The Port Huron Statement Turns 50  As we wait for the definitive
manifesto of Occupy Movement to be written—if that is possible
given the diverse range of opinions and voices that are
associated with it—this is arguably an opportune moment to look
back 50 years at another radical grouping, which did succeed in
putting together and consolidating its ideas in published form.
June 11, 1962 may not be recorded in many history books or
memories as a particularly important date. Yet, the 60 or so
people who gathered in a nondescript union training center in
the rural outskirts of a small lakeside Michigan town were about
to make a major impact on the U.S. political landscape.   Five
days later, the meeting had ended and the Port Huron Statement
(named after the town) had been written. The 24,000-word
document did not have a huge circulation but it did express a
set of influential ideas for a whole range of 1960’s groups
struggling for change. Anti-Vietnam war protestors, Civil Rights
activists and students dissat