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This collection of Crass' essays and interviews with other highly skilled organizers provides deep insights, showing how anti-racist, feminist practice helps our movements win by transforming the systems that divide us and undermine our collective success." —Jason Hurd, TruthOut A conversation with white, middle class, male activist, Chris Crass, author of Towards Collective Liberation, who, inspired by the works of bell hooks, describes the importance for everyone, but in this conversation, white men in particular, to be invested in antiracist, feminist and anti-capitalist work. —Radio interview, "Words to Live By," 103.3 Ashville FM, https://www.ashevillefm.org/post/words-to-live-by-towards-collective-liberation-sunday-1-2pm/"Activists operating in a similar milieu as Crass will benefit from his hard-learned lessons, while those first encountering the modern anarchist tradition will find a forthright portrait of its aspirations and frailties from the mind of an engaged and persistently optimistic movement veteran." —Publishers Weekly"A deeply important, engaged, and learned defense of anarchism, class politics, and anti-racism . . . Towards Collective Liberation is a significant contribution to the recent history of the U.S. left."  —David Roediger, author, Wages of Whiteness"In his activism and writing, Chris Crass has been able to articulate and practice a transformative model for social change . . . Chris has done groundbreaking work to realize the revolutionary potential of grassroots multiracial alliances."  —Harsha Walia, cofounder, 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 Beyond"Towards Collective Liberation may be the “Rules for Radicals” for a growing trend of anarcho-practicos who up until this point have had little literature to make their case with." —www.LeftEyeOnBooks.com"Towards Collective Liberation is a powerful and honest work that underscores the importance of confronting racism and sexism and nurturing the leadership skills of new organizers to reach their full potential as a force that can radically transform society."  —Yutaka Dirks, Briar Patch"This brilliant collection of essays is the real organizing deal because with each essay the message is clear: working for justice is deeply intersectional, vulnerable, and messy work."  —Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, The Feminist Wire"Towards Collective Liberation is a memoir, toolkit, self-help book, strategy reflection, and call to arms all at once." —Joshua Kahn Russell, Yes!"With Towards Collective Liberation, veteran activist and writer Chris Crass has filled a number of conspicuous voids in radical literature, seeking to render the aspirations of feminist and antiracist struggle plain, practicable, and their realization imminently possible." —Joshua Stephens, WIN 

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About the Author

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. He has been an organizer with Food Not Bombs, an economic justice anti-poverty group, and with the Catalyst Project, which combines political education and organizing to develop and support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organization. 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. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been involved in movements against the Vietnam War and imperialism, and union organizing, and was one of the founders of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. She has worked with Indigenous communities for sovereignty and land rights and is also a historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Native American Studies at California State University. She is author of books and articles, including Blood on the Border, Outlaw Woman, and Roots of Resistance. She lives in Oakland, California. Chris Dixon is a longtime anarchist organizer, writer, and educator with a PhD from the University of California–Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in periodicals such as Clamor, Left Turn, Punk Planet, and Social Movement Studies, as well as in book collections such as The Battle of the Story for the Battle of Seattle, Global Uprising, Letters from Young Activists, Toward a New Socialism, and Men Speak Out. He serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. He lives in Sudbury, Ontario.

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Product details

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: PM Press; 2.5.2013 edition (May 1, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1604866543

ISBN-13: 978-1604866544

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6 x 0.9 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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4.9 out of 5 stars

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Love this book! A conversation much needed!

Great book

Great book so far. I can't wait to discuss with my revolutionary friends. I was suspicious to read an anti-racist feminist book written by a white man, but he's learned from the best (e.g. bell hooks) and really knows his stuff! I definitely recommend it to those wanting to educate themselves for the revolution.

Towards Collective Liberation is an amazing offering to social justice activists. With characteristic clarity and humility, Chris Crass provides lessons learned and practical tips for making a commitment to an anti-racist and feminist practice. I wish that this book had been available when I was younger and deep in coming to understand my white privilege and with White Supremacy in the United States. This book is at once inspiring, humble and a call to action.

Chris explains some of the lessons that he and the organization he works with learned and adds some good insite into creating a new left. A great read and I took much away from it.

