Now we have chosen a president, Barack Obama, who has known some of the Weather Underground veterans in their later incarnations. If he had been born 20 years earlier, Obama too might have given up on community organizing and become a black militant. The question he and the rest of us face today is whether we as a nation are prepared to act rapidly and deeply enough to prevent the conditions that provoke avoidable violence in a new generation yearning for substantial change. That's the question a reading of Rudd's book should make us ponder.
Tom Hayden, a founder of Students for Democratic Society (SDS) in 1962 and principal author of "The Port Huron Statement,"- is a former longtime California legislator, serving in both the state Assembly and the state Senate. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming "The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama," "The Newark Rebellion," "The Trial," "The Love of Possession Is a Disease With Them," "Street Wars," "The Lost Gospel of the Earth," "Ending the War in Iraq," and, most recently, "Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader."
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After fifty 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.
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