Thomas Emmett “Tom” Hayden ( eng. Tom Hayden ; December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016 ) is an American left-wing social activist who has become a liberal political figure. Former husband of American actress Jane Fonda , later husband of Canadian actress Barbara Williams ; father of actor Troy Garity.
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Biography
Born in Detroit in a working-class family of Irish descent, former parishioners of the parish of the right-wing Catholic priest Charles Coughlin . During his studies at the University of Michigan, he demonstrated excellent successes and was the editor of the student newspaper Michigan Daily .
Unhappy with the conformism and anti-radicalism of existing student organizations, he early joined the Students for a Democratic Society association , created on the basis of the socialist League for Industrial Democracy in 1960-1961. In 1961, he married his first wife, Sandra "Casey" Keson, who worked on the Student Coordinating Committee for Non-Violence, fighting for the civil rights of African-Americans. Tom himself joined the Freedom Riders , counteracting racial segregation in the southern states.
One of the first American " new left " and theorists of participatory democracy , the author of the program document of the organization Students for a Democratic Society - Port Huron Declaration. Gained fame in the 1960s for his important role in antiwar protests against the Vietnam War , the civil rights movement, and the radical intellectual counterculture .
In 1965, he opposed the American military intervention in Indochina, together with a member of the US Communist Party , historian Herbert Apteker and Quaker , peace activist Stoton Lind, made a resonant visit to North Vietnam ( Hanoi and places affected by the US bombing), following the results of who published a book called The Other Side , where, unlike official American propaganda, the United States was exposed as the aggressor, and Vietnam was described by Hayden as the affected side. For this trip and its coverage, Hayden was regularly called a “traitor” and other offensive words; he was repeatedly attacked by the American right. Subsequently, thanks to his contacts with the Vietnamese, several groups of American prisoners of war were freed.
For his activities, he was repeatedly arrested. So, he was one of the " Chicago Seven " - leftist activists (including yippie Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin ), accused of organizing "riots" during the 1968 Democratic National Congress .
Since 1976, having significantly moderated his views, he put forward his candidacy in various elections. From 1982 to 1992, he was a member of the California State Assembly, and from 1992-2000, the State Senate. Within the Democratic Party, he represented the Progressive Democrats of America group that defended progressive values and was a member of its advisory council. He supported the alter globalization movement [6] (in 1999 he protested against the WTO summit in Seattle) and protests against the Iraq war. In 2008, he actively supported the presidential campaign of Barack Obama .
He was Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles , California . He taught numerous courses on social movements at a number of American universities. He was the author or editor of 19 books, including a collection of his works The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama, Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
- ↑ 1 2 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/27/tom-hayden-obituary
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 123409764 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Tom Hayden: “The United States is committed to creating an empire”