Tom Hayden, shown narrating this video provided by Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO, is a well-known activist from the 1960s student movement. Once a founding member of Students For a Democratic Society, Hayden is now a writer, journalist, former politician, and adjunct professor. But in 1968 he and hundreds of other activists participated in the protests around the ’68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was arrested there as part of the Chicago Seven, a group of seven ‘ring-leaders’ charged with conspiracy to incite the riots.

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Today marks the one year anniversary of the Port of Tacoma Police Riots that thrust the issue of war resistance to the forefront of civil discussion across the Pacific Northwest. The well documented barrage of rubber bullets and gas-canisters ultimately became the unfortunate climax of a multi-day anti-war protest that initially drew support from city leaders and citizens of all walks of life before ultimately falling victim to conflicting accounts and unresolved questions of the parties’ intent. One year later, neither side has admitted fault nor failure for their cause.

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