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King became a martyr because of his stand on Vietnam, not only because of his stand on race, justice, economic poverty. I know that Ron Dellums is going to speak to this.īut why was that-why was that chosen? It’s because, in keeping with trying to make sure our history is told accurately, we have to tell it ourselves. And I want to just say a word about that. And at 4:00, we’ll gather to march to the King Memorial. Today, we’ll have plenty of time for discussion, for panels, for observations. TOM HAYDEN: I want to start off by saying how many of you I love very much and known for such a long time, and I only hope that there’s enough minutes and occasions here for us to get to know each other again, because we have really been through a lifetime. We turn now to a speech Tom Hayden gave last year at a conference in Washington, D.C., titled “Vietnam: The Power of Protest.” In 1982, Hayden entered electoral politics, first winning a seat in the California State Assembly, later in the California Senate.
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He was convicted of crossing state lines to start a riot after he helped organize protests against the Vietnam War outside the Democratic National Convention. In 1968, Tom Hayden became one of the so-called Chicago 8. He also organized in Newark, New Jersey among his books, Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response.
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Tom Hayden was also a Freedom Rider in the Deep South and helped create a national poor people's campaign for jobs and empowerment. The statement advocated participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the ’60s. In the early '60s, was the principal author of the Port Huron Statement, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS. Tom Hayden spent decades shaping movements against war and for social justice. AMY GOODMAN: Legendary antiwar activist Tom Hayden died Sunday in Santa Monica, California, after a lengthy illness.