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Knoxville’s Community Food Co-Op, Three Rivers Market selected Highlander as their Nourshing Change recipient for June. The purpose of Nourishing Change is to support actual change in the community by donating spare change at the register when you buy your…
Jewel Bush has written a wonderful article for Uptown Messenger about Myron Miller, a teenager who attended Highlander’s Seeds of Fire camp and has since put the skills he learned there to good use organizing his community in an attempt…
In March, Highlander hosted the Southern Jam in collaboration with the Emerging ChangeMakers Network, YES!, Grassroots Democracy, and Southern Partners Fund. The Jam brought together 30 activists, organizers, leaders, and thinkers ages 20 to 43 from across the South to strategize about…
Earlier this year, Highlander Education Team members Elandria Williams and Susan Williams facilitated an Extreme Extraction Summit in upstate New York. The summit brought together 70 activists from groups across the country (including Alaska!) who are organizing to fight coal,…
Highlander stands in solidarity and support with biologist Sandra Steingraber and other activists in Watkins Glen, New York, who served 10-day jail terms after they blocked the entrance to Inergy LP’s property at Seneca Lake. The activists were protesting the…
Highlander has recently hosted a number of university groups, including the Bonner Scholars from Carson-Newman College, who came to Highlander for their Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bonner Scholars are part of a…
The deadline for applications to the next cycle of the We Shall Overcome Fund is June 1, 2013. The We Shall Overcome Fund was begun in 1966, and it uses royalties from the song to support projects that use art…
Join Highlander at a fundraising house party with hors d’oeuvres to celebrate eight decades of Highlander’s legacy for justice and support the critical work of today and in the future.
Mark Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22 on your calendars for Highlander’s Homecoming weekend! Like last year’s 80th anniversary celebration, this weekend will be full of plenaries and dialogue to spark your thinking, cultural opportunities to inspire your spirit,…
As one part of analyzing the long term effects of Highlander’s work, Highlander is conducting a 13-question through Survey Monkey entitled “2013 Highlander Education Impact Survey.” If you have received a link to this survey, please take a few minutes…
