After forty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden still is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. A great figure of the 1960s student movement, Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society, and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which represents an era." He was a Freedom Rider in the Deep South, arrested and beaten in rural Georgia and Mississippi in the early Sixties, and then became a door-knocking community organizer in Newark's inner city in 1964 to help create a national poor people's campaign for jobs and empowerment. Hayden was an active opponent to the Vietnam War through teach-ins, demonstrations, and writing. He also made one of the first trips to Hanoi in 1965 to meet the other side. After helping lead street demonstrations against the war at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, where he was beaten, gassed and arrested twice, Hayden was indicted in 1969 with seven others on conspiracy and incitement charges. After five years of trials, appeals, and retrials, he was acquitted of all charges. In the Seventies, Hayden organized the grass-roots Campaign for Economic Democracy in California. Hayden was elected to the California state assembly in 1982, and the state senate ten years later, serving eighteen years in all. He also served twice on the Democratic Party's national platform committee. Altogether he has attended ten Democratic national conventions, six times as a delegate. In 1996 and 2000, he was elected as a delegate by the largest caucus vote in California. Tom Hayden has been a true leader in the integration of people's movements for peace and justice with citizen participation in government, bridging the gap between the public and the officials who make decisions that affect the lives of millions of people.
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After forty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden still is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. A great figure of the 1960s student movement, Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society, and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which represents an era." He was a Freedom Rider in the Deep South, arrested and beaten in rural Georgia and Mississippi in the early Sixties, and then became a door-knocking community organizer in Newark's inner city in 1964 to help create a national poor people's campaign for jobs and empowerment. Hayden was an active opponent to the Vietnam War through teach-ins, demonstrations, and writing. He also made one of the first trips to Hanoi in 1965 to meet the other side. After helping lead street demonstrations against the war at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, where he was beaten, gassed and arrested twice, Hayden was indicted in 1969 with seven others on conspiracy and incitement charges. After five years of trials, appeals, and retrials, he was acquitted of all charges. In the Seventies, Hayden organized the grass-roots Campaign for Economic Democracy in California. Hayden was elected to the California state assembly in 1982, and the state senate ten years later, serving eighteen years in all. He also served twice on the Democratic Party's national platform committee. Altogether he has attended ten Democratic national conventions, six times as a delegate. In 1996 and 2000, he was elected as a delegate by the largest caucus vote in California. 
