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Tom Hayden: Things Come Around in the Mideast
Oct 28, 2016 From the archives: The veteran social activist, drawing upon his own rude political awakening to the realities of Israeli and Middle East politics during the 1980s, warns that the Israel lobby in the US aims to roll back the clock and change the map of the region, and that its neoconservative supporters will probably try to use the current Middle East crisis to ignite a larger war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran From the archives: The veteran social activist, drawing upon his own rude political awakening to the realities of Israeli and Middle East politics during the 1980s, warns that the Israel lobby in the U.
Tom Hayden on Iraq: Beyond the Horizon, the Storm
Oct 28, 2016 From the archives: In 2006, the social activist warned that an increasingly mainstream anti-war movement can be prone to loss of focus.
Tom Hayden: Revolution, Protest and America
Oct 26, 2016 From the archives: The social and political activist discusses the war in Iraq, U.S.-Cuba relations, and America's war on drugs (translated from a Cuban newspaper).
Tom Hayden: Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?
Oct 25, 2016 From the archives: The fundamental issue underlying the attitudes of the May Day protesters is that "either the Mexicans (and other Latinos) are immigrants to a country called the United States or the U.S. is a Machiavellian power that denies occupying one-half of Mexico for 156 years."
Tom Hayden’s New Port Huron Statement
Oct 24, 2016 From the archives: The veteran social activist wrote a new preface to the manifesto that helped shape a generation's views on racial equality, participatory democracy and the military-industrial complex.
Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd
May 8, 2009 Forty years after he helped destroy SDS, Mark Rudd condemns his role in Weatherman as "the greatest single mistake of my life … a historical crime." How did it happen and what did it mean? Why did peaceful protest give way to violent resistance? What lessons are to be learned from the failure to spurn the seductions of charismatic cults?
Tom Hayden Strikes Back
Apr 30, 2008 Chris Hedges is wrong. The left hasn't lost its nerve, it has found a voice capable of rallying millions. Progressives shouldn't turn their noses up at that kind of movement just because it isn't perfect.
A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud
Aug 30, 2006 Veteran social activist Tom Hayden interviews Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon.