2022 Redwing Records, LLC. The battle inside and out stretched into the night. Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. And there was this surprising occurrence: In an almost three hour event, during which a dozen plus speakers ( bold face names among them) held forth, each tethered to the portside of American politics, not once was the name of the current president mentioned. Tom Hayden, the famed 1960s anti-war activist who moved beyond his notoriety as a Chicago 8 defendant to become a California legislator, author and lecturer, has died. 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. 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. With Johnson still on the ballot, McCarthy won an overwhelming victory in the Wisconsin primary. Maybe, I just heard Bonnies new song about organ donation! Our message was that Nixon was lying about ending the war. 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. http://img.youtube.com/vi/coEzsUJYikM/0.jpg. Two of the Chicago 7 defendants,Rennie Davis and John Froines, were at the memorial. 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 I will always consider it an honor to have met him. Bonnie Raitt Wins Song of the Year for Just Like That at Grammy Awards. 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. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Bonnie Raitts latest Grammy-winning song was recorded in a Bay Area studio, The Meaning Behind Bonnie Raitts Grammy-Winning Song Just Like That, Stunning Win for Bonnie Raitt at the Grammy Awards, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Quavo Shine a Light on Fallen Legends in Grammy Tribute Performance. And it was forever. He never stopped trying to make Democracy a reality. So, hope you like it ? The war in Vietnam was described as an imperial venture fought for oil and other resources. What a soaring speaker Tom was. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. 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. 1992Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp., Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. 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. 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. 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). What a soaring speaker Tom was. It was from a prison cell in Albany, Georgia, where their ride was to land him, that Hayden began writing the SDS manifesto. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "[7] The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. 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. Hayden lived in Los Angeles beginning in 1971[42] and was married to his third wife, Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. 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. 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. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. I was able to shake his hand later and tell him I appreciated it. 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Tom Hayden, Contributor. It struck me as a putdown of the poor, and racist as well. . [11] SDS community organizers would help draw white neighbourhoods into an "interacial movement of the poor". He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. He can be reached through his website: www.johndegraaf.com. He didnt see that I was from the most infamous gang. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. 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). It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. A beautifully emotional Alfre Woodard read from Toms memoir, Ed Begley spoke about Toms commitment to the environment and how it changed his life, ending by saying that he named his daughter Hayden in Toms honor. Hayden died in Santa Monica, California on October 23, 2016, aged 76, following a lengthy illness including a stroke. The next morning, the first driver to give me a ride was surprised that I hadn't heard the news. Im whats known as a Cantorial Songleader. [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. All rights reserved. The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. 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]. 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. Tom Hayden with his then-wife, Jane Fonda, and their son, Troy, Santa Monica, California. In 1974, he appeared in a brief scene as an ER doctor in the film Death Wish. The author of Evolution of an Unorthodox Rabbi (Dundurn Press, 2015), hes writing a memoir of his activist days when Tom Hayden was his teacher. But what I remember most from the conference was the small, sad-eyed young woman from Mexico that I also met there. I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. When it was over, I felt a slow realization that the times we thought were changing would change glacially if at all. Please give it a try and become a member or subscribe to the newsletter of Bonnies Pride and Joy! (1972), Introduction to the Enemy (1974), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980) and On Golden Pond (1981). 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. 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." Some of her friends were killed; she watched their blood darken the stones in the plaza before finally escaping the violence. 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.. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee and Daniel Greenberg / Foreword by Aaron Sorkin. 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 got pregnant during the tour in a motor home en route to Buffalo, NY. 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. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal Oak, Michigan,[1] to parents of Irish ancestry, Genevieve Isabelle (ne Garity) and John Francis Hayden. And all across my country from Boston to Berkeley. Hayden and four others were convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, but the charges were later reversed and remanded on appeal. A few days later, the Democratic Convention began in Chicago. The youth-led movement changed the very language of politics and its impact is still being felt today. Fonda recalled meeting Hayden at one of her slide presentations against the Vietnam War. In 2015 Tom wrote: 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. And because of you, and what you've been through. