Tom Hayden
The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution (Public Affairs, $14.99) refers to the 1962 publication, which called for a direct participatory democracy in which Americans would have greater say over the decisions affecting their lives. Its publication preceded the phenomena of the counter-culture, hippies, and back-to-the-land. Tom Hayden, who drafted the Port Huron Statement when he was 21 years old, is a radical social and political activist, best known for his involvement in the animal rights, anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He co-founded the Students for a Democratic Society and was a co-founder of the Economic Research and Action Project. Hayden was elected to the California State Assembly (1982) and has authored several books, including The Last Gospel of the Earth, The Whole World Was Watching, and Irish Hunger.
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