Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden was born December 11, 1939. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1971. He is married to the actress Barbara Williams, with whom he has a son Liam. Tom had two children from his marriage to Jane Fonda.As a political activist in the 1960s, he was a co-author of the Port Huron Statement and stood trial as one of the Chicago Seven.
After the fall of Saigon, Hayden took up George McGovern's request to refuse aid for fleeing Vietnamese refugees. On May 5, 1975, Hayden spoke at Freeborn Hall of the University of California at Davis. When asked why there was such a large mass exodus of refugees out of Vietnam and why they seemed so frightened, Hayden replied that "they are remnants of a privileged class that we [the United States] created" and that they should be repatriated to Vietnam for re-education and to stand trial for their crimes.
Hayden was elected to the California State Assembly in 1982 and the California State Senate in 1992. He is national codirector of No More Sweatshops
He has written a number of books, including:
- The Lost Gospel of the Earth
- Irish on the Inside
- The Zapitista Reader
- Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s