Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden
Thomas Emmet Hayden, known as Tom Hayden, is an American social and political activist, author, and politician, who is director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City, California. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden is the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1939
CountryUnited States of America
The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.
What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.
It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.
The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.