Homecoming 2015- “No Longer Erased: Lifting Up Racial and Gender Justice in Our Homes, Communities, and the Movement.”
Click here to register for Homecoming 2015 Program_FINAL< Downloadable program Mark your calendars for Highlander Homecoming, September 25-27, 2015! This year’s theme is “No Longer Erased: Lifting Up Racial and Gender Justice in Our Homes, Communities, and the Movement.” Join us as we explore racial justice and gender justice organizing in all […]
Homecoming 2015- "No Longer Erased: Lifting Up Racial and Gender Justice in Our Homes, Communities, and the Movement."
Click here to register for Homecoming 2015 Program_FINAL< Downloadable program Mark your calendars for Highlander Homecoming, September 25-27, 2015! This year’s theme is “No Longer Erased: Lifting Up Racial and Gender Justice in Our Homes, Communities, and the Movement.” Join us as we explore racial justice and gender justice organizing in all […]
Caravan of the Mutilated / La Caravana de los Mutilados June 12 6:30-9pm
There are large numbers people from Central America who, as part of their long journey in trying to immigrate to the United States, ride a train through Mexico nicknamed “The Beast.” These trains can be very dangerous and in trying to hop aboard many, many people have been injured and even lost limbs in an […]
Wacky Workshop Work Week 2015
Join us for the 7th Annual Wild & Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week A time for fun, education and service to Highlander for the long haul! May 26-30, 2015 Click here to apply. Applications are close as of 4-29-15 W.7 Photo 2014 Come to the mountains of east Tennessee and spend one […]
Highlander Fundraising House Party in Carrboro, NC Sept. 27 4-6pm
Maggie West, Charles Price, and Lucy Lewis are pleased to invite you to.. Celebrate and Support Highlander Center in an event called “Building the Movement n NC and the South, Now and for Generations to Come” Saturday, Sept. 27 4-6PM at the Pacificia Co-Housing Common House located at 141 Vibrurnum Way, Carrboro NC 27510 Special […]
Homecoming 2014 Schedule
Below is our schedule for Homecoming, which is a week away. Hope you can join us and can register through https://highlandercenter.org/spirit-freedom-summer-highlander-homecoming-september-19-21-2014/ Downloadable Online Schedule Homecoming 2014 Schedule – Time Grid< Printable Homecoming Schedule
Added Speakers for Homecoming 2014
The lineup for Highlander Homecoming keeps getting better! Jobs with Justice Executive Director Sarita Gupta and filmmaker/activist Felipe Vargas will be joining our opening plenary with Bob Moses; filmmaker Catherine Murphy will host a screening and discussion of her film Maestra about the Cuban Literacy Campaign; John Oliver Hodges will lead an author-activist discussion of […]
Highlander Remembers George Barrett
George E. Barrett, at a news conference this year, taking issue with Republican legislators on an autoworkers union issue. Credit:Erik Schelzig/Associated Press Here at Highlander, we’re remembering and deeply grateful for the life and work of George Barrett, who died last week at the age of 86. As an attorney, Barrett fought the case […]
Letter from Helen Lewis-90th Birthday Party at Highlander Sept 19
Highlander will kick off its Homecoming this year with a celebration of Helen Lewis’s 90th birthday here on the Hill at 7:00 PM on Friday, September 19! In a beautiful letter full of great stories and pictures, Helen is asking folks to don…ate to Highlander in lieu of sending presents for this milestone birthday. Check […]
Community Sing Featuring Bettie Mae Fikes at Homecoming 2014 Sept. 19-21
Our Community Sing honoring people in the movement who have passed on will feature SNCC Freedom Singer Bettie Mae Fikes. She is a native of Selma, AL and was a student leader in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. To learn more about Bettie, go to http://www.bettiefikes.com/index.php. Go to https://highlandercenter.org/spirit-freedom-summer-highlander-homecoming-september-19-21-2014/ to learn more and register for Homecoming.