[Dialogue] JWM's marrying of Tom Hayden & Casy Cason inspires SDS

[Ken Fisher]

In this 1997 book by James J. Farrel, it says that Students for a Democratic Society was inspired by conversations that took place after Joe Mathews performed the wedding of Tom Hayden and Sandra 'Casey' Cason, a SNCC worker who came to New Left politics via the Christian Faith and Life Community.

 

1.           The spirit of the sixties: making postwar radicalism - Google Books Result
books.google.ca/books?isbn=0415913861...
James J. Farrell - 1997 - History - 360 pages

2.           Joe Mathews performed the ceremony, which included readings from ... What was needed, said Tom Hayden, was "a way to connect knowledge to power and ...

This month, SDS turns 50.

Amy Goodman interviews Tom Hayden on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Port Huron Statement advocating the creation of the Students for a Democratic Society and connects the current Occupy movements with the past.

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/?task=viewvideo&video_id=73446

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