Chris Crass
{{short description|American anarchist activist}}
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Chris Crass (born c. 1973{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/11/sfrally/ |work=Salon.com |title=We're here. We're not going anywhere |first=Katharine |last=Mieszkowski |date=April 11, 2006 |access-date=February 11, 2009 |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725232114/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/11/sfrally/ |url-status=dead }}) is an American anarchist, activist, and writer on topics of anti-racist and feminist organizing.
Political activism
In high school, Chris Crass's best friend introduced him to anarchist politics and punk rock.{{cite web|title=Let's Build Liberation: A Conversation with Chris Crass on Anti-Racism and Revolutionary Struggle|url=http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/books/collectiveliberation/interview.html|publisher=Kersplebedeb Press|access-date=23 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042627/http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/books/collectiveliberation/interview.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Crass attended San Francisco State University{{cite news|last=Dineen|first=Matt|title=An Interview with Chris Crass|url=http://www.towardfreedom.com/activism/515-an-interview-with-chris-crass|newspaper=Toward Freedom|date=July 25, 2005|access-date=August 23, 2013|archive-date=August 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830024153/https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/globalism/monkey-wrenching-the-globalization-gang/|url-status=live}} and was an active organizer in the area's Food Not Bombs chapter from 1993 to 2000.{{Cite book |last1=Parson |first1=Sean |title=Cooking up a revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification |date=2018 |language=en |isbn=978-1-5261-0811-1 |publisher=Manchester University Press |df=mdy-all |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2-5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36 }} In the 2000s and early 2010s, he was an organizer for immigrant rights.{{cite web|title=East TN group pushes for immigration reform|url=http://www.wbir.com/rss/article/277420/2/East-TN-group-pushes-for-immigration-reform|publisher=WBIR|date=June 17, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130823013046/http://www.wbir.com/rss/article/277420/2/East-TN-group-pushes-for-immigration-reform|archive-date=August 23, 2013}}
Personal life
Crass is also a Unitarian Universalist. He lives in Tennessee, with his partner and child.{{Cite web |url=https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/07/18/anarres-project-with-chris-crass-social-justice-and-hope-on-truthout/ |title=Anarres Project with Chris Crass: Social Justice and Hope on Truthout |date=July 18, 2019 |access-date=2020-10-13 |archive-date=2020-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014105928/https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/07/18/anarres-project-with-chris-crass-social-justice-and-hope-on-truthout/ |url-status=live }}
Selected works
- {{cite book|title=Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World|year=2003|publisher=City Lights Books|isbn=978-0-87286-420-7|pages=427–446|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9XGjh4eypcC&q=%22Chris%20Crass%22%20Globalize%20Liberation&pg=PT452|chapter=Looking to the Light of Freedom|access-date=2020-10-25}}
- {{cite book|title=Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings|year=2007|publisher=Pine Forge Press|isbn=978-1-4129-4107-5|pages=458–459|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbk6wWTLSdEC&q=%22Chris%20Crass%22&pg=PT482|chapter=Tools for White Guys Who are Working for Social Change|access-date=2020-10-25}}
- Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy (2013)
See also
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References
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Category:American Unitarian Universalists
Category:American anti-racism activists
Category:American male feminists
Category:Individualist feminists
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:American social justice activists
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