Tom Hayden at Keene State College (w/ Video!)

September 28, 2007

On Tuesday, September 25, activist and politician Tom Hayden came to the Keene State College campus to discuss the unique role that students and ordinary citizens can play in ending the war in Iraq. He spoke in the Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center.

As a leading antiwar figure in the 1960s and a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Hayden wrote extensively on Vietnam and was one of the small number of Americans engaged in dialogue with both sides during the Paris peace talks. As an Irish-American, he spent 10 years supporting and writing about the peace process leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. As a California legislator, he devoted himself to writing about and trying to prevent inner-city violence. He remains a stalwart antiwar activist and is credited with initiating the 2005 Congressional exit-strategy hearings on Iraq.

The video of the event is below.

Posted in Iraq War, Lectures and Speeches, Tom Hayden