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The Port Huron Statement at 50

University of California-Santa Barbara
February 2-3, 2012

We invite you to attend a conference which brings together historians, social theorists, contemporary student activists, and Port Huron veterans to discuss the origins, historical impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto. Keynote speeches by:

 

Michael Kazin

  

Tom Hayden
 
Prof. of History, Georgetown;
Editor of Dissent. Kazin's talk is titled, “Two Cheers for Utopia: Port Huron and the Fate of the Not-so-New Left.” 		 
Principal drafter of the statement; co-founder of Students for a Democracic Society. Hayden's talk is titled, "Fifty Years of Participatory Democracy, From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street."


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Charles McDew
Joshua Freeman
Lisa McGirr
Grace Hale
James Miller
Alice O’Connor
Richard Flacks
Charles Payne
Eric Olin Wright

Daniel Geary
Bob Ross
Nelson Lichtenstein
Vivian Rothstein
Ben Manski
Michael Vester
Jane Mansbridge
Howard Winant
Steve Max

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Sponsored by Dissent, The Nation  and at UCSB the Dick Flacks Democracy Fund,
Associated Students, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the
Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.