Interview: Culture of Protest

Michael Ansara interviewed on “Culture of Protest” by UCSB Professor Emeritus Richard Flacks on KCSB. The Hard Work of Hope: That's the title of Michael Ansara's newly published memoir recounting his experience as a leader of the anti Vietnam war movement and a pioneer poet 60s community organizer. Michael is my guest on the Culture of Protest this week. It's a conversation that channels some of the drama and emotion in his writing. Michael was a student at Harvard in the sixties and given the current Trump attack on Harvard, we explore that history, including his public confrontation with Robert McNamara. Listen now >>