Antiwar activist Tom Hayden (right) in an interview with Cincinnati underground newspaper editor Alex Varone of The Independent Eye.
Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician. Hayden was best known for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual activist in the 1960s, authoring the Port Huron Statement and standing trial in the Chicago Seven case. In later years he ran for political office numerous times, winning seats in both the California Assembly and California Senate. At the end of his life he was the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County. He was married to Jane Fonda for 17 years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity. Hayden drafted SDS's manifesto, the Port Huron Statement. The objective of the Port Huron Statement was the creation of a "radically new democratic political movement" in the United States that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy. The statement represented the emergence of a "New Left" in the United States. The New Left often worked with, but was no longer part of, the remains of the American Left after concerted government efforts to destroy it. At its annual convention, the old Student League for Industrial Democracy, the "young people's division" of the "Old Left's" League for Industrial Democracy, representatives followed Hayden, adopted his manifesto, and changed its name and some of its major goals.[citation needed] From 1964 to 1968, Hayden lived in Newark, New Jersey, where he worked with impoverished inner-city residents as part of the Newark Community Union Project. He was also witness to the city's race riots of 1967, driven by far more than race alone, as Hayden would point out, and wrote the book Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response (1967).[citation needed] In 1965, Hayden, along with Communist Party USA member Herbert Aptheker and Quaker peace activist Staughton Lynd, undertook a controversial visit to North Vietnam and Hanoi.
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