Chris Crass

Granada Middle School represent!, La Serna HS, Fullerton Community, SF City College, SFSU

coordinator of the Catalyst Project

Praxis House, Heads Up collective, Catalyst Project (collectiveliberation.org), Colours of Resistance (colours.mahost.org), Against Patriarchy Men's Group, graduate of Food Not Bombs, member of the Whittier anarchist dynasty early 90's era

building movement for liberation, left/radical politics, anarchism, collective liberation organizing praxis, reading, writing, ro/co(romantic comedies), developing curriculum and embracing nerd-core, coffee and strategy discussions, beer and gossip, left/radical organizing history, study groups, loving my family and friends

Harry Potter series, Ella Baker & Black Freedom Movement, I've Got the Light of Freedom, Barbara Smith, bell hooks, N.Chomsky, Sweatshop Warriors, Outlaw Woman, Betita Martinez, H.Zinn, K.Marx, Haymarket Tradgedy, Free Women of Spain, P.Kivel, Black Feminist Thought, Nancy Naples, Henry Giroux, Pema Choudron, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, James Baldwin

Star Wars Trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Say Anything, Matrix Trilogy, Notting Hill, Oceans 11(Clooney), Fight Club, American History X, Malcolm X, Zoolander, Coen Bro, Love&Basketball, Godfather I&II, But I'm a Cheerleader, Professional, Bring It On, Reds, Norma Rae, When Harry Met Sally, Rushmore, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Hoffa, Joy Luck Club, Napolean Dynomite, Anchor Man

Avril Lavigne, REM, Eminem, Sleater Kinney, Moby, Gwen Stefani, Iron Maiden, Atari Teenage Riot, Chumbawamba, From Autumn To Ashes, Team Dresch, Erasure, Cure, Metallica, Sinead O'Connor, Conflict, Beatles, Madonna, Ani Difranco, Smiths, Pixies, Mirah

Friends, the Office, Freaks & Geeks, 6 Feet Under, Simpsons (god bless 'em), Twin Peaks (oh how I want so badly to get coffee w/Agent Cooper)), Sex and the City, South Park, Jackass

Sagittarius

I would like to be part of a vibrant left/radical movement that struggles to become a defining force in shaping the history of the United States towards liberatory politics of self-determination, anti-imperialism and empowered democratic practice. I would like to build formations that allow us to enage in political action, reflect collectively, study together, support one another and create dynamic cultue grounded in history, passion and love for one another.

I am fortunate and get to work with amazing people in the Catalyst Project and the Heads Up Collective. I live with wonderful people (including the cutest little kid named Natasha - who will bring balance to the force) at Praxis House and I am deeply grateful for the people in my life and all that we do to build community and possibility.

Other then that I'm first in line opening weekend for awesome movies, ready to drink coffee, read and write all day. Looking to find balance while embracing hybridity and complexity, trying to figure out how to be gentle and grounded while navigating fear, power inequality, and building community based on love. So, yeah, I watch a lot of movies. Have you seen 13 going on 30? I cried.

People who love romantic comedies and anti-imperialism. Yes. And people to build movement with? Yes. People who wanna build for collective liberation. People who are down for becoing Left/radical Jedi to bring down this Empire and unleash liberation. And fyi, I'm looking for anyone with a good photocopy hook-up for Catalyst Project.