Holiday Gifts at the Highlander Bookstore
Just in time for the holidays, Highlander’s bookstore is now featuring merchandise from the 75th Anniversary Celebration. Items for sale include: 75th Anniversary T-shirts – designed and printed by Liberation Ink. 75th Anniversary Tote Bags – natural canvas EveryDay Totes created by ECO BAGS. Each bag sports Highlander’s 75th anniversary logo in English and Spanish. […]
National Gathering on Criminalization of Youth
On November 17-19, three Highlander staff members participated in the 1st National Convention of The Gathering for Justice, founded two years ago by Harry Belafonte. Over 800 youth and adults travelled to Oakland, CA, for the Gathering, which focused on organizing and training young people to challenge the criminalization of youth and the school-to-prison pipeline. […]
Highlander at International Social Justice Forum
Tufara Waller Muhammad and the Minister of Culture from Ecuador at FILVEN 2007. On November 9-17, 2007, cultural organizer Tufara Waller Muhammad represented the Highlander Center at the 2007 Venezuelan International Book Fair (FILVEN 2007) in Caracas. Highlander was invited as a special guest to the Book Fair following the participation of Roraima Albornoz, Press […]
Highlander Supports Social Justice Festival
On October 4-6, Tufara Waller Muhammad, Highlander’s cultural organizer, helped facilitate a workshop on cultural organizing at the fourth annual State of the Nation Art and Performance Festival in Jackson, MS. This powerful gathering brought together artists, activists, and community residents from across Appalachia and the South for performances, workshops, and dialogue that explored the […]
Film on the Prison Industry in Appalachia – 11/13 @ UT
Up the Ridge, a film about the prison industry in Appalachia, will be shown at the University of Tennessee Library this Tuesday, 11/13, at 7:00 p.m. Click here for details.
Thoughts on Highlander’s 75th
Check out “Will Democracy Survive in the 21st Century? Why Progressive Leaders Need to Know About Cultural Organizing” a new blog entry on the Huffington Post by Judi Jennings, Executive Director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. The blog highlights Jennings’ analysis and notes from Highlander’s 75th Anniversary Gathering. To read the blog, click here.
Thoughts on Highlander's 75th
Check out “Will Democracy Survive in the 21st Century? Why Progressive Leaders Need to Know About Cultural Organizing” a new blog entry on the Huffington Post by Judi Jennings, Executive Director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. The blog highlights Jennings’ analysis and notes from Highlander’s 75th Anniversary Gathering. To read the blog, click here.
“Which Side Are You On?”
Guy Carawan’s recording of “Which Side Are You On” by Florence Reece is the song of the month on the Labor Notes website. To hear the song and to see background information and pictures about its origin in the bitter coal-mine strikes in Harlan County, KY, in the 1930s, click here.
"Which Side Are You On?"
Guy Carawan’s recording of “Which Side Are You On” by Florence Reece is the song of the month on the Labor Notes website. To hear the song and to see background information and pictures about its origin in the bitter coal-mine strikes in Harlan County, KY, in the 1930s, click here.
Articles about Highlander
The Fall 2007 issue of Race, Poverty, & the Environment, entitled “Educating for Equity,” contains several articles that will be interesting to friends of Highlander: An interview with Mónica Hernández (coordinator of Highlander’s Pueblos de Latinoamérica Program) about popular education and Highlander’s support for immigrant organizing. An interview with Pancho Arguelles (Colectivo Flatlander) about the […]