<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Voices of the Chicago Eight</TitleText> <Subtitle>A Generation on Trial</Subtitle>

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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864955 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100744650 02 0872864952 03 9780872864955 15 9780872864955 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Voices of the Chicago Eight</TitleText> <Subtitle>A Generation on Trial</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. 2 A01 Condon, Frank Frank Condon 3 A01 Sossi, Ron Ron Sossi 01 eng 200 00 200 03 01 The explosive protests and police riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the ensuing conspiracy trial gave voice to the tumultuous cultural, social and racial politics of the time. Throughout the long months of the now-infamous trial, Americas nightly newscasts featured updates and reports on the almost daily press conferences held by defendants and their supporters, galvanizing the nations interest in the unfolding battle between the forces of State repression and the burgeoning youth and anti-war movement. Frank Condon and Ron Sossi have crafted a powerful and dramatically gripping script from a careful selection of actual court transcripts, and "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" is their play. Performed to critical acclaim since 1979, it is accompanied here by an introduction and historical reflections written by Tom Hayden, one of the original Chicago 8 defendants. This incredibly potent book captures the trials original energy; confrontational and sometimes theatrical tactics; and its absolute outrage, presenting the dramatic and uncensored voices of Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, Yippie activists Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, poet Allen Ginsberg, and many more. Praise for "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial", winner of 5 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards: a tremendous rush of emotion ... a jolting evocation of a dark, disturbing moment in our history. Chicago Tribune powerful ... cant help but touch raw nerves ... wildly theatrical. USA Today This skillfully edited recreation of the 1969 Chicago Eight conspiracy trial makes spectacular dramatic use of court transcripts to present a drama in which the participants are as intense as the political atmosphere.... contains a surprisingly large dose of humor ... superb ... powerful production Variety beautifully realized a taut, exciting script.. The Nation 02 Dramatically edited transcripts from the explosive 1969 conspiracy trial are paired with historic contextual writings to provide the essential Chicago Conspiracy handbook 08 "In 1968, after civil rights marches, anti-war demonstrations, race riots, assassinations, and the Democratic convention, the authorities selected eight representative activists to receive punishment for the collective disobedience of the nation. Here are documents relating to that trial, including the play The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, court testimony, and essays about the violence across the country and in the streets of Chicago, the trial, the verdict, and the rest of history." Book News, Inc. 08 "Citizens complain about mudslinging this election year, but even the raucous cable commentators today seem tepid compared to Voices of the Chicago Eight. . .The authors capture the urgency in the streets during the 1968 Democratic National Convention that led to police and protester violence. . .With the distance of 40 years, it plays out as an absurdist satire, not serious courtroom drama, revealing a frustratingly ridiculous farce of justice." 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