It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Proceeds from the album will benefit twelve different non-profit organizations, one selected by each of the featured artists. (Hayden, teary- eyed, joined a small honor guard watching over RFKs casket at St. Patricks Cathedral, at midnight before the next days funeral. 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. 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. The Year That Changed Everything: A Personal Memory of 1968 I was able to shake his hand later and tell him I appreciated it. 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. [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. 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. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. Some of her friends were killed; she watched their blood darken the stones in the plaza before finally escaping the violence. John Moscowitz is rabbi emeritus, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto. He didn't; in November, Hubert Humphrey lost by a whisker to Nixon. 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." Stream/purchaseHERE. There was a "light at the end of the tunnel," he said. And you started to cry, but now dry out your eyes. His name was Salvador Allende, and he was, at that time, a senator in the Chilean government and the leader of its Socialist Party. 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. Eisenhower had warned of its dangerous influence in his farewell presidential address. Im whats known as a Cantorial Songleader. 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. 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. The most important lesson, she recalled, was to never give up.. Undeterred at having been beaten senseless by a white mob in McComb, Mississippi, while covering the Freedom Rides for the National Student News,[6] Hayden himself became a Freedom Rider. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. (Two of his codefendants, Rennie Davis and John Froines, attended the service.). Tom Hayden Dies at 76 | Anti-War Activist Remembered, http://img.youtube.com/vi/_qXP9q1OmcM/0.jpg. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. ", They released the doves to fly. Bobby Kennedy was listening (and so too was Martin Luther King Jr.). Hayden died just over two weeks before Donald Trump was elected president. Speakers included well-known American radicals such as the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. 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 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. 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. [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 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. President Johnson had claimed we were winning the war and our enemies would soon be on their knees. Subscribe to our Newsletter!function(m,a,i,l,s,t,e,r){m[s]=m[s]||(function(){t=a.createElement(i);r=a.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];t.async=1;t.src=l;r.parentNode.insertBefore(t,r);return !0}())}(window,document,'script','https://www.bonnieraitt.eu/wp-content/plugins/mailster/assets/js/button.min.js','MailsterSubscribe'); I would like to welcome all Bonnie Raitt fans to this fansite about her. 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. 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. Several of the black students were fighting back tears; knowing the anger they must be feeling. 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. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Political icon Tom Hayden delivers a rousing call to action based on a profound historical overview of the arc of justice and social movements. 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. With Johnson still on the ballot, McCarthy won an overwhelming victory in the Wisconsin primary. 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. 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. The results would likely have been the same. Two of the Chicago 7 defendants,Rennie Davis and John Froines, were at the memorial. 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. So, hope you like it ? Progressive values. Edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee and Daniel Greenberg / Foreword by Aaron Sorkin. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. 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 Hayden Recalls Meeting With JFK As A Student Leader - HuffPost Now, the leading living scion of one of America's most beloved political families was also hammering Johnson from the campaign trail. 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. Students were beginning to exercise power in American universities, carrying out sit-down strikes at prestigious academic institutions like Columbia. 'The radical inside the system': Tom Hayden, protester-turned Former State Senator and leader of sixties peace, justice and environmental movement. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. I told her I had watched the games on television and she brightened when I mentioned the black-gloved protest by two of the United States' finest sprinters, Tommie Smith and Jon Carlos, as they received their medals on the podium while the Star-Spangled Banner blared behind them, a protest similar to Colin Kaepernick's half a century later. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal . (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images). . 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. 2022 Open Secret Music (ASCAP,) Lapiotrope Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp. Used by permission. He literally spent himself for the cause, as he tended to do. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. I know that we all came away with a renewed commitment to making Toms vision of a true Democracy into a reality. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. The 1965 protest was the beginning of what historian Howard Zinn called the greatest antiwar movement the nation had ever experienced, a movement that played a critical part in bringing the war to an end. Speakers and performers at the 2015 conference included Julian Bond, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Daniel Ellsberg, Vivian Rothstein, Luis Rodriguez, Tom Hayden, former Congressmembers Ron Dellums, Pat Schroeder and Elizabeth Holtzman, Staughton Lynd, David Harris, Marilyn Webb, Rev. In later years, he ran for political office numerous times, winning seats in both the California Assembly and California Senate. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. Two months later, Hayden and Daley would lead opposing armies of the night into combat . With the size of the crowd, it was difficult to flee. 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. Feel free to republish and share widely. 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 government did not re-try the case, and thereafter elected to dismiss the substantive charges. The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. 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. [1] When Hayden was 10, his parents divorced, and his mother raised him. For the last 4 months, Toms widow Barbara Williams, Troy Garity, my son with Tom, and I have been working together to create a memorial that honored and celebrated Toms 6 decades of commitment to peace, justice and democracy. Which is why, while we were gathered to memorialize him and his time is now gone, this was and is Tom Haydens moment. "[28] Nevertheless, his FBI files also showed Hayden held meetings with some people who the New Left opposed, such as Rev. 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. 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. [citation needed]. Direct to your inbox. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. 