Highlander Homecoming & Apple Festival 2008 – 8/31/08
Join us on Labor Day Weekend, Sunday, August 31st, from 1:00-9:00 p.m. for the Highlander Homecoming and, a first this year, Apple Festival! Homecoming 2006 (click here for more pictures) Highlander is expanding with an 80 acre farm next door that has a beautiful apple orchard. We will be having hayrides and apple picking trips […]
View from the Hill #27 Now Online
View from the Hill #27 is now online. Articles include “Art and Activism: An Interview with Highlander’s Cultural Organizer,” “Southern Strategies – July 7-9,” “Upcoming: 9th Annual Seeds of Fire Youth Leadership Camp” “Virginia Immigrant People’s Coalition Protests ICE Raids,” and more… To read View from the Hill #27, click here. Back issues of View […]
Southern Strategies – July 7-9
On July 7-9, 23 people from 17 organizations/communities gathered at Highlander for continued focus on Southern Strategies. Last fall, Highlander had used the occasion of our 75th anniversary to bring southerners together to lift up needs, challenges and cutting edge organizing in the region, and to build on the momentum of the U.S. Social Forum. […]
Upcoming: 9th Annual Seeds of Fire Youth Leadership Camp
On July 20-26, Highlander will hold its ninth annual Seeds of Fire Youth Leadership Camp, a week-long training program for youth activists age 13-18 and their adult allies. This year’s camp will focus on education and juvenile justice issues. It will include information on the history of the education and juvenile justice systems, alternatives to […]
Guy and Candie Carawan at Common Ground on the Hill Festival
The Carroll County Times has published an article about longtime Highlander friends and former staff members Guy and Candie Carawan – “Duo Shares Their Passion for Human Rights at Common Ground On The Hill,” by Rachel Hare. The article focuses on Guy and Candie’s participation in the Common Ground on the Hill Festival, an annual […]
Appalachian Community Fund Video
Check out this great video about the Appalachian Community Fund. ACF is a publicly supported, non-profit grantmaking organization that supports grassroots organizing for social, economic, and environmental justice in Central Appalachia (East Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and West Virginia). The video captures the voices of ACF grantees and Board members talking about the problems […]
Art & Activism: An Interview with Highlander’s Cultural Organizer
The Community Arts Network Reading Room recently published an interview with Highlander’s cultural organizer, Tufara Waller Muhammad, about how artists can participate most effectively in social justice activism. Drawing on her experience as an artist, musician, and grassroots organizer, Tufara emphasizes that “Every organizer should be using art and culture as a strategy to help […]
Art & Activism: An Interview with Highlander's Cultural Organizer
The Community Arts Network Reading Room recently published an interview with Highlander’s cultural organizer, Tufara Waller Muhammad, about how artists can participate most effectively in social justice activism. Drawing on her experience as an artist, musician, and grassroots organizer, Tufara emphasizes that “Every organizer should be using art and culture as a strategy to help […]
“Appalachia, the Scapegoat for America’s Racism”
It was hard to ignore all the coverage of the Democratic primaries earlier this year that dismissed Appalachian voters as bigots and hillbillies. This view of Appalachia is challenged by Ada Smith, an Appalachian Media Institute youth producer and former Highlander intern, in an audio essay that aired on NPR’s Morning Edition on May 21st. […]
"Appalachia, the Scapegoat for America's Racism"
It was hard to ignore all the coverage of the Democratic primaries earlier this year that dismissed Appalachian voters as bigots and hillbillies. This view of Appalachia is challenged by Ada Smith, an Appalachian Media Institute youth producer and former Highlander intern, in an audio essay that aired on NPR’s Morning Edition on May 21st. […]