[39] Though he originally leaned towards Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary, Hayden later announced he would support Hillary Clinton and cast his vote for her when the primary reached California. "Shot him in LA last night just as he was about to claim victory.". And I was able to see with even more clarity than when he and I were together what an extraordinary life of dedication he lived and what a lasting impact he had on countless lives. Direct to your inbox. During 1999, Hayden made a speech for the Seattle WTO protests. I watched with pride as Don Peterson, a Wisconsin businessman I'd worked with on the McCarthy campaign, nominated the brilliant African-American leader Julian Bond as a Vice Presidential candidate. 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. Thank you. And all across my country from Boston to Berkeley. 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.. 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. Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. First, Johnson declared a moratorium on bombing attacks on North Vietnam; the anti-war pressure was getting to him. For here we are, an imperious American administration in full tilt, and a Sixties- style movement of popular resistance aborning. He believed in me, Sanchez told the audience as tears rolled down his cheeks. Given little chance at first, his popularity was suddenly enhanced by developments across the Pacific. "Anybody who protests will receive still more of the same, We'll stop your life's flicker and we'll even erase your name. No more would the anti-war protestors be chanting "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" . Those who claim to care about marginalized voices have nothing to say about those who have no voice at all. This is so much what Hayden was about, especially in his last years. But he'd stuck with Johnson on the war. Please read and accept our website Terms and Privacy Policy to post a comment. With the war over, Tom could see that the Watergate scandal had created cracks in the walls of the establishment and that now was the time for progressives to squeeze through those cracks and run for office. 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. I found her inexpressibly lovely and wanted only to tell her things would be all right. 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. A few days later, the Democratic Convention began in Chicago. The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. Distributed by ADA. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, the senator's family picked Tom Hayden to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral because the young antiwar activist embodied "the great hope. The strategy worked. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. 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. 1443, 35 L.Ed.2d 706 (1973). 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. "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.). Used by permission. These images, and the Tet Offensive, shocked many otherwise placid Americans and led to a shift in public opinion. His new initiative is the Make America Beautiful Again campaign. A popular movement that succumbs to hate will soon enough see its promise in pieces and its time gone. Mostly, we felt fortunate for having known him. 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. 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. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda,. [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. She had blood on her broken wing. Hayden is the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California and is an outspoken critic of continuing global conflicts. We celebrated with pitchers of beer and drove back to Superior with headaches the next day, happy to have them. 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. [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. They shouted their opposition to the undemocratic nature of the convention. In May, McCarthy soundly defeated Kennedy in the Oregon primary. "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. 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. [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. 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 agitated and organized, even during the Obama presidency, for a coalition of the many and the diverse for a sharing of the promise of America. 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." 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. Kennedy's funeral seemed surreal. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal . There's a generation looking for a new beginning, And our sparkling eyes and songs prophesize, Are adding our bodies to the protest line. 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. The demonstrations were broken up by what the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence later described as a police riot. We distributed over a million pieces of educational literature. CMT Crossroads Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett The Factory Franklin TN, Chris Stapleton, Bonnie Raitt Helm B.B. denied, 410 U.S. 970, 93 S.Ct. He served 18 years in the California legislature and has written 175 articles of legislation covering domestic violence, gang violence, student fee hikes and the protection of endangered species. It was her only positive memory of the games. Two of the Chicago 7 defendants,Rennie Davis and John Froines, were at the memorial. !, The Three Hebrew Words that Make All the Difference., From West Hollywood to Yeshiva University: A Sephardic Jews Journey in the World of the Holocaust, This Poem Counts as Rabbinic School A poem for Parsha Tetzaveh, Young Actress Juju Brener on Her Hocus Pocus 2 Role, Behind the Scenes of Jeopardy! with Mayim Bialik, Israels Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll Goes to Hollywood, From Comedy Festival to Shootings on Pico. Tom Hayden Dies at 76 | Anti-War Activist Remembered, http://img.youtube.com/vi/_qXP9q1OmcM/0.jpg. She was fighting hard to hold back tears as she told me her horrifying tale. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. I will summarize some of what I said at the memorial because I think it speaks to what needs to happen today in this country: I spoke of my 17 years with Tom which began in 1972 when the peace movement was flagging after years of repression and sectarian divisiveness. But despite the King tragedy, my overall mood remained hopeful. We delivered our message demand that Congress cut aid toour puppet regime in Saigonin union halls, churches, editorial boards, oncampuses,to crowds of sometimes 10,000 people. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music. The most revered of the speakers was a man I'd never heard of until then. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Their rhetoric was loudly anti-American and pro-socialist. When it was over, I felt a slow realization that the times we thought were changing would change glacially if at all. [citation needed]. Two of the most moving speeches were made by Alex Sanchez and DeWayne Holmes. She had short dark hair and big eyes that seemed to be searching for something far away. Feel free to republish and share widely. argued that our democracy was largely an illusion. He believed in change. 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. 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 enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. "Now don't disturb the Olympics," the imperial orders came. 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. When Trump began to rise in 2015, Hayden, always geared up, fearing the worse, geared up higher. The conference was followed by a commemoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. 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. 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 Jackie Ward reports. [5] They married in October the following year. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in Los . 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. 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. Michael Finnegan is a Los Angeles Times reporter covering federal courts and law enforcement. Hayden lived in Los Angeles beginning in 1971[42] and was married to his third wife, Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. Quakers are known for wanting to give back. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. He died Sunday after a long illness, his wife said. 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. The sense of satisfaction in recalling a life of consequence, together with others whod been there, was palpable. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". We held the memorial at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday February 19. In the same year, while the Vietnam War was still ongoing, the documentary film Introduction to the Enemy, a collaboration by Fonda, Hayden, Haskell Wexler and others, was released. Obituary. Jane Fonda, a supporter of the IPC, later turned this moniker into a name for her film production firm, IPC Films, which produced in whole or in part, movies and documentaries such as F.T.A. 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.". During the next week I could barely contain my grief. The next day, he showed her his own slide show, which focused on Vietnamese history. 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). Tom Hayden was one of the most important radicals of the 1960s, who as a college student at the University of Michigan helped found Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the seminal leftist student activist group. The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. On the convention floor, Peterson and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff rose to report that the police were beating people up outside. Political icon Tom Hayden delivers a rousing call to action based on a profound historical overview of the arc of justice and social movements. 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. 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. Which is why, while we were gathered to memorialize him and his time is now gone, this was and is Tom Haydens moment. There was a "light at the end of the tunnel," he said. 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. With twenty-five years experience in Chicago and across the country, Alinsky was considered the father of community organizing. 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. 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. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Kristy Edmunds, Director of UCLAs Royce Hall, wrote this to me after the memorial. [1] Hayden's dismay with Coughlin caused him to break with the Catholic Church as a teenager. [5] The Haydens divorced in 1965. 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. Mayor Daley audibly shouted a Jewish slur at Ribicoff. 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. Hayden died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2016, aged 76. 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. We insist the term has lost all the specific content it once had. 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. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. [32], Hayden later served in the California State Assembly (19821992) and the State Senate (19922000). [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. 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. He was a member of. Used by permission. 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. In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. 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