Tom Hayden-Green Politics...In Memory

On the passing of Tom Hayden

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-tom-hayden-snap-story.html

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/24/tom-hayden-one-great-20th-century-activist-leaders-dies-76

Politics of the Spirit: A Dream of California

Excerpt / 1995

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-1.pdf

"We spends billions annually simply for the fossil fuels wasted"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-2.pdf

"We are adrift between the Petrochemical Age and the Ecological Age"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-3.pdf

"The narrow band of hybrid seed stocks favored by traditional agribusiness relies on high inputs of petrochemical fertilizers,

which have radically degraded the "ecological capital" of our soil and water"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-4.pdf

"Distrust of the political order and of politicians is rising"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-5.pdf

"...the common dependency candidates have on campaign contributions... candidates tend to think like the contributors..."

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-6.pdf

"The effort to achieve campaign reform and lobbying reform... is about awakening the power of citizens to have meaningful lives"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-7.pdf

"Politics... about service, about aligning government with the needs of people and the planet"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-8.pdf

"The average working person has only 16 hours of leisure time each week, down from 26 hours only 20 years ago. There is a positive alternative..."

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-9.pdf

"Thirty years ago, in the Port Huron Statement, we who began the 60s student movement wrote not only of political reform but of the need to address 'lonliness, estrangement and isolation.'

We wrote that love and compassion should overcome the 'idolatry of worshiping things."

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Politics_of_the_Spirit_A_Dream_of_Calif_by_Tom_Hayden-1994-10.pdf

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Lost_Gospel_of_the_Earth_by_Tom_Hayden_LATimes-1.pdf

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Lost_Gospel_of_the_Earth_by_Tom_Hayden_LATimes-2.pdf