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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864610 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100594600 02 0872864618 03 9780872864610 15 9780872864610 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Writings For A Democratic Society</TitleText> <Subtitle>The Tom Hayden Reader</Subtitle> 1 A01 Hayden, Tom Tom Hayden After forty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden still is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. Currently he is writing and advocating for US Congressional hearings on exiting Iraq. This year he drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco ordinances to end all taxpayer subsidies for sweatshops. Hayden was the "single greatest figure of the 1960s student movement", according to a New York Times book review. Forty years later he was described as "the conscience of the (California State) Senate" by the political columnist of the Sacramento Bee. When he retired in 2000 after eighteen years, including chairing the committees on higher education, labor and environment, he received the longest farewell of any legislator in memory, according to the Los Angeles Times. Hayden was a student editor at the University of Michigan, and a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1961. Hayden was author of the Students for a Democratic Societys visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which represents an era." He was a Freedom Rider in the Deep South, arrested and beaten in rural Georgia and Mississippi in the early Sixties. He became a door-knocking community organizer in Newark's inner city in 1964, part of an effort to create a national poor people's campaign for jobs and empowerment. When the Vietnam War invaded American lives, Hayden became an increasingly active opponent through teach-ins, demonstrations, writing, and making one of the first trips to Hanoi in 1965 to meet the other side and promote peace talks, journalistic contacts, and American POW releases. After the political system opened in the Seventies, Hayden organized the grass-roots Campaign for Economic Democracy in California, which won dozens of local offices and shut down a nuclear power plant through a referendum for the first time. The organization led the campaign for Proposition 65 (1986) requiring labels on cancer-causing products, and Proposition 99, tripling tobacco taxes to fund billions for public health and anti-tobacco initiatives. 01 eng 592 00 592 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Biography/Memoir 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Essays 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Politics 01 <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100744650">Read more from Tom Hayden on the 40th anniversary of the massive antiwar protests outside the 1968 DNC and the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial that followed in Voices of the Chicago 8: A Generation on Trial</a> For the last fifty years, Tom Hayden has been an outspoken advocate for civil rights, social justice, environmental protection and peace. He has also been a prolific writer, documenting and exploring a profound and constant search for alternatives to the injustices of modern America. It was Martin Luther King who first encouraged Hayden, a young writer, to cross the line from observation to direct action. In Writings for a Democratic Society, a collection of Hayden's essential political, personal, and cultural writings spanning his fifty years of active political life, we see him crossing that line over and over. From his earliest days as a Freedom Rider in the segregated South to his involvement in the street protests of 1968; from his years on the forefront of the anti-Vietnam War movement to his many years of service as a California state legislator, Tom Hayden’s writings celebrate and affirm an alternative American experience and constitute nothing less than a history of our times. Tom Hayden is the author of many books including Street Wars, Irish on the Inside, The Lost Gospel of Earth, and Ending the War in Iraq. He serves on the editorial board of The Nation, and has lived in the Los Angeles area since 1971. Praise for Tom Hayden: "Tom Hayden, a brave young voice who was saying what I wanted to hear in the civil rights battles and in the visionary aspirations of the 1960s. And he’s still saying it!" —<a target="blank" href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100520770">Lawrence Ferlinghetti</a> “Tom Hayden changed America. Before him, nobody saw the possibility of a political movement based on the middle-class college student’s quest for meaning in life. Hayden brought this movement to life, so was father to the largest mass protests in American history, whose reverberations we are still feeling today.” —The Atlantic "One comes away enthralled by Hayden's odyssey." – The Boston Sunday Globe 02 The best of Tom Hayden's writings from the turbulent 1960s to the Iraq war. 08 "Tom Hayden is perhaps most famous as a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society and for standing trial as one of the Chicago Seven together with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin because of his activities during the protests of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, but he has remained involved in politics and activism to the present day and currently serves as a member of the advisory board for the Progressive Democrats of America. This political reader thus collects materials of his spanning from the Port Huron Statement of SDS (excerpts) to writings against the Iraq War. It also contains Hayden's thoughts on the Vietnam War, electoral politics (he served in the California legislature and ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate and the Mayor of Los Angeles), gang violence, Irish politics, the environment, foreign policy, the legacy of the 1960s, the WTO protests and the global justice movement, and his