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ROOT CAUSES
California Activist speaks on gang wars
BY JAYMEE R . C lT I
rehabilitation, toexecutives and politicians
who have profited from the rotating door of
America is at war, not against terrorists, private prisons.
but against it’s own. This war has left
Hayden documents that conservatives
25,000 young people, mostly men o f color, have set up a system where it’s more prof­
dead in America. Thousands o f others are itable to lock up gang members than ad­
shell shocked, roaming the streets of Los dress the socio-economic conditions that
Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and yes, even lead disconnected youth to gang life.
Portland, with little hope o f reintegrating
"Politics o f root causes just evaporated,
into society. These are the victims o f street replaced by politics o f law and order,” said
wars.
Hayden.
Prominent lefty Tom
He drew parallels be­
H ay d en ta lk e d w ith A / 7zz
tween the war on drugs
Portlanders last week at
and another impossible-
Po well’s Books about the
to-measure war on a noun:
root causes of gangs, and
terrorism.
a global perspectives of
“I’m not denying that
street wars, worldwide.
gang members or terror­
Hayden is a former
ists cause violence. I ’m
C a lifo rn ia
se n a to r,
saying it’s good politics
founder o f Students for a
to have a scapegoat that
Democratic Society, and
you can have an abound­
liberal organizer during
ing war on,” Hayden said,
the civil rights era. Cur­
claiming the “prison in­
rently, he works to abol­
dustrial complex” and law
ish sweat shops in Los
enforcem ent are direct
-T om Hayden
Angeles and abroad, and
beneficiaries o f the war
recently penned “Street Wars: Gangs and on gangs.
the Future of Violence.”
H a y d e n ’s tra v e ls th ro u g h C e n tra l
Speaking to an audience o f about 50 at America helped uncovera U.S. policy, which
Powell’s Pearl Room, Hayden described he suggests violates immigration law. The
the effects of gang warfare, claiming that United States has been deporting Latino
two-thirds o f the prison population in men and women suspected o f gang activity
California is gang affiliated.
to inhumane prison conditions in their na­
“They are traumatized veterans from an tive countries.
unofficial, undeclared war,” he said.
H ayden’s heavily researched book is
He paired images of gang members who available at Powell’s Books and through
defy stereotypes and have responded to www.thenewpress.com.
T he P ortland O bserver
not denying
that gang members
or terrorists cause
violence. I ’m saying
it ’s good politics to
have a scapegoat
that you can have
an abounding
war on.
photo by
M ichael R cbenstein /T hk P ortland O bserver
California activist and 60s radical Tom Hayden speaks of the prison industrial complex at Powell's Books.
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