The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.