{"id":3068,"date":"2012-04-13T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:31","slug":"sds-founder-tom-hayden-on-participatory-democracy-from-port-huron-to-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3068","title":{"rendered":"SDS Founder, Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/DemocracyNow.org\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJeAF3E2yl0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DemocracyNow.org &#8211; We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. The youth-led movement changed the very language of politics and its impact is still being felt today. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/167079\/participatory-democracy-port-huron-statement-occupy-wall-street\" target=\"blank\">&#8220;Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street,&#8221; by Tom Hayden, <em>The Nation<\/em>, April 16, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=2948\">Found Objects for a Friday Afternoon: The Port Huron Statement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy Now! DemocracyNow.org &#8211; We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[36,666,834,767,129,768,833,769,832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}