1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org

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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.

We accomplish our purposes in a variety of ways.

• Residential workshops and educational training sessions at our center in New Market, Tennessee, bring together representatives of communities facing specific struggles throughout the region.
• Our library and audiovisual resource center are available to individuals and groups wanting information about Highlander's history or about current social change issues and strategies.
• Through our participatory research and cultural program, we affirm and document the knowledge, concerns, and struggles of the people with whom we work.
• Highlander staff members also develop and conduct workshops across the region, link communities grappling with common issues, and provide other education assistance in the field.
• Finally, through its youth, internship and other programs, Highlander develops leadership within communities so that those who participate go on to share with others and to multiply what they have learned.

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