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DESCRIPTION:moderated by Steve Wasserman, with Clara Bingham, Willie Brown Jr., and 
 Judy Gumbo\n\npresented by Mechanics' Institute Library in conjunction with 
 City Lights and Yale University Press\n\nTom Hayden, the principal author 
 in 1962 of the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, the 
 Port Huron Statement, 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. His death in Santa Monica at age 76 in October 2016 offers an 
 occasion to think more deeply about the prospects of change and making 
 history in America, past, present, and future.\n\nThis evening we celebrate 
 the release of\n\nHell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace 
 Movement\n\nBy Tom Hayden\n\npublished by Yale University Press\n\n"Hell 
 no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American 
 history-the effort to end the Vietnam War, which included ?thousands of 
 veterans. The movement was divided among radicals, revolutionaries, 
 sectarians, moderates, and militants, which legions of paid FBI informants 
 and government provocateurs tried to destroy. Despite these obstacles 
 millions? marched, resisted the draft on campuses, and forced two sitting 
 presidents from office. This movement was a watershed in our history, yet 
 today it is in danger of being forgotten, condemned by its critics for 
 everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal. In this 
 indispensable ?essay, Tom Hayden, a principal anti-Vietnam War organizer, 
 ?calls to account elites who want to forget the Vietnam peace movement and 
 ?excoriates those who trivialize its ?impact, engage in caricature of 
 protestors and question their patriotism. In so doing, he seeks both a 
 reckoning and a healing of national memory.\n\nCritical Praise for Hello 
 No:\n\nTom Hayden, legend of the Sixties and the antiwar movement, offers a 
 powerful reflection that transcends caricature and stereotype, and reminds 
 us why a democratic society needs a genuine mass opposition that points 
 toward values of peace and justice." — Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 
 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: 
 Vietnam and the Memory of War\n\n"Tom Hayden gives an insider's view of the 
 unprecedented movement against the Vietnam War--a movement that brought 
 together (and divided) America. He chronicles and analyzes that broad 
 opposition from its initial brave days through its singular final success. 
 He also documents the ways politicians, police, and the FBI tried to 
 destroy it. Critics accused the antiwar movement of treason; Hayden shows 
 himself and ?fellow dissenters ?to be exemplary patriots. This is a 
 necessary and hugely important book."--Amy Wilentz, Professor of English, 
 University of California, Irvine, and author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A 
 Letter from Haiti\n\n"The actual history of the Vietnam War and the 
 movement to stop it is a heretofore largely obscured treasure trove for 
 Americans looking to understand their country and themselves.  Tom Hayden 
 maps and evokes that rediscovered history for us as an eyewitness, a 
 superior researcher, and a keen-eyed analyst of movements and international 
 policy.  Hell No portrays a national conscience on the move and how it 
 succeeded despite all odds.  All of us will be the better for reading this 
 book."--David Harris, author of Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It 
 Did To Us\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/01/24/18795749.php
SUMMARY:Remembering Tom Hayden: A Life of Activism and Radical Reform
LOCATION:Mechanics' Institute Library\n57 Post St\nSan Francisco, CA 94104
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/01/24/18795749.php
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