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The Port Huron Statement at 40
Hayden, Tom | August 5, 2002 issue

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The article assesses the relevance of the Port Huron Statement, the founding manifesto for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), for democracy. The concept of the term participatory democracy is the central focus of that document, which still appears as a live alternative to the top-down construction of most institutions. The Port Huron Statement was conceived at a winter meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961, which aims to produce an organizing tool for the movement that they were trying to spread through SDS. The author asserts that participatory democracy and the priorities of Port Huron continue to offer clues to building a committed movement toward a society responsive to the needs of the vast majority.

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DEMOCRACY; FREEDOM of movement; CIVIL rights; PORT Huron (Mich.); ANN Arbor (Mich.); MICHIGAN
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