1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org

Get down with
Seeds of Fire Camp 2008

July 20-26, 2008
@ the Highlander Center
in east Tennessee

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You are Seeds of Fire. Your experience, your goals, your dreams, and your hopes: that's the material we're working with. Using Popular Education, Research, Theater, Games, Art and collective wisdom we'll have fun while generating a new vision for the world we wish to see in the South and Appalachia, the United States, and the World!

Be our friend! www.myspace.com/seedsoffireprogram

What You're In For:
*Come learn how to "Upset the Set-Up"*
*History of the Juvenile Justice System*
*Nonviolence Training*
*Skills Building, Base Building, Strategic Planning and Visioning*
*Strategies and Tools for Stopping the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and the Miseducation of Youth in our Schools*
*Connections between the Pipeline to the World*
*Holistic Transformation and Alternatives to the System*

Plus: Field Trips, Talent Shows, Dances and so much more

When you leave the camp you don't leave the work.

We invite youth-led and youth-centered group organizing for social change in the South and Appalachia to send a team of three people (two youth age 13-18 and one adult ally) that would like to partner with Highlander, the Community Justice Network for Youth, and The Gathering for Justice to help train and organize with others in your community and your state to "Upset the Setup"

Apply by June 3rd!

Seeds of Fire Camp is a multiracial, multi-issue space committed to examining the world we live in.

We are:

Sharing skills and information to encourage young people to organize with others to improve their schools, communities and the world!

Making connections between our issues locally, regionally, nationally & globally.

Developing lasting relationships and keeping in touch.

Understanding ageism and adultism and its intersection with other forms of oppression and supporting adult allies working with young people.

Building capacity among groups of young leaders and adult allies in the South and Appalachia.

Having fun!

In the Spirit of hope, justice and time honored tradition, we confront racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and ageism at the roots. And we're in it for the long haul. Seeds of Fire is a crop of Southerners with a fresh vision. We are youth; we are young adults; we are intergenerational communities. We are daring Southern Appalachia, we are the determined Deep South; we are courageous immigrant communities; we are (extra) ordinary Southern families…we are the new South our ancestors dreamed of.

Seeds of Fire Camp takes place at the Highlander Center on a farm in east Tennessee. Seeds of Fire participants stay in dormitories at the center and meet and eat here for the week.

The camp consists of youth and adult ally tracks that will come together for meals and intergenerational programming. The ally track gives adults a rare chance to support and challenge each other, exploring how to best foster youth leadership.

Seeds of Fire isn’t just a camp! It’s the beginning of a long relationship between you, Highlander, and other folks interested in changing the world.

Apply today! There’s no application or attendance fee! You’ll come out of this week prepared to organize, train others and pass the fire.

APPLY TODAY!

Gather your team of three people from your organization or community (1 adult ally and 2 youth activists, or 3 youth activists).

To apply, please fill out our online application forms by June 3, 2008. Please submit one application per person, along with the team application.

• Organization Application
• Participant Application

If you have questions or need more information, give us a call: Elandria Williams 865-933-3443 ext. 244.

OUR CREW
Elandria Williams, Tufara Waller Muhammad, and Susan Williams are Highlander Center's Seeds of Fire staff. Seeds of Fire Camp's incredible faculty members range in age from teen to elder.

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