Watch The Radical Imagination: Port Huron and the New Left Revisited with Todd Gitlin

In the 1960’s, many Americans were against the U.S. government’s decision to get involved in the Vietnam War. Protests broke out, anti-war groups assembled and the quest for radical change began.

On this episode of "The Radical Imagination;" Todd Gitlin, an iconic political activist from the 1960’s New Left movement, returns to the show for a critical analysis of one of the most active anti-war groups of the 1960’s, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Dr. Gitlin and host Jim Vrettos, a sociology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discussed the organization’s history, its relevance today and the Port Huron Statement.

Dr. Gitlin was at the forefront of the New Left Movement of the 1960s, serving as SDS president in 1963 and 1964. Now, he is a professor of journalism and sociology and the chair of the Ph.D. in Communications program at Columbia University. In addition, he has written 15 books, such as “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” and hundreds of articles for publications like the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe.

Firehouse TV’s “The Radical Imagination” airs every Sunday at 8:00 pm on MNN1 (TWC 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33 or streaming live) and repeats every Thursday at 8:00 pm on MNN4 (FiOS 36, RCN 85, TWC 67 & 1998 or streaming live).