Editing Port Huron Statement (section)

==Argument==
The 25,700-word statement issued a non-ideological call for [[participatory democracy]], based on non-violent [[civil disobedience]] and the idea that individual citizens could help make the social decisions which determined their quality of life.<ref name=maurice>Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, ''America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) 169.</ref> Also known as the "Agenda for a Generation", it popularized the term ''participatory democracy''.<ref>[[Thorne Webb Dreyer]], [http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/thorne-webb-dreyer-peace-and-justice.html  "As Port Huron turns 50: Peace and justice activist Tom Hayden on Rag Radio"], The Rag Blog, ''Rag Radio'', January 26, 2012.</ref>

It has been described as "a seminal moment in the development of the [[New Left]]"<ref name=these/> and a "classic statement of [its] principles", but it also revealed the 1960s' tension between [[communitarianism]] and [[individualism]].<ref name=dionne>{{cite journal|last=Dionne|first=E.&nbsp;J.|title=Why the Public Interest Matters Now |journal =[[Dædalus]]| date=Fall 2007| volume=136|issue=4|pages=5–9| author-link=E.&nbsp;J. Dionne |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref> In particular, the statement viewed race ("symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry") and [[Cold War]]–induced alienation ("symbolized by the presence of [[Nuclear weapons|the Bomb]]") as the two main problems of modern society.<ref name="UVA-IATH">{{cite web |title=Port Huron Statement |url=http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SDS_Port_Huron.html |website=The Sixties Project |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref>