Robert Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
You’re invited to join us this Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7:00pm for a Conversation in our studios between Robert Greenwald and long-time activist and author, Tom Hayden. The ultimate 60s activist, Tom went on to serve in the California State Legislature for eighteen years. He’ll share the insights gleaned from his forty years of activism [...]
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Kilcullen's Long War by TOM HAYDEN This article appeared in the November 2, 2009 edition of The Nation. October 14, 2009 ZINA SAUNDERS Let us say, hypothetically, that American forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, enabling President Obama to declare victory and bring our troops home. Would he? Not according to the Pentagon's plan for a fifty-year "Long War" of counterinsurgency...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Any possibility of capturing or killing Mullah Omar -- and in their deepest fantasies, perhaps Osama Bin Laden -- is an opportunity too exciting for the Pentagon and the president to resist.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
At a special event at Park Slope Methodist Church, political activist, writer, former State Senator from California, Tom Hayden critiqued the government's tendency toward military escalation in his anti-war address sponsored by Brooklyn for Peace held at the Park Slope Methodist Church. During the question and answer session that followed an audience member pointed out the event was taking place...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
David Pechesfsky, the Green Party candidate for City Council int he 39th district was at the Tom Hayden lecture sponsored by Brooklyn for Peace. On Monday, Pechefsky will be participating in a Democracy Forum at Old First Church with Brad Lander and Joe Nardiello, the other candidates for City Council int the 39th. Pechefsky had this to say about Tom Hayden's lecture. Hayden talked...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
In the 1960's Tom Hayden was an anti-war activist at the University of Michigan, and a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1961. He was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which represents an era." After forty years of activism, elected office (he was a California State Senator) and writing,...
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Fred's Humboldt Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The North Coast Journal's cover story this weekend is a guest commentary first published in the Bay Area Guardian. Taking my first look at the Journal's web page, I might have been appalled as I was when they ran the Obama fluff piece by Tom Hayden as their cover story back during the last presidential race. No opposing opinion was published back then. Shameless, I wrote ( Aug 28,2008 ) at...
American Power (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... serves on the Advisory Board with terrorist-enablers Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans of Code Pink, Tom Hayden, the '60s radical and founder of SDS, and Congressional Black Communists Barbara Lee of Oakland and Maxine Waters of Los Angeles - both of whom have made many a junket to Castro's Cuba and have praised Cuba's healthcare system as a model for America. Great going Democratic (Socialist)...
A conservative blog for peace (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... as central and heroic to the time.All of the most important leaders of the “anti-war” movement — Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Abbie Hoffman, Katherine Boudin, et al. — were very much in favor of violence and war. It’s just that they wanted our Communist enemies to win.I’m not anti-rock music.
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... with remarkable footage and interviews with many of the principals, including Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, Nancy Kurshan, Dennis Banks, an Attica guard and many of Kunstler’s colleagues. But, it is the tender family scenes with his second wife and young daughters (the filmmakers) that add depth and subtlety to this portrait.As young girls, Emily and Sarah Kunstler were raised to admire their...
Gary's Clever Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
LOPEZ : What’s wrong with the phrase “the anti-war movement”? LEAF : All of the most important leaders of the “anti-war” movement — Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Abbie Hoffman, Katherine Boudin, et al. — were very much in favor of violence and war. It’s just that they wanted our Communist enemies to win. Their love for violence was possibly...
American Power (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... gearing up for another event this week, " Resisting the US Occupation of Afghanistan ." Tom Hayden's speaking, but get this: NOTE: Absolutely NO still or video photography allowed for security purposes. Please leave ALL cameras at home. People with cameras will be turned away. Yeah. Great plan. That'll really keep the revolutionary agenda secret. Hayden has a new book, by...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... Alex's release and a fair trial. Included in the crowd of supporters was former State Senator Tom Hayden, author Luis Rodriguez, and Barrios Unidos founder Nane Alejandrez. Other vocal supporters have included UFW founder Dolores Huerta, Father Gregory Boyle, and hip-hop author Jeff Chang. Alex Sanchez was working to create peace and unity amongst our young people. In the past decade he...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... is the patient of the week and the following week, the 16th, features Troy Garrity (Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden's son and Henry Fonda's grandson). I'm still hoping and waiting for a Stephen Fry or Emma Thompson appearance before the curtain comes down on the series. It would be great if Charlie, Bill or Rebecca Laurie made a cameo or would be cast in a larger role. Rebecca did appear as the...
