From Highlander's Director
Words from Pam McMichael, Highlander's Director:
- May 2009 Update
What a beautiful and rainy Spring this has been at Highlander! Baby birds right outside the back window sing between mouthfuls of food, and a young lizard ventures from the porch as if to greet our guests. The hills, woods and pastures, and their inhabitants are alive with Spring and the great bounty-and work-of the land. We have geared up for important new goals on land preservation and sustainability education, and we are writing to invite you to be a part of this new effort. We hope you are inspired to support this work with your generosity. [read more . . .]
- "Community Organizing: A Balm for Tired Souls"; USA Service; 1/21/09. An article by Highlander Director Pam McMichael, guest blogging on USA Service, the official website of the national organizing call to ongoing service issued by President Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Day on the eve of his inauguration. In the article, Pam says in part:
Being a community organizer means being able to hold conflicting sentiments at the same time: grief for the many lives our society has thrown away in the gap between the promise of America and the reality of America; hope for the vision of what our society could be if based on values of fairness, justice and inclusivity; and courage to make that vision real.
- 2008 Year-End Letter
My dear friend and long time southern organizer Pat Hussain once said to me, "You know, to do this work you often carry grief in one pocket and hope in the other." Her words are with me a lot these days as we celebrate this incredible moment of hope, possibility and belief in 'yes we can,' while recognizing the serious challenges facing all of us in the months and years to come. . . . [read more]
- Highlights of 2008 Work and 2009 Plans
- 2006 Year-End Appeal
In the last year since I was named director, I am often asked, "What is your vision for Highlander?" It's a tough question, and an important one to talk about with friends like you... [read more]
- Learning to Act: Bridging the Legacy and Promise of Labor and Popular Education (Institute for Labor Studies and Research; Providence, Rhode Island; May 18, 2006)
It is good to be here also in these exciting times when we are seeing so many people in the streets for fair and just immigration. For too long we've been writing the word movement with a small m, and now we find ourselves in this exciting time of capital M movement, with all its challenges and tensions, and hopes and opportunities.... [read more]
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