Tom Hayden, Famed Anti-Vietnam War Activist, Dies

CNN ^ | Mon October 24, 2016 | Max Blau and Joe Sutton

[nickcarraway]

Tom Hayden, a peace activist whose radical views helped spur the 1960s anti-Vietnam War movement, has died.

Barbara Williams, Hayden's wife, told CNN that her husband died Sunday night surrounded by his family at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California.

Hayden, who served nearly two decades as a California state lawmaker, died from complications related to a stroke he had about 18 months ago, Williams said. He was 76.

[bestrongbpositive]

I was taught better than to cheer about someone dying but I just can’t help myself in his case :-)

[dp0622]

Thanks. Never been called an embarrassment to the board before :)

I’ll copy and save it for posterity’s sake :)

Trying to be the “bigger man” and “understand” our enemies has almost completely destroyed us.

[Hiddigeigei]

“good. I hope he suffered.” My first thoughts on hearing the news.

[dp0622]

I’m thought I was kind of thick skinned, but being called an embarrassment to the board kinda hit home.

Oh well. It IS an opinion board!!! :)

[Phlap]

The lucky so and so was married to Hanoi Jane when she was smokin hot.

[dfwgator]

I thought he married her after she went with the Klute lesbo haircut.

[ETL]

Tell me that you read my post 30 and STILL think we shouldn’t be celebrating the death of this treasonous POS.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3484271/posts?page=30#30

[Phlap]

She was still smoking hot.

[ETL]

The lucky so and so was married to Hanoi Jane when she was smokin hot.

"Lucky" to be married to a treasonous bitch who rooted for the North Vietnamese to defeat our troops? Were you that hard-up and lonely back then?

[DPMD]

Start the week with good news.

[KC_Conspirator]

Well...bye.

[ETL]

Here's Hanoi Jane remarking on the agenda that Obama refers to as (quote)
"The fundamental transformation of the United States of America"...

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react.

We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

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No great surprise here...

From RushLimbaugh.com:
Hanoi Jane Endorses Obama
April 3, 2008

REPORTER 1: Jane, who are you voting for?

REPORTER 2: Who gets your vote?

FONDA: Obama.

REPORTER 2: Oh, my God. Heaven help us all.

RUSH: The reporter for TMZ said, "Oh, God. Heaven help us all." Obviously the reporter is an Obama supporter.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040308/content/01125111.guest.html

[ETL]

FYI:
As recently as 2009 Fonda was STILL out promoting communist causes, despite her supposed conversion to Christianity.

In 2007 or 2008 she signed the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" call.

Check out some of the other big names on the list. They include former House chair John Conyers, Rep Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Hollyweird celebs, ex-US military (Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski)...

Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call Include:

James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090226021454/http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org (now http://revcom.us/) is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):

http://web.archive.org/web/20060830212529/http://www.rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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February 16, 1971: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland form "FTA" (F*** The Army), an anti-war, anti-American road show that tours near Army bases in order to undermine troop morale. Skits and songs portray American defeats, soldiers refusing to fight, and the murder of officers by their troops. FTA cast members mingle with soldiers after the shows, encouraging them to desert or to sabotage the Army.

http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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1971 FTA trailer (3 min youtube video): Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlkgPCgU7g
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Re: FTA ("F*** The Army")...

2009!...from Fonda's website...

Rare Screening of Restored Archival Print of Classic Vietnam War-Era Documentary

What: Screening of FTA
When: Monday, February 2, 2009
7:00pm, 9:15pm
Where: IFC Center (map)
323 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY, US 10014

With Former FTA Cast Member Jane Fonda in Person
Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm and 9:15pm
7:00pm show sold out!

FTA (1972, Francine Parker), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will have an ultra-rare screening in a restored archival print with former FTA cast member Jane Fonda in person, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm and 9:15pm; the 7:00pm show is sold out.

Following the screening, Ms. Fonda will talk about the film and her work in the controversial antiwar touring show in a discussion moderated by David Zeiger, director of the recent documentary Sir! No Sir! A portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit Iraq Veterans against the War, a nonprofit organization that advocates for ending the war and for providing support to returning service members.

Virtually unseen in any format since a brief theatrical run in 1972, FTA documents "the show the Pentagon couldn't stop." The revue, whose letters were said to stand both for Free Theater Associates and also Free (or, at times, another F-word) The Army, brought antiwar entertainment to military personnel at the height of Vietnam. Performers like Ms. Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Holly Near toured towns near military bases around the US and overseas, lending their support to troops who opposed the war. The film follows the troupe as it travels and performs near US military bases on the Pacific Rim -- Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines -- encouraging opposition to the war among the rank-and-file of US forces.

FTA is a gritty mix of rollicking performances and GI interviews, juxtaposing lighthearted political satire with the somber realities of war, occupation, and the absurdities of military life, a barbed rebuke to the staid USO program. From Okinawa to the Philippines, stirred by the show's provocative message, the members of the U.S. military find courage to speak out candidly in front of the camera.

Fonda and Sutherland are joined on stage by an all-star cast of musicians and activists including folk musician Len Chandler and comedian Paul Mooney. A fresh look at the Vietnam anti-war movement through the songs and skits that shook a generation, this film will leave you singing along with the fired-up men and women of the military. Foxtrot, Tango, Alpha... F*** the Army!

Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Tickets: $12 IFC Center members, $15 general admission.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090209113601/http://janefonda.com/category/my-appearances/

[nikos1121]

He never wore underwear, never brushed his teeth or wiped his behind...was another negative as I recall.

[ETL]

He never wore underwear, never brushed his teeth or wiped his behind...was another negative as I recall.

I'm afraid to ask... Not that I don't believe it's true. Most of these people are thoroughly deranged.

[duckworth]

Haven’t thought about this kook in years. Funny though, in reading up on him I smell the kooky limousine liberal philosophies of Clinton and Obama. We just couldn’t bury that whole hippie thing, could we... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2033795/Jane-Fonda-said-biggest-regret-sleeping-Che-Guevara.html

[ETL]

I thought I was kind of thick skinned, but being called an embarrassment to the board kinda hit home. Oh well. It IS an opinion board!!! :)

How could you think, even for a few seconds, that that ignorant jerk (LouAvul) represented anyone but himself when he made that moronic comment? Notice the punk didn't have the courage to explain or defend his remark.

[tumblindice]

Und tschüss schlechten Müll
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[dsc]

“I was taught better than to cheer about someone dying”

So was I, but I got over it.

[bestrongbpositive]

Me too and thanks God for it :-)