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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.
The United States government is facing defeat in Afghanistan. But that is not a bad thing in comparison to the alternative: waging…
Seif Quaddafi, the surviving son of Libyan dictator Muammar Quaddafi, has a lot to say of global interest – if he doesn’t…
The triumph of Scott Walker and the Tea Party Republicans in Wisconsin is heartbreaking for the many thousands who devoted over one…
The vast outpouring of protest in Chicago last week was a promising sign of health for progressive social movements, but still left…
By moving the G8 meeting to Camp David, President Obama deflated or delayed the rebirth of the Occupy movement once hoped for…
Having spent two days in Wisconsin this past week at another conference on participatory democracy, I found the progressive tide running strongly…
The Obama Speech, A Guide to the Perplexed Tom Hayden Tomhayden.com http://tomhayden.com/home/the-obama-speech-a-guide-to-the-perplexed.html?printerFriendly=true This proposed partnership agreement has been rushed…
In a recent op-ed, "Is US-Afghan Agreement a Prelude to Afghan Civil War?" AFSC’s Matt Southworth is right in projecting a trajectory…
This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, issued as…