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Reading Tom Hayden: Writings for a Democratic Society

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"We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." So begins the famed Port Huron Statement, a manifesto written by a 23-year-old Tom Hayden for the burgeoning Students for a Democratic Society in 1962. While many of his colleagues burned out by the end of the '60s, Hayden carried the torch from the Newark riots to the 1968 Democratic Convention (where he was arrested as one of the "Chicago Seven"), from activism in Saigon to a speech at the 1999 WTO protests. Tonight, Hayden reads from a new City Lights anthology of his incisive written commentaries.

– Max Goldberg

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