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-- 75 years of working for justice --
Presented by Ash Grove Music and The Highlander Research and Education Center
Singing Out for Justice
A Celebratory Concert & Highlander Center Fundraiser
To make a donation online...
Honoring Guy Carawan, a founding member of the We Shall Overcome Fund and for his 50-plus years of service with the Highlander Center
WHEN: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 2:30 - 4:30 PM
WHERE: The Home and Garden of Jan Goodman & Jerry Manpearl
939 San Vicente Blvd., Santa Monica. (NW corner of Larkin)
FEATURING: Guy and Candie Carawan, Len Chandler, Ross Altman, The Get Lit Players, Betty Mae Fikes of the Freedom Singers, Bernie Pearl and special guest performers!
This concert will celebrate the musical tradition that Guy Carawan brought to Highlander as music director and cultural worker.
Since 1966, the Highlander Research and Education Center has administered the We Shall Overcome Fund, which receives royalties for the commercial use of the worldwide anthem for freedom and justice, "We Shall Overcome" and supports grassroots efforts at the nexus of culture and social change within southern African American communities. Guy Carawan set up that fund along with Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Dorothy Cotton and Faye Bellamy Powell.
General tickets are available for $35, with larger donations encouraged, to purchase tickets send a check to:
Highlander Center
Guy Carawan Concert
1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820
or call Jardana Peacock at 865-933-3443, ext 226.
To make a donation online...
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2010 Fall Popular Economics Institute
The Center for Popular Economics and Highlander Center invite you to join us for a 5-1/2 day Popular Economics Institute where we will explore the roots of the current economic crisis. Don't worry, we won't leave you in a fright - we will also look at concrete ways that people and communities are building a more just and sustainable economy.
Read the full article here, on our blog or visit the CPE website.
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Thank You Nina Reining!
After 32 years of managing the workshop center at the Highlander Center, Nina Reining has retired. We offer our deepest appreciation to Nina for her years of hard work and dedicated service to Highlander and movement people around the world.
We plan to celebrate Nina in multiple ways over the coming months, the first at Homecoming this September 5th. Learn more about how to participate here.
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- Job Announcement - Bookkeeper Part Time Position to Start Immediately Highlander is looking for a part-time bookkeeper. The position is approximately half time hourly and will work out of the Highlander office located in New Market. The work schedule is flexible. Typical hours required are 16 -24 per week. Position available immediately and applications will be taken and considered until a candidate is chosen. People of color and women are encouraged to apply. For more information call 865-933-3443, ext. 223, or view our blog. [6/22/10]
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- Need inspiration to make it through to spring? Take a look at Highlander’s bookstore that has great new social change items, Are you trying to understand all this economic mess? Try "Economics for Everyone" or "The ABC’s of the Economic Crisis". Want to hear stories about brave people working for serious change – look for the books "Something’s Rising: Appalachians fighting Mountaintop Removal" or "Teaching Rebellion:Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca" or the DVD “The Clinton 12” or, in English and Spanish, “Made in L.A.” For new popular education, fundraising, music and intergenerational resources...visit our online bookstore. You can download the catalog here and order form here. [1/17/10]
- Join Us in Revisiting 2009 with highlights and a summary of our programatic work. Nurturing and connecting grassroots people and groups working for transformative change is why Highlander exists, so let's start there... read more. [12/27/09]
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The Highlander Center is a residential popular education and research organization based on a 106-acre farm in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, twenty-five miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Since 1932, Highlander has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing social, environmental and economic problems facing the people of the South. Highlander sponsors educational programs and research into community problems, as well as a residential Workshop Center for social change organizations and workers active in the South and internationally. Generations of activists have come to Highlander to learn, teach, and prepare to participate in struggles for justice.
Highlander's work is rooted in the belief that in a truly just and democratic society the policies shaping political and economic life must be informed by equal concern for and participation by all people. Guided by this belief, we help communities that suffer from unfair government policies and big-business practices as they voice their concerns and join with others to form movements for change.
Over the course of its history, Highlander has played important roles in many major political movements, including the Southern labor movements of the 1930s, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s-60s, and the Appalachian people's movements of the 1970s-80s.
Because of our past accomplishments, many think of Highlander as a historical place where great movements were nurtured. But Highlander is more than its history - Highlander is an ongoing story of the people who continue to gather here today to tell their stories and join with others to fight for justice, peace, and fairness, not just for themselves, but for everyone.
Through this Web site, we would like to share information about Highlander's educational programs and the resources we provide to progressive social change activists, journalists, and academics. We'd also like to tell you the story of Highlander - about its history and the important struggles it continues to support today.
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