Wild & Wonderful, Witty & Wacky Workshop Work Week!!
5/18/09 – Update: The Workshop Work Week is full, and we are not accepting any more applications. Watch View from the Hill and the Highlander website for additional volunteer opportunities. [Lea esta entrada de blog en español] Highlander Announces Our New Wild and Wonderful Witty and Wacky Workshop Work Week!! May 25-29, 2009 Start one […]
Highlander in the Mile-High City for Creating Change Workshops and House Party
Highlander workshops on popular education, cultural organizing and building a multilingual movement were big hits at the Task Force Academy for Leadership and Action, a special track within 21st National Gay and Lesbian Task Force annual conference, Creating Change, held January 28-Feb 1 in Denver. Paper quilt created by participants in a Highlander workshop on […]
Rockwood Institute’s Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders at Highlander
Highlander collaborated with The Rockwood Leadership Institute to bring Rockwood’s “Art of Leadership” training to the South for the first time on January 26-29. This 4-day residential training was attended by 24 emerging and established leaders from across the South and was led by Michael Bell and Maria Ramos-Chertok. The Rockwood training is designed to […]
Highlander Announces We Shall Overcome Fund Awards
Created to nurture grassroots efforts within African American communities to use art and activism for justice, the We Shall Overcome Fund supports organizing in the South that is at the nexus of culture and social change. Started in 1966 and housed at Highlander, the Fund provides small grants ($2,000 maximum) for projects that reflect a […]
Equal Voice Campaign Day of Action on the Hill
On February 12, 2009, one hundred and fifty families from 12 states traveled to Washington DC as part of the Equal Voice for America’s Families campaign to hand-deliver the National Family Platform directly to the offices of their Representatives. The platform identifies key issues affecting families and makes policy recommendations to rebuild the safety net […]
Interpreting for Social Justice – Highlander Workshop
Interpreter training workshop; Highlander, March 2008. March 27 – 29, 2009 New Market, Tennessee On March 27-29, 2009, Highlander will hold its fifteenth “Interpreting for Social Justice” workshop at its Workshop Center in New Market, TN. The workshop is designed for bilingual social justice activists who would like to learn more about interpreting and translating […]
Guy and Candie Carawan Honored as Civil Rights Pioneers
Guy and Candie Carawan — musicians, activists, and long-time Highlander staff members — have received extensive coverage in the Knoxville press recently as a result of being among those honored for their work in the Civil Rights Movement by the Knoxville Presidential Inauguration Celebration Committee. On February 2nd, Knoxville television station WVLT-TV aired “We Shall […]
The State of the Dream 2009: The Silent Depression
The State of the Dream 2009, by United for a Fair Economy, reveals that while the general economy is in a recession, people of color are experiencing a silent economic depression that, in terms of unemployment, equals or exceeds the Great Depression. Released on Martin Luther King Day, the report highlights the extreme economic inequality […]
Highlander Supports Jobs with Justice’s Campaign for a People’s Bailout
In December 2008, Highlander joined other members of East Tennessee Jobs with Justice in protesting the Wall Street bailout and calling for government action to provide emergency help to the victims of the economic crisis and to build a fair economy that works for all people. The demonstration was part of the Campaign for a […]
Highlander Supports Jobs with Justice's Campaign for a People's Bailout
In December 2008, Highlander joined other members of East Tennessee Jobs with Justice in protesting the Wall Street bailout and calling for government action to provide emergency help to the victims of the economic crisis and to build a fair economy that works for all people. The demonstration was part of the Campaign for a […]