Chris Crass

CHRIS CRASS "is the coordinator of the Catalyst Project. He has been engaged in left/anarchist politics for the past 18 years.  He participated in anti-war organizing during the Gulf War in 1991 and was heavily involved in struggles for Ethnic Studies and immigrant rights In Orange County, CA.  For six years he played a leadership role in San Francisco Food Not Bombs with a focus on building the anarchist movement nationally.  He was a co-coordinator of the Challenging White Supremacy Workshops from which the Catalyst Project emerged.  He was a co-founder of Colours of Resistance with Helen Luu and Pauline Hwang.  His essays on collective liberation politics,  anti-authoritarian leadership, organizing strategy and movement building have been published widely in Left Turn, Clamor and on ZNet and Infoshop.org.  He is a member of the anti-racist/anti-imperialist Heads Up Collective in the Bay Area that bridges organizing for economic and racial justice with global justice and anti-war struggles. Chris is also a Unitarian Universalist and lives with his comrades, including Natasha Janoski who is four, at Praxis House."