own personal life." Book News, Inc. 08 "In Writings for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden has collected many of his articles, essays, and book excerpts from a prolific career . . . he demonstrates how gut-wrenchingly wrong America's leaders can be . . . . Hayden's book deals with far more issues than the 1960s, Vietnam, and Iraq. He writes about the super-predator myth of our inner cities; the destruction of our environment; his 20 years as a state legislator; the protests against the World Trade Organization over the adverse effect of 'free' but not 'fair' trade on small, poor communities in other countries; and his own personal journey to discover his Irish ancestry. Nothing he writes about is easy. There are no pat answers or resolutions. But one theme persists throughout: what he calls 'radicalism' . . . . This, Hayden acknowledges, is an extremely difficult task. But his book, with harsh insights into prevailing American views, is one place to start." —Robert Milo Baldwin Bloomsbury Review 08 "Former California State Senator Hayden (Ending the War in Iraq) has a long history of activism and politics, much of which has been chronicled in his writing; this collection pulls together more than four decades of work tackling vital social issues, from civil rights and Vietnam to genetically modified foods, Iraq and the global justice movement. Hayden writes in a clear and heartfelt manner, turning spotlights not just on problems, but on the commonsense, and often overlooked, implications of those problems: 'A country that fails to provide living wages for so many of its young is more committed to its present privileges than its future potential'; 'American empire seeks American independence by plunging other nations, cultures, and classes into dependence, which in turn triggers a spiral of resentment and resistance.' These grim pronouncements are balanced by a sense of optimism and a clarion call for action: 'The times are too hard for us to respond simply as comforters of the oppressed we must move ahead concertedly with our goalthe changing of society.' Dense and wide-ranging, this is a thorough survey of an important thinker and activist. " Publishers Weekly 08 It isnt the size of the book that makes it monumental; its the life that has gone into the writing and that is reflected by it. Not many Americans have done so much making of history while, at every juncture, taking the time to be a participant observer of the scenes and events one is helping to shape. The writings so producedare remarkably moving and insightfulsuggest[ing] that Tom Hayden could have been one of the great journalists of our time, given his ability to combine a penetrating style, keen eye and an unusually sharp theoretically informed mind. these Writings dont tell stories or express ideas for their own sake; each of them is making a point in an ongoing debate with the powers that be and reflects a persistent effort to challenge the complacent and the passive. But some of these pieces are deeper and more durable than topical advocacy. Tom has had, from his earliest work, something to teach both activists and intellectuals about the tensions and connections between them. But 60s oldsters now are stirring themselves to new action rather than reflection. Tom Hayden himself has been tirelessly speaking, writing and organizing in hope of mobilizing grass-roots opposition to the war in Iraq. Some of the pieces in Writings express his excitement on encountering the street-level global justice movement. He and other 60s veterans are even more excited by the Barack Obama youth surge. It inspires hope for social regeneration in some of the ways the youth revolt of the 1960s offered. Richard Flacks This review can also be found on Znet at: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17920 Truthdig 08 "Written in a laymans hand and with a voice that is at once intelligent, honest, deliberate and forthcoming, Haydens Writings for a Democratic Society celebrate and affirm an alternative American experience, while constituting nothing less than a history of our times. Just knowing there are people like Tom Hayden working vigilantly to improve and revitalize our flawed political system gives me grounds for hope. So, if you are one of those who have given up on any hope for a progressive United States of America, I encourage you to pick up a copy of Writings for a Democratic Society and treat yourself to the kind of social and political idealism that truly has made America great." Thomas Rain Crowe Smoky Mountain News 08 "Tom Hayden reveals a more personal side in this collections of nearly 50 years of his writing on social activism. . .Writings offers a considerable counter-record to official misrepresentations such as Tonkin Gulf and 'Mission Accomplished'as well as a surprisingly personal account of how one activist has tried to remain consistent, relevant and truthful across his own long, strange trip. . . Well into his own 60s, Hayden continues to call for economic democracy and against policing the world. Perhaps he's come full circle: 'Our gains will be modest, not sensational. It will be slow and exhaustingly complex, lasting at the very least for our lifetimes.' Hayden wrote thatin 1961." Abe Peck Los Angeles Times 08 "Hayden's 'Democratic' '60s ideals relevant now. . .As an anthology by a '60s activist, this book is probably the best there is. . . Hayden's voice is probably more important than ever. . . In many ways, his book shows how large a shadow the '60s cast on the present. For anyone caught up in the tug-of-war of the presidential election, Writings provides a means to measure McCain, Clinton and Obama, all of whom owe a great deal to the '60s, in one way or another. Organized chronologically, Writings for a Democratic Society includes essays, pamphlets, op-ed pieces and excerpts from previously published books. The writing is crisp, clear, provocative and inspiring." 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