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The Port Huron Statement [1] is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). [2] It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park), for the group's first national convention. [3]
In drafting the Port Huron Statement, Hayden acknowledged the influence of a Bowdoin-College German-exchange student, Michael Vester. He encouraged Hayden to be more explicit about the contradictions "between political democracy and economic concentration of power", and to take a more international perspective. [ 7 ]
The Port Huron Statement (1962) The Other Side (1966) "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.), The Radical Papers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1966; pp. 350–364. Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response (1967) Trial (1970) The Love of Possession Is a Disease with Them (1972)
In clashes with Tom Hayden and Alan Haber, he argued that their Port Huron Statement was insufficiently explicit about excluding communists from their vision of a New Left. [14] Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. called Harrington the "only responsible radical" in America.
The Port Huron Museums’ Carnegie Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday through May 26 when it’ll be open daily until Sept. 15. For more information on programs and exhibits ...
An internal review by the Port Huron Police Department found no fault in the actions of the officers who responded to the death of Joshua Conant on Nov. 4. ... making statements at a city council ...
The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s. It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the era's liberal establishment, campaigned for freer lifestyles on a broad range of social issues such as feminism, gay rights, drug policy reforms, and gender relations. [1]
Port Huron Area Schools will be reviewing indigenous imagery from three schools in its district. Scenes from the Port Huron High School commencement ceremony at McMorran Arena in Port Huron on ...