Inspiring Participatory Democracy

Tom Hayden is an activist, former senator and Professor at Occidental College, California. His most recent book is Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s (2003).

“The Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left.” —Michael Kazin, author, American Dreamers “The Port Huron Statement is one of those historic documents which represents an era.” —Howard Zinn “Tom Hayden and his colleagues forged a manifesto that still reverberates.” —Sam Roberts, The New York Times, March 3, 2012

• Part I Preface and Introduction; chapter0 The Port Huron Statement at 50, Robert Cohen; chapter00 The Dream of Port Huron, Tom Hayden; Part 2 The Way We Were and the World Now: Reflections by Port Huron Veterans; Chapter 1 Port Huron, Becky Adams; Chapter 2 The Progress We Created Is Now at stake, Paul Booth; Chapter 3 A Half Century Seeking to Live the Spirit and Method of Port Huron, Robb Burlage; Chapter 4 It Was a Rising sun, Mickey Flacks; Chapter 5 Port Huron After a Half Century, Richard Flacks; Chapter 6 The Evolution of a Radical’s Consciousness, Sharon Jeffrey Lehrer; Chapter 7 It’s Been Said I’m Still Unrealistic, Alan Haber; Chapter 8 Port Huron, Barbara Haber; Chapter 9 * Thanks to Jane Stembridge for saying my title, back in the day., Casey Hayden; Chapter 10 Part Icipatory Democracy Means Putting Your Body on the Line, Charles McDew; Chapter 11 Religion and the Spirit, James Monsonis; Chapter 12 A Young Christian Student at Port Huron, Maria Varela; Chapter 13 Part Icipatory Democracy, Michael Vester; Part 3 Teaching Strategies, Final Thoughts, and the Port Huron Statement; Chapter 14 Teaching the Port Huron Statement, Robert Cohen, Diana Turk, Stacie Brensilver Berman; Chapter 15 Part Icipatory Democracy from SNCC through Port Huron to Women’s Liberation to Occupy, Linda Gordon; Chapter 16 * For this reprinting of the Port Huron Document, minor changes to syntax, punctuation, and formatting have been made for clarity;