Chris Crass  Chris Crass (born c. 1973) is an American social justice activist and writer. He has worked to build working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. 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. His book "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy" was published in 2013. Crass has written widely on anti-racism, men working against patriarchy, anti-authoritarian leadership and movement strategy. His writings have appeared in "Left Turn", "Clamor", "Onward" and "HeartattaCk". Many of his essays are on the 'Colours of Resistance' website. In May 2000, Kersplebedeb Press published "Collective Liberation on My Mind", a short collection of some of these writings. He has been published in the following anthologies: "Globalize Liberation" edited by David Solnit; "Race, Ethnicity and Gender" edited by Joseph Healey and Eileen O'Brien; the "Global Activist Manual" edited by Laura Raymond and Mike Prokosch; "On the Road to Healing: An Anthology for Men Ending Sexism" edited by Basil Shadid, and "Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power" edited by Shira Tarrant. His essay "Voltairine de Cleyre, the Anarchist Tradition and the Political Challenge" was translated into French and published in the book "Le mariage est une mauvaise action". His essay "Occupy Opportunities for Collective Liberation - Catalyst Project’s Anti-Racist Organizing Strategy" on the Occupy Movement is featured in the "Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racist Organizing to Build the 99% Movement". His essays have been translated into half a dozen languages, and taught in hundreds of classrooms. In 2013 he published his book "Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy", reviewed by "The Feminist Wire" and "FORsooth Newspaper". Crass attended San Francisco State University and throughout most of the 1990s, he was an active member of Food Not Bombs in Whittier and San Francisco, California. Crass helped organize the 1995 Food Not Bombs International Gathering in San Francisco and the 1998 West Coast Regional Gathering. During this time, the San Francisco Food Not Bombs played a leading role in supporting the formation of new Food Not Bombs groups around the world.