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  1. A conversation about the Chicago Seven trial
    A conversation about the Chicago Seven trial

    with Tom Hayden, Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler and more on Oct 28, 1994

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Thomas Emmett “Tom” Hayden is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

Hayden was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he was editor of ‘The Michigan Daily’ and one of the founders of the student activist group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1961, he married Casey Hayden, a Texas-born civil rights activist who worked for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He served as president of SDS from 1962 to 1963, and drafted its most famous work, the Port Huron Statement. From 1964 to 1968, he lived in Newark, New Jersey, where he worked with impoverished inner-city residents as part of the Newark Community Union Project. He was also witness to the city’s race riots, and wrote the book “Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response”. Hayden also played a key role in the protests and violence surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. There, he was arrested as part of the “Chicago Seven”.

In 1976, Hayden made a maverick primary election challenge against sitting California U.S. Senator John V. Tunney. He and actress Jane Fonda, who he would marry and later divorce, founded the Campaign for Economic Democracy, CED, which formed a close alliance with then Governor Jerry Brown and successfully promoted solar energy, environmental protection, and renters rights policies while electing some 100 members to local office throughout California.

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