the IPC tour began at the Ohio State Fair and traveled to100 cities in 3 months during the fall of 1972. His book Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement, completed in the months before his death in October 2016, was published on January 31, 2017, by Yale University Press. An elderly and elegant gentleman wearing a fine wool sweater and dark-rimmed glasses, he spoke in Spanish, with translation. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. Feared they might hold all whites responsible for the slaying. 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 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. As the two-hour 10-minute movie comes to a close, the judge allows one defendant to speak on the behalf of the seven-man group Tom Hayden. I, for one, have long been intrigued by Tom Hayden's friendship with the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, towards the end of Bobby's life. Even Tom Hayden, the SDS radical, was a pallbearer. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Mostly, we felt fortunate for having known him. I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Please give it a try and become a member or subscribe to the newsletter of Bonnies Pride and Joy! Senator John V. Tunney. Along with her son with Tom, Liam Hayden,Barbara ended the program by performing her song, Push That Rock. I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who . Like Bull Connor in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, Daley sent his police to gas and club them--an investigative committee later called the action "a police riot.". As I said in my speech, letsthink about that strategy for today. It was calledthe Indochina Peace Campaign, IPC. Both former gang members who evolved into becoming successful peace activists. Two years later, he would be elected president of Chile, thus setting off a three-year American effort to destabilize his government. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. 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. There were people who were part of creating the seminal Port Huron Statement on which Tom was the lead writer and editor the document that laid out in beautiful, even soulful, language an entirely new vision of what a Democratic society would look like. There's a feeling of change in the winds that blow. 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. Their hopes were buoyed by the July publication of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov's samizdat, On Progress, Peaceful Co-existence and Intellectual Freedom. Distributed by ADA. 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. I never saw Luz again after that night. Given little chance at first, his popularity was suddenly enhanced by developments across the Pacific. One former gang member, Alex Sanchez, paid tribute to Hayden for leading him away from a life of crime and violence. (Hayden, teary- eyed, joined a small honor guard . I always wanted to explore the Holocaust on a deeper level. Tom Hayden, in full Thomas Emmet Hayden, (born December 11, 1939, Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.died October 23, 2016, Santa Monica, California), American activist and author. Hed gotten beat up by police in Mississippi and gone to jail for his beliefs in Georgia, Kennedy told the audience at UCLAs Royce Hall. Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Just be a bit more patient and we'd all see it. He also taught at Occidental College and at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Friends Dan Martin, right, and Michael Deiden embrace before a memorial service for activist and politician Tom Hayden at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them. It was her only positive memory of the games. He believed in me, Sanchez told the audience as tears rolled down his cheeks. Recorded on tour June 3, 2017 - Centennial Hall, London - Ontario Canada, Activist & Politician Tom Hayden 1939-2016 Memorial Video, http://img.youtube.com/vi/Mxz2QBsslrE/0.jpg. Billy Graham. Even Tom Hayden, the SDS radical, was a pallbearer. Fifty years have passed since the one that changed everything for my generation, the crucial turning point when the promise of the 1960s turned to a defeat and despair that still weighs on our thoughts of what might have been. This is so much what Hayden was about, especially in his last years. [1] Hayden attended a Catholic elementary school, where he read out loud to nuns and "learned to fear hell. 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. Hes there with my father, and with Martin Luther King, and they are right now exhorting that when we leave this hall, we go out into the streets, and onto the barricades, and we fight to reclaim our country from these very, very bad people, Kennedy said to a round of applause. [1], Hayden attended Dondero High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. For here we are, an imperious American administration in full tilt, and a Sixties- style movement of popular resistance aborning. During 2007, Akashic Books released Hayden's Ending the War in Iraq. He had a non-rhetorical way of putting big new ideas together so that people saw, I was with Tom when he visited Cesar Chavez to ask whether he should run for the U.S. Senate. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. I wanted to believe the words of the song were true, but I really didn't feel that way. Although The Statement did express regret at the "perversion of the older left by Stalinism," it omitted the LID's standard denunciation of communism. [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". [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. Tom Hayden talks about creating social change as it happened in the 1960s and how it can happen today. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. [2] His father was a former Marine who worked for Chrysler as an accountant and was also a violent alcoholic. 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.". 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. 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. "I shall not seek, nor will I accept my party's nomination for President of the United States," he said, looking haggard and defeated. Johnson had surrendered; the war would end. Proceeds from the album will benefit twelve different non-profit organizations, one selected by each of the featured artists. Oct. 24, 2016. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. 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. [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. 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. