Thomas Emmet Hayden, known as Tom Hayden (born December 11, 1939), 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 their son, actor Troy Garity.
Hayden graduated from the college preparatory Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. He then studied at Marshall University in Huntington in western West Virginia, where he was the student body president and a member of the West Virginia Board of Trustees. He is employed in the financial services industry. His father is Thomas Lee Hayden (born 1932), formerly a mathematics professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky, and now of Lewisville, Texas. Hayden's great-grandfather drove cattle on the old trails in Texas and purchased a ranch in 1890 near Moran, Texas, which is still in the Hayden family. Hayden's grandfather was an attorney, district attorney, and the mayor of Abilene, Texas, during the 1930s and 1940s. Hayden is Vice President of Investment Strategy for Liberty Bankers Life.
"There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help."
"Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed."
"If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the so-called band of brothers, volunteering for duty with the Kerry campaign. They look like men with scores to settle."
"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
"I was for Gore. I thought that Gore and the Democrats were pretty clueless as to what Nader and the Greens represented, and they acted like bullies."
"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."
"In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and includes a lot of right-wing terrorists. It was favorable territory for the police. They had the protesters outnumbered 10-1."
"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
"I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors."
"I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a really hard time getting elected because of my views. L.A. is very ethnic. Many of the Jewish voters would not support me because of my views on the Middle East."
"I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental."
... grandson of a clown and with 16 great-aunts and great-uncles who spent their lives performing in Tom Duffy’s, one of the oldest travelling circuses in the world, Hayden has showmanship in his blood.
Then-murder suspect Iraia-Burgess was the subject of a multi-day manhunt last year after Otess’ body was found ...Photo / Hayden Woodward. Tom Dillane is an Auckland-based journalist covering local government and crime as well as sports investigations ... .
*** ...Pete Wilson signed legislation prohibiting the use of carbon monoxide in shelter killing, while the HaydenAct, sponsored by Tom Hayden, the 1960s activist and then state senator, extended the time a stray animal was held before it was put down.
If you’d like a clearer history, read “Listen, Yankee! Why CubaMatters” by SM’s own Tom Hayden...TOM MORELLO – There are a lot of really good guitar slingers (especially in LA), there are a handful of indisputably great ones, and there is Tom Morello.
On his watch, in 2017, the senate held an event for New Left icon Tom Hayden, a former state senator and husband of actress Jane Fonda, who supported the Communist regime in Vietnam... against Hayden.
Chicago Tribune
12 Nov 2024
Chicago Tribune
12 Nov 2024