WORLD — Activism / October 23, 2026 Tom Hayden’s Legacy and the New American Left It’s been 10 years since he passed away. Michael Koncewicz Share Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Tom Hayden and fellow members of the Chicago Eight (later Chicago Seven) walk in downtown Chicago during their conspiracy trial, on October 8, 1969. (David Fenton / Getty Images) Standing in front of protesters on a misty day in Seattle, a 59-year-old Tom Hayden spoke into a bullhorn, declaring his hope.
“I never thought the time would come that a new generation of activists would part the waters, the waters in which your idealism is supposed to be drowned.” The venerable activist, cofounder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), had spent almost two decades
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