Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful
working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective
liberation. Throughout the 1990s he was an organizer with Food Not
Bombs, an economic justice anti-poverty group, strengthening the
direct action-based anti-capitalist Left. In the 2000s, he was an
organizer with the Catalyst Project, which combines political
education and organizing to develop and support anti-racist
politics, leadership, and organization in white communities and
builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and nationally. He has
written and spoken widely about anti-racist organizing, lessons
from women of color feminism, strategies to build visionary
movements, and leadership for liberation. From California, he
currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his partner and their
son.
Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anarchist
organizer, writer, and educator who recently received his PhD from
the University of California at Santa Cruz. Dixon’s writing has
appeared in periodicals such as Clamor, Left Turn, Punk Planet, and
Social Movement Studies, and book collections such as Global
Uprising (New Society Press), Letters from Young Activists (Nation
Books), Toward a New Socialism (Lexington Books), Men Speak Out
(Routledge), and The Battle of the Story for the Battle of Seattle
(AK Press). He is currently completing a book based on interviews
with radical organizers across the U.S. and Canada focusing on
anti-authoritarian politics in broader-based movements. Dixon
serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the
advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, a child of landless
farmers. As a veteran of the Sixties revolution, she has been
involved in movements against the Vietnam War and imperialism,
union organizing, and was one of the founders of the Women’s
Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. Since 1973, she has worked
with Indigenous communities for sovereignty and land rights and
helped build the international Indigenous movement. A historian,
writer, and professor emeritus in Native American Studies at
California State University, she is author of many Indigenous
related books and articles, including Roots of Resistance: A
History of Land Tenure in New Mexico and The Great Sioux Nation, as
well as a memoir trilogy: Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie; Outlaw Woman:
A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975; and Blood on the Border: A
Memoir of the Contra War.
"In his writing and organizing, Chris Crass has been at the
forefront of building the grassroots, multi-racial, feminist
movements for justice we need. Towards Collective Liberation takes
on questions of leadership, building democratic organizations, and
movement strategy, on a very personal level that invites us all to
experiment and practice the way we live our values while struggling
for systemic change."
--Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez, founder of the Institute for
Multiracial Justice and author of De Colores Means All of Us:
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century "Chris Crass goes into the
grassroots to produce a political vision that will catalyze
political change. These are words from the heart, overflowing onto
the streets."
--Vijay Prashad, author of Darker Nations: A People's History of
the Third World "A deeply important, engaged, and learned defense
of anarchism, class politics, and anti-racism. Grounded in study,
organizing, and struggle, Towards Collective Liberation is a
significant contribution to the recent history of the U.S.
left."
--David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness "In his activism and
writing, Chris Crass has been able to articulate and practice a
transformative model for social change. Guided by a vision of
collective liberation that centers the experience and leadership of
women of color, Chris has done groundbreaking work to realize the
revolutionary potential of grassroots multiracial alliances."
--Harsha Walia, co-founder of No One Is Illegal and Radical Desis
"Chris Crass offers penetrating analysis and a keen understanding
of the political and cultural dynamics shaping the U.S. We can all
learn from reading this."
--Rev. David Billings, The People's Institute for Survival and
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