What do you stand for?
The Sanders campaign will have a deep lasting impact on social movements, younger progressive Democrats, local elections and presidential politics far into the future
Tom Hayden
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. Currently he is writing and advocating for US Congressional hearings on exiting Iraq. This year he drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco ordinances to end all taxpayer subsidies for sweatshops. He recently has taught at Pitzer College, Occidental College, and Harvard's Institute of Politics. He has written eyewitness accounts for The Nation , where he serves on the editorial board, about the global justice movements in Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Chiapas, and India. He is the author or editor of thirteen books.
Today’s papal encyclical, “Praised Be”, may be the most important religious teaching to be released in decades
The DWP acts like a rogue agency, and is far behind many investor-owned utilities in implementing the million-solar rooftops program
“Baltimore today was everywhere in 1967, 1968”
The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history
Our soldiers are killing themselves or each other
The evidence is growing that communities of color will no longer accept their previous fate of being dumping grounds and sacrifice zones for industry
The hostile US policy, euphemistically known as “regime change,” has been thwarted
Welcome to year ten of the long war
What possible logic of persuasion could ever counter this deep pathology?