Practicing Liberation Workbook
Highlander is the Movement School
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Training the Next Generation of Movement Leaders
We are rooted in the U.S. South and Appalachia, and grounded in a 90-year practice of participatory research and popular education, incubating the movements that drive us from the world we inherited to the one we deserve.
How We Move
Trainings
We know movement education is mission-critical to address the issues of our time. That’s why we strive to collect, refine, and publish our training resources.
Workshops
Workshops build collective knowledge and power to inform organizing work on the ground. Sign up for an upcoming workshop, or explore our archive of recorded workshops.
Our Programming
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Seeds of Fire
With a focus on the power of youth-led organizing, Seeds of Fire provides on-the-ground support, as well as guidance, mentorship, political education, and skill-based training to the rising activists of today.
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Economics & Governance
Solidarity economies are rooted in the values of solidarity, cooperation, equity, democracy, sustainability, and pluralism. They expand community ownership, participatory democratic governance, and people power.
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Cultural Organizing
Our multi-day collaborative workshop brings together 170 pivotal cultural organizers to re-up strategies & strengthen frameworks that they can bring back to their communities.
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Septima Clark Learning Center
The home of Highlander’s library and archive, with collections and programming that weave together the layered history of southern liberation, through movement memory work.
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Children’s Justice Camp
Our camp offers a week-long, in-person session for youth ages 6-12. Here, at the historic Highland Center in the Great Smoky Mountains, young people mentor one another’s leadership, with transformative experiences in community, collaboration, and confidence-building that will last a lifetime.
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Electoral Justice
Highlander’s Electoral Justice programming, led by Denzel Caldwell, is supporting communities across the U.S. and global South in defending and protecting democracy this year.
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Our Years Of Movement
In 2023, you helped our radical visions come to life. See how.
Our Years Of Movement
In 2023, you helped our radical visions come to life. See how.
Fiscal Sponsorship Organizations
Our Bookstore
Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families are using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook