Highlander Research and Education Center

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View from the Hill #35 now online with articles on $10k New Donor Match Report; How We Can Help Haiti; Bilingual Interpreter Job Opening; Sistah Sundays; and more. To read past issues of View, click here. [2/3/10]

Two important new articles about Appalachia: " A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Washington Post) and "What Happens When You Don't Own the Land" by Chuck Shuford (Daily Yonder). Read more here. [7/3/09]

"Building Immigrant Leaders in the South," the final report from Highlander's immigrant leadership insitute (INDELI). This report describes and evaluates INDELI, provides feedback from participants and offers some recommendations and best practices for those wishing to implement similar programs. [PDF, 4.6MB] [5/27/09]

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-- 75 years of working for justice --


  • 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]
  • Highlander Enrolling for Threads 2010 Highlander is still accepting applications for Threads 2010, a multi-racial, intergenerational leadership program for Southern and Appalachian groups. Threads 2010 will focus on economic justice. New deadline: January 29, 2010. For more information, click here... [1/16/10]

    • Highlander todavía está aceptando solicitudes para el haga clic aqui... [1/16/10]

  • Year-End Greetings & Gratitudes and An Action Alert The Highlander Center expresses our deepest appreciation to our many friends across the South, country and world. We wish you peace, joy and health in this new year of work for justice. Your generosity of resources, time and talent made so much great work possible this year, the highlights and summaries of which you can see on our blog, here. A resounding THANK YOU!!! If you have not given yet there is still time and new donors double their gift! Please support the work of Highlander by donating securely here. For Action Alert, Read on... [12/28/09]
  • 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]
  • Highlander Announces Interpreter Job Opening Highlander Research and Education Center has worked for 77 years in the southeastern United States to promote progressive social change. As the demographics of our region dramatically shifted due to immigration, we began to work more intensively with immigrant and refugee communities and to build cross-racial, multicultural alliances as part of our ongoing work with people of color and low income constituencies. Position is based at Highlander in New Market, TN, about 20 miles from Knoxville. Applicants who are interested in this position must be able to live in the area and be prepared to make a three year commitment. Position involves travel. Read on to apply.[12/5/09]

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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