I attended a workshop with Chris and have heard so many good things about this guy from my activist friends. I haven't started reading the book yet but am already very excited for it!

Chris Crass is an anarchist organizer. For those whose perception of anarchism begins and ends with broken windows, this may seem like an oxymoron. The tradition has a tortured relationship with organizing. Anarchism's fingerprints can be found on many of the important social movements since the late 1980s; ranging from the AIDS activism of ACT-UP to the anti-nuclear and Global Justice Movements. Other currents within the anarchist tradition hold organizing leads to hierarchy, compromise and cooptation.Crass walks anarchism down a very different road. His anarchism, and that of the political organizations he helped build, isn't afraid of community organizing. It also isn't afraid to reach across the radical aisle and work with marxists, feminists, liberals and just about any other category that makes it to the meeting. His new book, "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy" may be the "Rules for Radicals" for a growing trend of anarcho-practicos who up until this point have had little literature to make their case with. (In 1993, Tom Knoche formulated a case for anarchist participation in reform organizing, see Organizing Communities in the journal Social Anarchism.)"Towards Collective Liberation" is an impressive contribution to radical thought. Crass outlines a vision of anarchism rooted deeply in the anti-racist tradition, and influenced by feminism.He's most at home when teasing out the lessons of his own politicization. The exploration of Food Not Bombs (FNB) is a delightful surprise--combining a sober assessment of the movement's weaknesses with a nuanced description of their accomplishments under fire during San Francisco's War For Space. Here, he carefully avoids demonizing FNB personalities who made destructive mistakes, but pulls no punches in the final analysis. He sets a high bar for constructive discourse without stooping to polemics.His ability to grapple with the complexities of the Civil Rights Movement and draw implications for anti-authoritarians is unique. Instead of approaching social movements in terms of all-or-nothing reductionism Crass identifies ways for radical organizers to engage with them and think outside the Infoshop.The book isn't without some key weaknesses. In some essays, Crass' over-reliance on jargon obscures his otherwise salient power of observation. He raises important points, "we need a revitalized, dynamic, and visionary Left politics that draws from many traditions, not just anarchism, but also Marxism, feminism, revolutionary nationalism and others;" then only scratches the surface of the mechanics of doing so.Other themes left under-examined are the strengths and weaknesses of the interventions his organization, the Catalyst Project made in the name of racial justice in key moments such as the response to hurricane Katrina and the immigrant rights upsurge. I find it odd that the process of committed anarchists traveling to other cities in order to challenge "white supremacy" in the movement didn't yield deeper reflection. What were the moments when this strategy bolstered local organizing? When was it unwelcome by locals? Did it ever feel a bit vanguardist, and if so, what was to be done?Thankfully, Crass' has a political vision of anti-racism, separated from individualistic notions of white guilt and "invisible back packs." He recognizes white supremacy as a system and a historic roadblock to social transformation. While centering race and colonization, he also avoids reducing race to the only dilemma facing organizers today. In this sense, he snatches anti-racism from the jaws of the professional diversity trainers polluting today's discourse.Taken as a whole, the book makes the case for an anarchist practice relevant to, and a part of, the lives of everyday people, and the larger Left. With humility and optimism, Crass offers critical insights hard won through a life on the frontlines. "Towards Collective Liberation" is an important read, not just for anarchists, but anyone pondering the road forward.

