I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. In 1974, he appeared in a brief scene as an ER doctor in the film Death Wish. He was 76. . The Watergate scandal and the unraveling of the presidency gave decisive new leverage to Toms Congressional strategy and in the fall of 73 the IPC tour went out again with the same team plus 3-month-old Troy who slept in dresser drawers along the way. 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. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Several of the black students were fighting back tears; knowing the anger they must be feeling. 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. All rights reserved. Perhaps most importantthis is 1967-68, remember, when the US was waging war in Vietnam while cracking down on dissent at homeKennedy Jr. noted that Hayden sought to persuade those who would listen that a nation behaving like an imperial power abroad, would not have true democracy at home. The results would likely have been the same. 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. I know that we all came away with a renewed commitment to making Toms vision of a true Democracy into a reality. Stream/purchaseHERE. [14], Hayden committed himself to the effort. Tom Hayden died from complications related to a . 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. Does an Israel/Palestine Joke in Succession Trailer Tell Us Anything About Season 4? Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. In May, McCarthy soundly defeated Kennedy in the Oregon primary. I was able to shake his hand later and tell him I appreciated it. But there were many others who still believed in the system and had worked hard for McCarthy or Kennedy. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. [35] Hayden served as a member of the advisory board for the Progressive Democrats of America, an organization created to increase progressive political cooperation and influence within the Democratic Party. 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. John Moscowitz is rabbi emeritus, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto. In Indianapolis, Bobby Kennedy braved an angry crowd to urge the non-violence that King had espoused. Although The Statement did express regret at the "perversion of the older left by Stalinism," it omitted the LID's standard denunciation of communism. "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.). Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. 2015 Birthday Cake Media A (SOCAN) administered by Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd., Super Big Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC, Jett Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC. [citation needed]. Their hopes were buoyed by the July publication of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov's samizdat, On Progress, Peaceful Co-existence and Intellectual Freedom. Bobby Kennedy Jr spoke about Toms Irishness and why the Kennedy family asked Tom to be one of the pall bearers at Robert Kennedys funeral. 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. When Trump began to rise in 2015, Hayden, always geared up, fearing the worse, geared up higher. 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. Reporters covering the convention were roughed up by Daley's police. 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. 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. No more would the anti-war protestors be chanting "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" 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. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. To a standing ovation she turned back a motion denying support for sit-ins in the struggle against racial segregation: I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, Wait, And having decided that I cannot urge caution, I must stand with him. Alan Haber of the fledgling Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) recruited her on the spot. The comment form collects your name, email and content to allow us keep track of the comments placed on the website. Hayden, she said, had been her teacher for 26 years. 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. Los Angeles, Downtown L.A stabbing sends six to hospital; 1 arrested, San Diego Roman Catholic diocese facing yet another lawsuit from its insurance company, K-Pop isnt the only hot ticket in Koreatown how trot is captivating immigrants, Los Angeles is suddenly awash in waterfalls, Officials unprepared for epic mountain blizzard, leaving many trapped and desperate. These images, and the Tet Offensive, shocked many otherwise placid Americans and led to a shift in public opinion. [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. He was an urgent, though gentle, warrior for his causes, some ongoing, others to emergeeither way, Hayden, eyes ahead, was usually ahead of the crowd, which would eventually catch on. They shouted their opposition to the undemocratic nature of the convention. He had come to trust Bobby, despite the latter's wealth and establishment connections. 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. A few days later, the Democratic Convention began in Chicago. The American response was to inflict horrible casualties on combatants and non-combatants alike. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal . JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. He literally spent himself for the cause, as he tended to do. Pallbearers will be the employees of Smith Lumber Company: Murray Abendroth, Chris Stark, Carol Kennedy, Daniel Jarrett, Jason Tatum, Josh Hofstetter, Kevin Stegall, Kenneth Blevins, Jimmy Boyd and Jarren Robertson. Along with her son with Tom, Liam Hayden,Barbara ended the program by performing her song, Push That Rock. It was a roller coaster year of emotional highs and lows, when unlikely dreams suddenly seemed possible, only to be dashed time and again. 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The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. Richard Fernandez, Judith Lerner, David McReynolds, Gerald Horne, Marcus Raskin, Rev. In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- 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,. Both spoke of how Tom had believed in them despite their troubled pasts. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Some of her friends were killed; she watched their blood darken the stones in the plaza before finally escaping the violence. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". He was a member of [3] As a result, when he graduated in 1956,[4][1] he was banned from attending his graduation ceremony and only received a diploma.[3]. With the Wisconsin primary scheduled for early April, I traveled to Madison in late March to meet with other McCarthy organizers. Johnson had surrendered; the war would end. "[28] Nevertheless, his FBI files also showed Hayden held meetings with some people who the New Left opposed, such as Rev. 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. 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. 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. 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. [10], Convinced, in the words of the Statement, that students must "look outwards to the less exotic but more lasting struggles for justice," and with $5000 from United Automobile Workers, Hayden's first SDS initiative was the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP). . (10/24/16), http://img.youtube.com/vi/qwpvHAn__bM/0.jpg. 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. Bonnie Raitt, a longtime friend and supporter of Toms, sangChange is Gonna Come.. "[7] The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. [8], Tom Hayden was elected SDS president for the 19621963 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. Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who . 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. American social and political activist, author, and politician (19392016), For other people named Thomas Hayden, see. 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. 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. 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. In this deeply moving, visionary talk, he considers how a grassroots movement might overcome the most powerful empire in world history. 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. It struck me as a putdown of the poor, and racist as well. 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It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. While things were looking up, we had no idea of what to expect on the evening of March 31, when we gathered in the student union at the University of Wisconsin to watch a "special announcement" from the president. Just be a bit more patient and we'd all see it. 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. And I will.. I got pregnant during the tour in a motor home en route to Buffalo, NY. . 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. But he'd stuck with Johnson on the war. Now is Tom Haydens momentand it always was. Direct to your inbox. CMT Crossroads Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett The Factory Franklin TN, Chris Stapleton, Bonnie Raitt Helm B.B. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator. [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]. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. I wrote it down as soon as I got back home, and later sang it for my friends in the little coffeehouse on campus. Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Somethings Got a Hold of My Heart (Official Lyric Video.) While at home for a month, I read constantly--the literature of the New Left. Hayden taught a class in political science at the University of Southern California during the 197778 school year. President Johnson had claimed we were winning the war and our enemies would soon be on their knees. The sense of satisfaction in recalling a life of consequence, together with others whod been there, was palpable. 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. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. 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. He . "The radical inside the system: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76.". Section 76060.5 allows the establishment of "student representation fees" at colleges in the California Community Colleges System. 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. Feared they might hold all whites responsible for the slaying. Hayden died just over two weeks before Donald Trump was elected president. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. The conference was followed by a commemoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. 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.". 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. 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. A "military-industrial complex" of interlocking boards of directors containing the same elite players, dominated our politics as a "ruling class." Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. [34] Student representation fees are used to support the operation of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. 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. During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. Feldmans path to observance took many twists and turns. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. 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. Hayden was a teaching assistant at the University of Michigan Journalism Department in the early 1960s. whose plane had been shot down. [1] When Hayden was 10, his parents divorced, and his mother raised him. Hayden lived in Los Angeles beginning in 1971[42] and was married to his third wife, Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. Used by permission. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. There was just cool and uncool. He has taught at Evergreen State College and serves on the board of Earth Island Institute. It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. [5] The Haydens divorced in 1965. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. 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. The most important lesson, she recalled, was to never give up.. He didn't; in November, Hubert Humphrey lost by a whisker to Nixon. The Nation magazine named him one of the 50 "greatest progressives of the 20th century". With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. With twenty-five years experience in Chicago and across the country, Alinsky was considered the father of community organizing. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. Save my name, email, and website in this browser cookies for the next time I comment. [23] The next year he married Fonda and they had one child, Troy Garity, born on July 7, 1973. Kristy Edmunds, Director of UCLAs Royce Hall, wrote this to me after the memorial. (Photo: Screenshot). [40] He also claimed that he never endorsed Sanders and only supported his campaign with the hope that it would push Clinton's policies leftward. 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. Polls began showing that a majority of voters opposed the war, and the victory of either McCarthy or Kennedy seemed almost inevitable. [12] By the end of 1964 ERAP had ten inner-city projects engaging 125 student volunteers. "[27] Staughton Lynd, though, was critical of the Port Huron and New Left concept of "participatory democracy", stating: "We must recognize that when an organization grows to a certain size, consensus decision-making is no longer possible, and some form of representative government becomes necessary. 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 Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. [1] Hayden attended a Catholic elementary school, where he read out loud to nuns and "learned to fear hell. He understood that progressives had to be prepared to take power and learn to govern, not just protestsomething else we would do well to think about for today. A month later, a year that began with great hope, ended with little. 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 didnt 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 its congressional focus. On the convention floor, Peterson and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff rose to report that the police were beating people up outside. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Bonnie Raitt about her friendship with the Mose Allison. 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. That doesn't mean that there can't be some attempts at remedies, but these should never be used as an excuse to stay."[43]. 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. by Bonnie Raitt from her new album, Just Like That Street date 4/22/22 with global release in all formats! Jane is an actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. Jackie Ward reports. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. Two years later, he would be elected president of Chile, thus setting off a three-year American effort to destabilize his government. Suddenly it was possible to believe again, but the forces of hate and greed did not go quietly into that magic night. Williams told The New York Times that Hayden had a history of heart problems and his health had declined in the preceding months.
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