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Wednesday, August 7, 2002 at 10:00 AM EDT
Rebels with a Cause
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The Port Huron Statement was the first official document of the SDA and the most widely distributed document of the American Left in the 1960s.

The manifesto called for democratic reform that would include everyone and in which everyone would have a personal stake in the outcome. Passivity would be replaced with activism and real social change.

The Port Huron Statement claimed to be articulating an agenda for a generation.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of The Port Huron Statement, we ask if the manifesto’s importance today is nostalgia, or if its message still rings true? Is history repeating itself? Does this generation need its own version of The Port Huron Statement to address the challenges of the 21st century?

Guests:

Tom Hayden, social activist, principal drafter of the Port Huron Satement, former California State Senator, now fellow at the Nation Institute.

 
 

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