This document was released partly as a reply to a meeting at the estate of Great Elm two years earlier in Sharon, Connecticut, where journalist M. Stanton Evans drafted a similar work. It was contributed to by Dick Flacks and it ends by declaring that "if we appear to seek the unattainable, as it has been said, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable." Some of its sections are entitled "Values" and "The Society Beyond," and it begins by declaring "we are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort...looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." Its body promotes the notion of "participatory democracy" after which its author, Tom Hayden, outlines the idea
This document was released partly as a reply to a meeting at the estate of Great Elm two years earlier in Sharon, Connecticut, where journalist M. Stanton Evans drafted a similar work. It was contributed to by Dick Flacks and it ends by declaring that "if we appear to seek the unattainable, as it has been said, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable." Some of its sections are entitled "Values" and "The Society Beyond," and it begins by declaring "we are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort...looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." Its body promotes the notion of "participatory democracy" after which its author, Tom Hayden, outlines the ideal program of the "New Left." FTP, name this manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, released at a convention in the namesake Michigan city.
This document was released partly as a reply to a meeting at the estate of Great Elm two years earlier in Sharon, Connecticut, where journalist M. Stanton Evans drafted a similar work.
Port Huron Statement