Detailed review in Foreign Policy in Focus: While not providing a clear antidote to Trumpism, Michael Ansara’s “Hard Work” still delivers indispensable insights into activism from the 1960s to today. 

Joe Klein writes the Sanity Clause newsletter on Substack and is the author of seven books, including Primary Colors.

Forthcoming interview with Michael Ansara from Boing Boing writers and editors Carla Sinclair and Mark Frauenfelder

CSPAN Books: Community organizer and poet Michael Ansara joined Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to discuss activism in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Civil Rights movement and efforts to bring an end to the Vietnam War.

Jim Lardner interviews Michael Ansara on The Good Trouble podcast: The 1960s and the 2020s: Michael Ansara on the Civil Rights struggle, the New Left, the anti-Vietnam-War movement, and what do we do now? 

Michael Ansara spent  years as an activist and an organizer, starting with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, going on to be a regional organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He spent 10 years organizing opposition to the war in Vietnam. For 15 years, he was a community organizer, including directing Mass Fair Share. He has worked on political campaigns, coordinated voter registration efforts, and trained many organizers. He joins The Culture Show to talk about his new memoir “The Hard Work of Hope,”  which takes us into his days of activism.

Book excerpt in Harvard Magazine: Michael Ansara ’68 cut his teeth in the civil rights movement and was a leader in the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society as well as a New England SDS organizer.

Radio Open Source interview: We’re retracing our steps out of the last bad-dream era in American life. Michael Ansara was in the thick of that struggle too, around war and justice. The Hard Work of Hope is his memoir of many losses and his own big mistakes that come back, 50 years later, as lessons and blight.

Michael Ansara is a long-time activist and organizer whose work dates back to the 1960s and ‘70s — from the Civil Rights Movement to antiwar demonstrations. His memoir, “The Hard Work of Hope,” was published last week. In the essay below, he reflects on his experience on the front lines of movements that contributed to lasting change, and why it’s essential to not only hold onto hope but to act on it — and keep acting on it — together. It’s followed by an excerpt from his memoir. 

Michael Ansara interviewed on “Culture of Protest” on KCSB - 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. 

Interview: Explain Boston to Me. In this episode, we're joined by Michael Ansara, author of the recently released memoir, The Hard Work of Hope, to talk about the 1960s and its mass protest movements in Boston.

Long-time organizer Michael Ansara interviewed on The Nation’s podcast “Start Making Sense with Jon Weiner”: How does a movement build support when large parts of the country are opposed to its goals? How do you connect with people who disagree with you?

Packed crowd at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington DC, where Heather Booth interviewed Michael Ansara about organizing and his new memoir, The Hard Work of Hope.

In this wide-ranging interview for The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner speaks with longtime organizer Michael Ansara about his new memoir The Hard Work of Hope and the lessons it offers for today's fight against voter suppression.

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Ron Carver sits down with lifelong activist and author Michael Ansara, whose powerful new memoir The Hard Work of Hope traces his journey from a 13-year-old stepping into a Woolworth’s picket line to leading anti-war and grassroots campaigns across the country. Ansara reflects on building hope through action, the lessons of SDS, and the importance of solidarity today.

In a thoughtful new review, The Progressive calls Michael Ansara’s The Hard Work of Hope “a compelling memoir that reminds us that the arc of history bends toward justice—but only if we push.”

Michael talks to DrT about lessons we can learn from the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements--and what's different now.