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Seeds of Fire
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SEEDS OF FIRE CAMP JULY 22-28th
Female
18 years old
New Market, Tennessee
United States
Last Login: 1/23/2009
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Seeds of Fire's Interests
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| General | *Youth Tent, parties, and hot workshops at the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 28th-July 2nd
*Highlander’s 75th Anniversary Celebration at Highlander on Aug. 31st-Sept.2nd
*New Leadership and Organizing Institute starting in fall 2007 at Highlander
*Twenty-Somethings Gathering this October at Highlander
Internships in Cultural Organizing, Multilingual Capacity Building, and Pueblos de Latinoamérica Programs. | | Music | Hot rhythms for our hot-hot dirty South movement! | | Heroes | Fierce Southern youth organizers and our phenomenal adult allies |
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Seeds of Fire's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Serious Relationships, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Occupation: | revolutionary |
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About me:
Seeds of Fire is a core program of the Highlander Research and Education Center, a popular education resource center in the heart of Appalachian Tennessee. Since 1932, Highlander has been on the cutting edge of mass social movements fighting for labor rights, civil rights, environmental justice, and international solidarity.
Highlander has supported the work of countless organizers, like Ms. Rosa Parks, Súper Barrio, Mr. Woody Guthrie, Rep. John Lewis and Ms. Hazel Dickens, to name a few. Highlander believes that a social justice movement depends on not just famous leaders, but committed, hard-working folks like you. Successful social movements of the 20th century were youth-led, yet since the 80s there have been decreasing numbers of young people in social change organizations. Bad schools, low-wage jobs, incarceration, no healthcare- our experiences of oppression reveal fundamental flaws in the US system of democracy. We suffer economic exploitation and we are increasingly the target of repressive law enforcement practices. Still, we’re not giving up.
Young people carry the spark of change. We have new ideas the world has never tried, and we have the passion and energy to come together and make our ideas real.
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Who I'd like to meet:
You are Seeds of Fire. Your experience, your goals, your dreams, and your hopes: that’s the material we’re working with to create Seeds of Fire Summer Camp 2007.
Using games, theater, and art, we’ll have fun while we generate a new vision for youth-positive intergenerational work in the South. We invite youth-led and youth-centered groups organizing for social change in the South and Appalachia to send a team of three people (three youth- ages 13-18, or two youth and an adult ally).
Apply by May 25!
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