Remembering Tom Hayden, Mechanics’ Institute

Tom Hayden, who passed away last October, was an iconic figure in America’s anti-war movement and a campaigner over many years for peace and justice in Northern Ireland. He led an extraordinary life of organizing, writing, and political reform. He put himself on the line during Mississippi Summer in 1964, was a principal opponent of the Vietnam War, a defendant in the Chicago Seven trial, and served nearly 20 years in the California legislature. He was the principal author in 1962 of the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society. This event offers an occasion to think more deeply about the prospects of change and making history in America, past, present, and future.

Moderated by Steve Wasserman, Executive Director of Heyday with Honorable Mayor Willie Brown, Clara Bingham, author of Witness to the Revolution, and “Yippie Girl” Judy Gumbo Albert.

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6:00pm. Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA  94104.

Co-sponsored by City Lights Books & Publishing