Tom Hayden: "Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street" (with video)

Tom Hayden (The Nation) with video (02:31):

This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, issued as a “living document” in 1962. The SDS call for a participatory democracy echoes today in student-led democracy movements around the world, even appearing as the first principle of the Occupy Wall Street September 17 declaration. MORE...