Towards collective liberation : anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis, and movement building strategy / Chris Crass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crass, Chris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; From Collective Refusal to Collective Liberation: An Introduction; Towards Collective Liberation: What I Believe; Section I "While Learning from the Past, We Work to Create a New World": Building the Anarchist Left; A New World in Our Hearts: Anarchism and the Need for Dynamic and Visionary Left Politics; Food Not Bombs and the Building of a Grassroots Anarchist Left in the 1990's; Section II "We Make the Road by Walking": Developing Anti-Racist Feminist Practice

Going to Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections on Challenging Male Supremacy "By All Means, Keep Moving": Towards Anti-Racist Politics and Practice; Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Help Further Feminist Revolution; Section III "Because Good Ideas Are Not Enough": Lessons for Vision- Based, Strategic, Liberation Organizing Praxis; Looking to the Light of Freedom: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Thoughts on Anarchist Organizing; "But We Don't Have Leaders": Leadership Development and Anarchist Organizing

Section IV "Love in Our Hearts and Eyes on the Prize": Lessons from Anti-Racist Organizing for Collective Liberation What We Mean by White Anti-Racist Organizing: Catalyst Project's Strategy; Strategic Opportunities: White Anti-Racist Organizing and Building Left Organization and Movement: An Interview with the Heads Up Collective; "A Struggle for Our Lives": Anti-Racist Organizing in White Rural and Working-Class Communities: An Interview with the Rural Organizing Project in Oregon

Building Liberatory Power: Anti-Racist Queer Organizing in the South: An Interview with Louisville Kentucky's Fairness Campaign Leading with Our Vision: Anti-Racist Organizing in the Economic Justice Upsurge in Wisconsin, the Occupy Movement, and Beyond: An Interview with the Groundwork Collective; From a Place of Love: Catalyst Project and the Strategy of Collective Liberation Leadership in White Communities: An Interview with Catalyst Project; Section V Conclusion; We Can Do This: Key Lessons for More Effective and Healthy Liberation Praxis; Author Bio; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-60486-849-X

OCLC:

831119150