Tom Hayden

Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden ( born December 11, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American activist who has been involved in the early 1960s for the peace and civil rights movement.

In 1968 he was one of the legendary " Chicago Seven, " who had been arrested during the violent protests against the Vietnam War at the nominating convention of the Democratic Party and released a half years later. With the actress Jane Fonda, he was married from 1973 to 1990; 1973 their son Troy Garity was born. Since 1993 he has been married to actress Barbara Williams.

From 1982 to 2000 he sat in parliament for the Democratic Party of California: 1982 to 1992 in the House of Representatives, then to 2000 in the state Senate. He is the author of 15 books and numerous essays.

In his book published in 2007, " Street Wars " Hayden wrote down the result of his many years of work for the pacification and rehabilitation of transitional youth. In it, he argues that had been replaced in a modern form of racism, the term "race " with the term "criminals". The racial issue was so rhetorically transformed into a crime problem. The crime of ethnic minorities but is itself a consequence of the policies that have stamped through their hard approach the concerned criminals. From the perspective of our economic system, the gang members are human surplus that they wanted too happy to lock away. The inmates who work for little pay, you could then afford modern slave labor.