Hi. 2 weeks ago I sent you a press release of "We Shall Overcome", an Ash Grove/Highlander co-production on Saturday, October 23., honoring Guy Carawan, Highlander's music director, the man most responsible for making 'We shall Overcome' anthem of the Civil Rights Movement
The Highlander Center is where Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. James Lawson and thousands of others studied and trained for non-violent civil disobedience. Proceeds go to Highlander's We Shall Overcome Fund, which serves African-American grass roots cultural centers throughout the South. Below is a description of today's Highlander, founded in 1932 to bring together Black and white workers in learning to work together to fight racism and the deepening great depression. Today, it's mission has only expanded, as has its need.. The attached presents a program of wonderful, appropriate artists working together in honoring Guy, Highlander and their great cause. If you don't get attachments, log on to www.ashgrovemusic.com Hope to see you there. And please pass this on to friends. Ed Pearl http://www.highlandercenter.org/about.asp Highlander Research and Education Center 1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424, e-mail: [email protected] Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help create spaces -- at Highlander and in local communities -- where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that work for justice, equality and sustainability in their own communities and that join with others to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental 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. Today, that philosophy is reflected in the educational programs and services offered by the 21st-century Highlander Center. Highlander serves Appalachia and the South with programs designed to build strong and successful social-change activism and community organizing led by the people who suffer most from the injustices of society. Highlander helps activists to become more effective community educators and organizers, informed about the important issues driving conditions in communities today. Strategic Plan - 2007-2011 New Initiatives to Strengthen Organizing and Movement Building in Appalachia and the South Highlander has recently completed a new five-year strategic plan that charts new initiatives to strengthen and expand organizing in the South. The plan responds to the region's changing demographics, the need to develop new leadership for social change, and the need to build bridges across differences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age. Two key programmatic goals will frame Highlander's work for the next five years: a.. Fostering the development, leadership, and increased capacity of progressive grassroots groups in marginalized communities. b.. Building authentic multi-issue and cross-constituency relationships and networks capable of advancing movement building. Efforts to achieve these goals will include the following: a.. Developing a new multi-racial, intergenerational organizing and leadership training institute that will include groups from the Deep South, Appalachia, and immigrant communities across the region. b.. Broadening Highlander's immigrant leadership development program to include immigrants of African, Asian, Asian Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern descent as well as Latino immigrants. c.. Expanding Highlander's youth leadership program to include a specific focus on activists and leaders in their 20s, and to strengthen intergenerational and cross-generational organizing. Other elements of the plan include strengthening efforts to be good stewards of Highlander's land and facilities, and using the 75th anniversary for education, celebration, and inspiration. 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