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30 Minutes- Tom Hayden Part 3
Tom Hayden Part 3 (30:14) 2008-12-28
30 Minutes- Tom Hayden Part 3
Final installment of Tom Hayden's benefit appearance for KXCI. by Amanda Shauger As part of KXCI's 25th Anniversary celebration, KXCI was pleased to present author and activist Tom Hayden for an evening of analysis and discourse to an audience of over 150 people in a benefit for KXCI on December 4th at First Christian Church.

Hayden began writing 50 years ago for the University of Michigan student paper. He was a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and drafted the Port Huron Statement which depicted the vision of this new student movement.

He was a leader of demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention and was later famously tried along with 7 others in the Chicago 8 trials.

Hayden would go on to organize the Campaign for Ecomnomic Democracy in California. In 1982 he was elected to the California State Assembly and the State Senate 10 years later for a total of 18 years in the California legislature.

He is the author of numerous books and currently blogs for the Huffington Post and is on the editorial board of The Nation Magazine.

More information about Tom Hayden is available at www.tomhayden.com.

This is the third portion of Tom Hayden's December 4th talk, which includes responses to the audience.
30 Minutes is a weekly half-hour public affairs program produced by KXCI programmer Amanda Shauger. It airs each Sunday at 3pm. We invite you to listen to this edition on your computer by clicking the link above. To subscribe to the Podcast click here. © Copyright 2012, KXCI