Community Literacy Journal

The Highlander Center’s 75th Anniversary Celebration is August 31-September 2nd in New Market, TN. The CLJ will be represented with an information table at cultural events and during the weekend’s Educational Institutes.

From Highlander’s About Us page:

The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was and is to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction. We help grassroots leaders create the tools necessary for building broad-based movements for change.

The founding principle and guiding philosophy of Highlander is that the answers to the problems facing society lie in the experiences of ordinary people. Those experiences, so often belittled and denigrated in our society, are the keys to grassroots power.

—

National Public Radio story. (September 2, 2007)

“Issues in Community Literacy” Panel at the 6th Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, October 4 - 6:

Laurie Gries
“Representation Issues in Literacy Campaigns: Enacting Civic Discourse with a Transnational Gaze”

Kathryn Johnson
“A Survivor Comes Forward: Arguing for Personal Stories of Gender and Power in the Headlines”

Michael Moore
“What Would a Feminist Community Literacy Look Like?”

From the project site: the Atwater Digital Literacy Project, a project of the Atwater Library, gets kids and community groups using creative web technologies (blogging, audio, video, digital photos) to find new ways to talk about things important to them, and to help them build their communities.

The Community Literacy Journal invites your photo art for future covers. Photo art and submission guidelines here.
(more…)