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Tom Hayden is Founder and Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center, a past president of Students for a Democratic Society, former California state senator, and author of the Port Huron Statement, The Lost Gospel of the Earth, Ending the War in Iraq, and The Long Sixties.
The Port Huron Statement’s core message is timeless but not dogmatic: we all need participatory democracy.
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