Tom Hayden

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Tom Hayden at the 2004 Democratic National Convention

Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939 in Detroit , Michigan , † October 23, 2016 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American activist who had been involved in the peace and civil rights movement since the early 1960s , as well as California politicians ( Democrats ).

Life

In 1968 Hayden was one of the " Chicago Seven " who were arrested during the violent protests against the Vietnam War at the Democratic Party's nomination convention and only released a year and a half later.

From 1982 to 1992 he sat for the Democratic Party in the California House of Representatives , then, from 1992 to 2000, in the California State Senate .

Hayden was the author of 15 books and numerous essays . In his book Street Wars , published in 2004 , he summed up his many years of work for the pacification and rehabilitation of gang youth . In it he advocates the thesis that in a modern form of racism the term “race” has been replaced by the term “criminals”. The racial problem was rhetorically turned into a crime problem. The criminality of the ethnic minorities is in turn a consequence of politics, which have branded those affected as criminals through their tough approach. From the point of view of our economic system, the gang members are a human surplus that one would love to lock away. The inmates are then allowed to do modern slave labor.

Hayden was married to actress Jane Fonda from 1973 to 1990 ; In 1973 their son Troy Garity was born. From 1993 until his death he was married to actress Barbara Williams .

Fonts

Tom Hayden (left) in 2007 with Mark Rudd at the launch of his book Ending the War in Iraq in Manhattan.
  • The Port Huron Statement , 1962
  • The Other Side , 1966
  • Rebellion in Newark. Official Violence and Ghetto Response , 1967
  • Trial , 1970
    • German language edition: The Chicago Trial. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971
  • The Love of Possession Is a Disease with Them , 1972
  • Vietnam - The Struggle for Peace, 1972–73 , 1973
  • The American Future - New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers , 1980
  • Reunion. A Memoir , 1988
  • The Lost Gospel of the Earth. A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit and Politics , 1996
  • Irish Hunger , 1997
  • Irish on the inside. In Search of the Soul of Irish America , 2001
  • Rebel. A Personal History of the 1960s , 2003
  • Street wars. Gangs and the Future of Violence , 2004
  • as co-author: Radical Nomad. C. Wright Mills and His Times , 2006
  • Ending the War in Iraq , 2007
  • Writings for a Democratic Society. The Tom Hayden Reader , 2008
  • Voices of the Chicago 8th A Generation on Trial , 2008
  • The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama , 2009
  • Bring on the Iraq Syndrome. Tom Hayden in Conversation with Theodore Hamm , 2007
  • Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters , 2015

literature

  • Tom Hayden: Hell No. The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement. New Haven: Yale University Press 2017. ISBN 978-0300218671 ; review

Web links

Commons : Tom Hayden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Finnegan: Tom Hayden, 1960s radical who became champion of liberal causes, dies at 76. Los Angeles Times , October 23, 2016, accessed October 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jonathan Fischer: Tom Hayden on gangs and ghettos: "Otherwise the madness never stops" . Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 9, 2007, accessed on October 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hayden, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayden, Thomas Emmett (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American peace and civil rights activist and California politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2016
Place of death Santa Monica , California