Towards Collective Liberation is a book of many parts. These pieces of history, memoir, interviews, and lessons can be read separately, but they all gain from being read up against each other. Some have been published previously and can be found on his website, chriscrass org, along with additional essays and interviews that extend the book. Chris Crass explains that he set out to share his understanding "that people with privilege [need] to go through a process of developing identity politics based on their privileged identities. The goal of this would be to develop analysis for people with privilege to understand themselves in relationship to both historical systems of oppression and systemic social change. These politics would be rooted in a commitment to collective action for revolutionary change." He does this based on a life of activism from his high school discovery of anarchism (in Orange County in the late 1980s) through numerous other collectives and campaigns, including struggles for Ethnic Studies, Food Not Bombs, the Battle of Seattle, Challenging White Supremacy, Catalyst Project and others. Anarchism is a consistent thread throughout the book. The detailed narrative of the anarchist movement in the contemporary U.S. laid out by Chris Dixon in the introduction and by the author in his chapter on Food Not Bombs will be very helpful to those not already immersed in those politics, as it has been to me. And for those who have traveled through that history, Crass provides a probing reexamination. Crass' version is a generous, warm-spirited, eclectic anarchism that is non-sectarian - or rather, anti-sectarian. This was a revelation to this old New Lefty, so completely different from the bitter ideological struggles of the 60s and 70s. Since I was drawn to the book from bumping up against Chris and comrades in street actions, political education, and solidarity work, it was not surprising to find such an embracing view. As he spells it out in the first chapter: "I believe that ideas, insights, and leadership from different Left traditions, such as anarchism, Marxism, feminism, revolutionary nationalism, queer liberation, and revolutionary non-violence are needed as we create a political movement that draws the best from the past and opens space for new visions, ideas, and strategies." This is quite a mash-up, but most of the time it is fertile compost. Certainly better than our New Left practice of never letting the boiled peas touch the white bread or the mystery meat on our plates. Some readers may wonder who the book is written for. In his opening chapter, Crass explains: "throughout the process of writing and conducting interviews, I thought often of my teenage activist self and so many others going through similar journeys of becoming activists. I share my own experiences and lessons, as well as those of some of the most outstanding white anti-racist organizers in the country, with the hope that they help you in your own process of developing as an effective, healthy, and visionary long-haul activist, organizer, and leader." Some passages have a more specific audience. Crass writes in his history of San Francisco Food Not Bombs that this is "an essay for other people raised male who identify as men and who, like me, are Left/anarchist organizers with privilege struggling to build movements for collective liberation. It is written for men in the movement who have been challenged on their sexism and male privilege and are looking for support." That is, of course, not the only audience. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz points to a wider readership in her foreword, emphasizing the connections across generations and movements that Crass advocates. Indeed, reading her own memoirs (Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie,Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975,Blood on the Border : A Memoir of the Contra War) juxtaposed to that of Crass (and others) makes for a much deeper grasp of left history than any social science tome. Again, an important contrast to the experience of my generation, when we returned the scorn heaped upon us by the Old Left with our slogan of never trusting anyone over thirty. The last section of the book consists of interviews with Catalyst Project in the Bay Area, San Francisco's Heads Up Collective, the Rural Organizing Project in Oregon, Louisville's Fairness Campaign, and Groundwork in Madison. These interviews are valuable extensions of the white anarchist anti-racist politics laid out in the first chapters. However, Crass' earlier piece on Food Not Bombs is a better model of critical reflection, making the reader wish for sharper analyses of these efforts. Some of the "lessons learned" may seem a bit didactic. However, many activists of Crass' generation have welcomed these and god knows we could have benefitted from something like this in 1968. And 1969. And 19.... Taken in context with personal stories and combined with a Freirean pedagogy (as in Catalyst Project's workshops) they can be quite useful. Some key political issues are treated so lightly they are effectively submerged: there is little international perspective beyond acknowledgement of the example set by the Zapatistas. While "war" is mentioned throughout the book, it is as often in the phrase "war against the poor (or immigrants, or working class)" rather than the actuality of missiles, bombs and torture. Anti-war activism is mostly treated as a pacifist opposition to all war rather than work to end the here-and-now devastation of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Mali, Chiapas and beyond. Perhaps underlying this weakness is the avoidance of settler colonialism in U.S. society, with the one telling exception of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's foreword. Anti-racist practice, no matter how passionate, is incomplete without it. One part of the book that would be extremely helpful is missing: images. Photos, posters and other graphics would have added much. Similarly, reproductions of flyers, news articles, pamphlets and other pieces of material history would lend a deeper dimension to the story. It is high time that movement authors and publishers take advantage of present opportunities to do this - as modeled, for example, by Nancy Kurshan's history of the struggle against super-max prisons, Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, which offers a rich web archive of PDFs, images, and video linked to the text. PM Press does provide an e-book version of Towards Collective Liberation as well as the paperback; beyond improving accessibility, this helps offset the lack of an index. Overall, in its many parts, the book is a valuable tool for activists in a variety of social justice movements to reflect on recent history and current practice, moving on our various paths Towards Collective Liberation.

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