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. Those who spoke, led by his wife, Barbara Williams, covered the waterfront of a remarkable life: Tom Haydens achievements as a radical American reformer (in the words of his friend, Steve Wasserman); his contrarian nature, seen early on from Detroit and Ann Arbor days; his relentlessness and prescience, from his work in Georgia to Newark, Chicago to California; overall, his giftedness and singular voice all evoked with admiration and affection. The care received by Robert F. Kennedy after he was shot in the head 50 years ago this month was the best possible at the time, and his injuries were so severe that he'd still have a low chance of survival today, researchers say. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Raitt contributed to a new album, If You're Going To The City: A Tribute To Mose Allison, which celebrates the late singer and pianist, who famously blended the rough-edged blues of the Mississippi Delta with the 1950s jazz of New York City. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. When Robert Kennedy died, Tom Hayden, a romantic radical, and Mayor Richard Daley, a city machine boss, wept. Now, he said, Hayden had joined those in heaven who spent their lifetime fighting for justice, fighting for the poor.. John Moscowitz is rabbi emeritus, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto. Renowned as his Sixties and Seventies exploits were, Tom Hayden was not a man of the past. Fonda recalled meeting Hayden at one of her slide presentations against the Vietnam War. . He was a member of. With Johnson still on the ballot, McCarthy won an overwhelming victory in the Wisconsin primary. Those who claim to care about marginalized voices have nothing to say about those who have no voice at all. 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. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. [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. Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, was a mixed bag at best, in the thinking of my friends and myself. The results would likely have been the same. He had changed the lives of most present such was the power and personality of Tom Hayden. On December 10, 1961, the Haydens participated in one of the many freedom rides taking place in response to the 1960 Boynton v. Virginia decision. The Nation magazine named him one of the 50 "greatest progressives of the 20th century". 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. [11] SDS community organizers would help draw white neighbourhoods into an "interacial movement of the poor". Yes, our ground troops were coming home but the air war was beingescalated unbeknownst to most Americans and, in the south, our allies were imprisoning, torturing and corruptingVietnamese civilians in our name. I will always consider it an honor to have met him. Obituary. Dave Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot as part of the "Chicago Eight", a.k.a. In Indianapolis, Bobby Kennedy braved an angry crowd to urge the non-violence that King had espoused. 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. His speech was strongly-worded, but thoughtful and not merely rhetorical. ), Bobby Kennedy Jr. shed light on the relationship. Bonnies Pride and Joy is offering all Bonnie Raitt fans a place where you can meet each other to exchange photos, videos, read news and talk about her music and life. But for his hubris in persisting to escalate the Vietnam War, Johnson might have entered the history books as one of America's greatest presidents, carried there by his commitment to civil rights and the elimination of poverty. Since it was often impossible to know which Vietnamese were loyal to us and which were not, it was deemed necessary to kill everyone who might be suspect, destroying whole villages to "save" them. . Kennedy's funeral seemed surreal. It was a roller coaster year of emotional highs and lows, when unlikely dreams suddenly seemed possible, only to be dashed time and again. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images). It marked the end of my political innocence, born in the magic of John Kennedy's Camelot. It struck me as a putdown of the poor, and racist as well. In 1974, he appeared in a brief scene as an ER doctor in the film Death Wish. Held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, the two-day concert event raised funds for the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, the chemical dependency treatment and education facility that Clapton founded in 1998. The ones who are born then will sing in the rain. Congress to Cut Aid to Thieu. [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. Hayden also founded the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), which operated from 1972 to 1975. The service opened with one civil rights march song, Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, and closed with another, Aint Nobody Going to Turn Me Around. Joining a four-person choir in the final number were singers Bonnie Raitt, Holly Near and Barbara Williams, Haydens wife, along with the couples son, Liam Hayden, and Haydens ex-wife, Jane Fonda. He mounted a bid in the Democratic primary for California Governor during 1994 on the theme of campaign finance reform and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1997, losing to incumbent Republican Richard Riordan. (1972), Introduction to the Enemy (1974), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980) and On Golden Pond (1981). Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. 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. His new initiative is the Make America Beautiful Again campaign. The last person who gave me a ride told me Kennedy was leading in the exit polls and dropped me off at a campsite near Donner Lake, barely over the border from Nevada. In France, the students were joining factory workers in a general strike, and in Communist Czechoslovakia, they were deeply engaged in a reform process called "Prague Spring," which promised "Socialism with a human face." When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. I was impressed by Kennedy's compassion for the poverty-stricken miners of Appalachia, the Hispanic farm workers of California and their charismatic leader, Cesar Chavez, inner-city African-Americans and the hidden poor on Indian reservations. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. 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. Michael Finnegan is a Los Angeles Times reporter covering federal courts and law enforcement. She recalled traveling to college campuses around the country with Hayden in the early 1970s in their campaign to end the war and the homes of activists who let them spend the night. But by that time, my allegiance had shifted to Bobby.