Workshop Work Week, W-7.5, Gets Even More Wonderful
Highlander’s fifth annual Witty & Wonderful, Wild & Wacky Workshop Work Week was a huge success, thanks to the fantastic group of organizers, activists, scholars, and students who came from Utah to western Mass and everywhere in between to engage with Highlander and its work. In the mornings, Highlander’s staff led workshops on our methodologies […]
Strength through Song at the Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute
The 2nd Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute brought cultural workers and groups from Nashville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Philadelphia to Highlander this June to explore how to incorporate culture, song, and art into organizing campaigns in their community. The Institute was framed with a focus on intersectionality and organizing across differences and included an […]
81st Homecoming
Highlander Selected as Three Rivers Market’s Nourshing Change Recipient for June
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 items. It will be a great chance to fund our current work for the month […]
Highlander Selected as Three Rivers Market's Nourshing Change Recipient for June
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 items. It will be a great chance to fund our current work for the month […]
Seeds of Fire Alumni Organizes for Education
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 to save his high school from closing. As a result of his efforts, students now […]
Southern Jam
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 the best ways to work together for progressive change in the region. The gathering centered […]
Extreme Extraction Summit
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, oil, fracking, uranium extraction, tar sands, industrial biomass, and their devastating effects on communities and […]
Standing with Steingraber
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 company’s plans to use its abandoned salt mines underneath the lake for storage of natural […]
Visits from Bonner Scholars and Emory & Henry
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 program through the Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, which provides around 1500 students at […]