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. But my euphoria was short-lived. Bonnie Raitt performs 'Angel From Montgomery' with Jackson Browne at the 2022 Billboard Women In Music Awards. Tom Hayden, famed 1960s anti-war activist, dies at 76 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." Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. Tom Hayden, anti-war activist-turned politician dies at 76 - CBS News Two of the most moving speeches were made by Alex Sanchez and DeWayne Holmes. It was a roller coaster year of emotional highs and lows, when unlikely dreams suddenly seemed possible, only to be dashed time and again. I arrived in California just as its Presidential primary election was ending on June 5. They met you, but with snipers, and left your friends all dead in the street. Napalm, a terrifying jellied gasoline that cooked people alive, was dropped indiscriminately. I wrote it down as soon as I got back home, and later sang it for my friends in the little coffeehouse on campus. 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. [5] They married in October the following year. 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. 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. 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. That fall, my friends and I continued to organize vigils and protests. It captures what so many felt: Ilearned so much more about the efforts and events that have shaped and changed the directions of so manythan I was conscious ofincluding those that have influenced and made possible my own courseI was awakened to such gratitude, and I found myself gaining inspiration and an inner charge to press forward with even more boldness. "I shall not seek, nor will I accept my party's nomination for President of the United States," he said, looking haggard and defeated. 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. He has taught at Evergreen State College and serves on the board of Earth Island Institute. Tom Hayden, Civil Rights and Antiwar Activist Turned Lawmaker, Dies at 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. [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]. An elderly and elegant gentleman wearing a fine wool sweater and dark-rimmed glasses, he spoke in Spanish, with translation. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. He was the author or editor of 19 books, including The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama, Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader, and his memoir, Reunion, and served on the editorial board of The Nation. On the convention floor, Peterson and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff rose to report that the police were beating people up outside. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. Women and gays were protesting discrimination. The most revered of the speakers was a man I'd never heard of until then. Mostly, we felt fortunate for having known him. 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. Only the Good Die YoungAttending Bobby Kennedy's Funeral Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation's best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa Monica after. 1443, 35 L.Ed.2d 706 (1973). Although The Statement did express regret at the "perversion of the older left by Stalinism," it omitted the LID's standard denunciation of communism. He had come to trust Bobby, despite the latter's wealth and establishment connections. While most pollsters expected McCarthy to be trounced by Johnson in the first primary election in New Hampshire on March 14, he ran a close race trailing the President by only seven percentage points. After initially resisting widespread calls for him to run as a candidate in the 1968 election, Bobby finally announced his candidacy from the Caucus Room of the Old Senate Office building, the same place his late brother . Michael Finnegan is a Los Angeles Times reporter covering federal courts and law enforcement. He previously covered state and national politics, including the 2020 presidential campaign. Although their casualties in the so-called "Tet Offensive" were enormous, the Vietnamese struck fear into American troops and their supporters back home. . It was from a prison cell in Albany, Georgia, where their ride was to land him, that Hayden began writing the SDS manifesto. During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. But none of the roughly 1,000 people who gathered to remember him doubted how vigorously he would have fought Trumps administration. 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. They have come back with a vengeance and a cruelty that makes Nixon seem benign by comparison. "[7] The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. [31] Starting far behind, Hayden mounted a spirited campaign and finished a surprisingly close second in the Democratic primary. [1] Hayden's dismay with Coughlin caused him to break with the Catholic Church as a teenager. Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste. 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. whose plane had been shot down. [34] Student representation fees are used to support the operation of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. Please give it a try and become a member or subscribe to the newsletter of Bonnies Pride and Joy! To illustrate the cultural impact that the Port Huron Statement had, we were able to get clips fromMad Men and the film,The Big Lebowski in which characters talked about the document and howcool it was. He was 76. Hayden and four others were convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, but the charges were later reversed and remanded on appeal. Kevin DeLeon,President Pro Tem of the California Senate, talked about what Tom accomplished as a member of the state legislature for 14 years when term limits forced his retirement. Their protest was completely peaceful, but the response of the police and guardsmen sent by the government to control them was not. Both spoke of how Tom had believed in them despite their troubled pasts. Berkeley, Social and political revolutions, http://img.youtube.com/vi/2Pq6G5bS8Yk/0.jpg. 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. (1972), Introduction to the Enemy (1974), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980) and On Golden Pond (1981). With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. Tom Hayden, famed 1960s anti-war activist, dies at 76 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. The reports suggested a lone gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, but I suspected that someone or something must have been behind him. As a member of the State Assembly, Hayden introduced the bill that became Chapter 1238 of the California Statutes of 1987. The next morning a hushed pall hovered over the university student union in Superior. bobby kennedy pallbearers tom hayden - massibot.net 1992Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp., Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. Luz, too, had watched it. Please read and accept our website Terms and Privacy Policy to post a comment. [12] By the end of 1964 ERAP had ten inner-city projects engaging 125 student volunteers. What a soaring speaker Tom was. The conference was followed by a commemoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. [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]. He was 76. . His hair was braided down his back, and he wore a beaded headband and black rubber sandals that the Vietnamese had made out of the tires of a downed U.S. plane. 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 demonstrations were broken up by what the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence later described as a police riot. 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.