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. Might he have a chance? 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. 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. Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. A beautifully emotional Alfre Woodard read from Tom's memoir, Ed Begley spoke about Tom's commitment to the environment and how it changed his life, ending by saying that he named his daughter Hayden in Tom's honor. Some inner cities exploded in anger. She stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. 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. I never saw Luz again after that night. From a working class family in Royal Oak, Michigan, a student and alter boy in the arch conservative Father Coughlins Temple of the Little Flower, Tom became editor of the prestigious Michigan Daily and, after reporting on the new Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the early 60s, the civil rights bus boycotts and sit ins in the South, he stepped out from behind his notepad and became an organizer and builder of movements. [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. denied, 410 U.S. 970, 93 S.Ct. Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee for President, promised a "secret plan" to end the war while condemning antiwar protestors in the name of what he termed "the silent majority." Yes, our ground troops were coming home but the air war was beingescalated unbeknownst to most Americans and, in the south, our allies were imprisoning, torturing and corruptingVietnamese civilians in our name. I got pregnant during the tour in a motor home en route to Buffalo, NY. A few days later, the Democratic Convention began in Chicago. He can be reached through his website: www.johndegraaf.com. 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. In this deeply moving, visionary talk, he considers how a grassroots movement might overcome the most powerful empire in world history. [32], Hayden later served in the California State Assembly (19821992) and the State Senate (19922000). The omission wasnt an evasion; it was testimony to the man we came to remember and what he was about. Hayden was dubbed "the liberal rebel" by George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times . Edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee and Daniel Greenberg / Foreword by Aaron Sorkin. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrates it's 20th anniversary with an online broadcast titled Let The Music Play On. It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. [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. 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. All rights reserved. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. 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. Recorded on tour June 3, 2017 - Centennial Hall, London - Ontario Canada, Activist & Politician Tom Hayden 1939-2016 Memorial Video, http://img.youtube.com/vi/Mxz2QBsslrE/0.jpg. He understood that progressives had to be prepared to take power and learn to govern, not just protestsomething else we would do well to think about for today. [1], Hayden attended Dondero High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Among the most important progressive political figures of our era, he co-authored the historic SDS-founding Port Huron Statements in the early 1960s, was a defendant in the trial of the legendary Chicago Seven, and went on to serve as a California State Senator. 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. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Bonnie Raitt about her friendship with the Mose Allison. A popular movement that succumbs to hate will soon enough see its promise in pieces and its time gone. Proceeds from the album will benefit twelve different non-profit organizations, one selected by each of the featured artists. [1] When Hayden was 10, his parents divorced, and his mother raised him. Hayden told HuffPost Live how empowering it was for him and his fellow student leaders to deliver a proposal to Kennedy and witness Kennedy carry it out in the . You see,Tom wanted to win. 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. [18][19] Staughton Lynd later wrote that the New Left disavowed "the Anti-Communism of the previous generation", and that Lynd and Hayden had written, in Studies on the Left: "We refuse to be anti-Communist. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal . [15] His profile in Newark attracted the attention of the FBI. 1992Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp., Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. Los Angeles, Downtown L.A stabbing sends six to hospital; 1 arrested, San Diego Roman Catholic diocese facing yet another lawsuit from its insurance company, K-Pop isnt the only hot ticket in Koreatown how trot is captivating immigrants, Los Angeles is suddenly awash in waterfalls, Officials unprepared for epic mountain blizzard, leaving many trapped and desperate. That was part of our shared commitment to the future. [citation needed]. Progressive values. The battle inside and out stretched into the night. Although their casualties in the so-called "Tet Offensive" were enormous, the Vietnamese struck fear into American troops and their supporters back home. He and Fonda later initiated the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), which formed a close alliance with then-Governor Jerry Brown and promoted solar energy, environmental protection and renters' rights policies, as well as candidates for local office throughout California, more than 50 of whom would go on to be elected. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy . [40] He also claimed that he never endorsed Sanders and only supported his campaign with the hope that it would push Clinton's policies leftward. Hayden and four others were convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, but the charges were later reversed and remanded on appeal. You watched them in the sky. "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.). Tom Hayden with his then-wife, Jane Fonda, and their son, Troy, Santa Monica, California. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. Hayden also founded the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), which operated from 1972 to 1975. And you wanted to try to catch what they symbolize. It seemed unreal. There was just cool and uncool. A growing body of New Left analysis, including C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite and G. William Domhoff's Who Rules America? She had come to the conference with several other student leaders from the Olympic protest. The comment form collects your name, email and content to allow us keep track of the comments placed on the website. (Two of his codefendants, Rennie Davis and John Froines, attended the service.). Kennedy's funeral seemed surreal. In a lengthy account of the riots, Hayden was unblinking about the inevitable,. To a standing ovation she turned back a motion denying support for sit-ins in the struggle against racial segregation: I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, Wait, And having decided that I cannot urge caution, I must stand with him. Alan Haber of the fledgling Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) recruited her on the spot. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Tears flowing. 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. "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. A group of us from Superior joined another from our twin city of Duluth, Minnesota, for a long bus ride to the conference. Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Made Up Mind (Lyric Video). 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He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. He evolved from 1961 to 1963 from viewing the . An elderly and elegant gentleman wearing a fine wool sweater and dark-rimmed glasses, he spoke in Spanish, with translation. Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. I think now of LBJ as the lead victim in a Greek tragedy. [1] Hayden's dismay with Coughlin caused him to break with the Catholic Church as a teenager. "[20], In 1968, Hayden joined the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe"), and played a major role in the protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. We held the memorial at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday February 19. Their protest was completely peaceful, but the response of the police and guardsmen sent by the government to control them was not. My 22 yr old son Cameron gave his whole. "The radical inside the system: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76.". Lets take those three simple words and embrace the future! He was married to actress and social activist Jane Fonda for 17 years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity. His speech was strongly-worded, but thoughtful and not merely rhetorical. 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. [40], Hayden maintained that he remained radical towards the end of his life, commenting, "I'm Jefferson in terms of democracy," he said, "I'm Thoreau in terms of environment, and Crazy Horse in terms of social movements". People came from all over the country who had been in the trenches with Tom, some from the very beginning. Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife Jane Fonda, has died.