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When I spoke to hundreds of students in central Florida last week, only one mentioned the recent murder of Trayvon Martin, a…
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.
President Obama, in a prudent move, has relocated this May’s G-8 (One Percent) summit from Chicago’s unpredictable streets to the protected woods…
With Adbusters inviting 50,000 “culture jammers” to attend the NATO-G8 Chicago summit May 18-20, as part of an “International Spring Offensive” beginning on May…
During the past decade, this writer has remained skeptical about prospects of a US-supported war against Iran. The potential costs outweighed the…
As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the…
After the forcible eviction of Occupy Wall Street protesters in several major cities, the media are aflutter, with the Los Angeles Times asking, “Where…
The Occupy Wall Street protests began in Los Angeles Saturday. The Mayor and City Council should acknowledge the justice of their cause.…
Each generation should see The Battle of Algiers and see it over again, as a chilling preview to the Long War. In the film…
Slowly but surely, the United States is creeping deeper and deeper into a disastrous war in Pakistan. The peace movement and its…
The mainstream media has defaulted by its failure to report Afghanistan as basically a civil war in which the US and NATO…