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. 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. While McCarthy was eloquent about the fiasco in Vietnam, Kennedy offered more hope of uniting the war protestors with union members, minorities and the poor. She stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. I would watch the audience hanging on his words as he broke their hearts open and then filled them with hope and new understanding. With twenty-five years experience in Chicago and across the country, Alinsky was considered the father of community organizing. As I said in my speech, letsthink about that strategy for today. It was calledthe Indochina Peace Campaign, IPC. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. 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. Yes, I can do more! 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], In 2016, Hayden ran to be one of California's representatives to the Democratic National Committee. At the National Student Association convention in Minneapolis in August 1960, Hayden witnessed a dramatic intervention by Sandra Cason. Direct to your inbox. Tom died last October surrounded by people who loved him. 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. Distributed by ADA. "Shot him in LA last night just as he was about to claim victory.". 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. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music. Arhoolie Foundation celebrates it's 60th anniversary (1960-2020) with an online broadcast. 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. Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there. 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. [2] His father was a former Marine who worked for Chrysler as an accountant and was also a violent alcoholic. Hayden died just over two weeks before Donald Trump was elected president. Chapter 1238 enacted Section 76060.5 of the California Education Code. 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. That was part of our shared commitment to the future. Hayden was a teaching assistant at the University of Michigan Journalism Department in the early 1960s. 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. Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who . He told the Royce Hall crowd that his father liked Hayden a lot, seeing in him a kindred Irish spirit. [34] Student representation fees are used to support the operation of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges. (Photo: Screenshot). An anti-war activist, I was 21 then and about to vote in my first election. [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. 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. With his big victory in California, Kennedy would surely have sailed to the Democratic nomination and almost certainly defeated his Republican opponent. The SDS was the vanguard of the student unrest that characterized the decade of the 1960s. Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste. 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 was a bum, Hayden critic Anthony Imperiale of the Newark Citizens Committee was shown saying to a burst of laughter and applause in Royce Hall. There was a "light at the end of the tunnel," he said. Created as a celebration of Prines life and career, the album features new renditions of some of Prines most beloved songs performed byBrandi Carlile(I Remember Everything), Tyler Childers(Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You),Iris DeMent(One Red Rose),Emmylou Harris(Hello In There),Jason Isbell (Souvenirs), Valerie June(Summers End),Margo Price(Sweet Revenge), Bonnie Raitt(Angel From Montgomery), NathanielRateliff& The Night Sweats(Pretty Good),Amanda Shires (Saddle in the Rain), Sturgill Simpson(Paradise) andJohn Paul White(Sam Stone). He had changed the lives of most present such was the power and personality of Tom Hayden. Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. If the enemy was indeed mortally wounded, it could not have mounted so many attacks in so many places at once, often with the inside help of South Vietnamese Army soldiers thought loyal to the U.S. 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. 2, the anticipated newJohn Prinetribute record fromOh Boy Records, is out today. It marked the end of my political innocence, born in the magic of John Kennedy's Camelot. 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. 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. 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. A final word: Hayden wasnt a hater. He had come to trust Bobby, despite the latter's wealth and establishment connections. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Sen. Robert F . I wrote it down as soon as I got back home, and later sang it for my friends in the little coffeehouse on campus. Bonnie Raitt, a longtime friend and supporter of Toms, sangChange is Gonna Come.. 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. "They killed Kennedy," he said. "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. (Photo: Screenshot), The Year That Changed Everything: A Personal Memory of 1968. He . I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups. Obituary. I think now of LBJ as the lead victim in a Greek tragedy. David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Hayden, and Bobby Seale. I found her inexpressibly lovely and wanted only to tell her things would be all right. 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. I always wanted to explore the Holocaust on a deeper level. He also taught at Occidental College and at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. He and Williams adopted a son. One of Bobby Kennedy's qualities, or perhaps it was a quality of the times, was an easy and growing familiarity with the New Left. The strategy worked. Speakers included well-known American radicals such as the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver.