We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation .
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About the Author: Tom Hayden, who drafted the Port Huron Statement in 1962 when he was 21 years old, was among the founders of Students for a Democratic Society, a Freedom Rider in the segregated South, a community organizer in the slums of New Jersey, an opponent of the Vietnam War who was indicted by Richard Nixon, and eventually served in the California Legislature for 18 years.
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It is truly the intellectual roots of the social change of the 1960s and its impact is still being felt in 2005.
The manifesto\'s 1962 publication preceded the phenomena of the counter-culture, hippies and back-to-the-land.
In its Vision greater democracy would lessen individuals\' alienation.
It opposed the dominance of the military-industrial complex with the hope that social movements could reform the Democrats as a party of progressive opposition.
It called for the extension of democratic principles to the workplace as well as the electoral arena.
The statement was a generational Call for direct participatory democracy in which Americans would have greater say over the decisions affecting their lives.
No document better frames and explains the 1960s than the Port Huron STATEMENT. ." --from the Port Huron STATEMENTFour key periods in American history have most influenced what America is like today: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, and the 1960s. .
We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation
