Highlander Research & Education Center: Feed the movement Indiegogo Campaign!
The Highlander Research & Education Center Kitchen Campaign: Feed the Movement! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/highlander-research-education-center-feed-the-movement <To donate We are raising money for much needed, new kitchen equipment used in serving thousands of meals each year to community leaders and organizers from across the South, the nation and the world. This new equipment will help us cook our delicious […]
UALE Southern Women’s Worker School: August 14-17, 2014
Come join women from across the South and Appalachia, from labor unions and non-traditional worker organizing groups, to develop leadership skills and share strategies to strengthen worker organizing. Registration is closed as of 8-6-2014 Sessions could include: “News from the South” (Successes from worker movements in the South) Talking About Unions (“The Union Difference”) […]
UALE Southern Women's Worker School: August 14-17, 2014
Come join women from across the South and Appalachia, from labor unions and non-traditional worker organizing groups, to develop leadership skills and share strategies to strengthen worker organizing. Registration is closed as of 8-6-2014 Sessions could include: “News from the South” (Successes from worker movements in the South) Talking About Unions (“The Union Difference”) […]
We Shall Overcome Fund Deadline-June 1, 2014
“We Shall Overcome” served as the theme song of the Civil Rights Movement and is now a worldwide anthem for freedom and justice. Since 1966, the Highlander Research and Education Center has administered the We Shall Overcome Fund, which is generated by royalties from the commercial use of the song “We Shall Overcome.” Upcoming Deadline June […]
New Twitter Page
Highlander has a new official twitter! Please follow and tweet us at our new handle: @HREC1932. Website is https://twitter.com/HREC1932
Celebrating the life and legacy of Cecil Branstetter
We are thinking today of lawyer Cecil Branstetter, who passed away at the age of 93 on Wednesday. Branstetter was the lawyer who defended Highlander, Septima Clark, and Myles Horton against the state’s trumped-up charges of selling liquor without a license in response to Highlander’s work for racial integration, which ultimately led to the revocation […]
Job Announcement-Program Associate, Appalachian Transition Fellowship
Position Available Program Associate, Appalachian Transition Fellowship Overview of position: This staff position will provide administrative support to Highlander’s Education Team, which works together to plan, carry out and evaluate the movement and capacity building educational work of the Highlander Center, and in particular to our Appalachian Transition Fellowship Program. This is a 50% FTE […]
Playwriting and Directing Workshop with Steven Kent and Linda Parris-Bailey Aug. 2-4, 2014
August 2-4, 2014 Click here to apply for the Playwriting and Directing Workshop Join award-winning playwrights and directors—as well as experienced activists and workshop leaders—Steven Kent and Linda Parris-Bailey for three days of workshops to hone and strengthen your theatrical skills. From first developing an idea for a play or performance piece, to developing the […]
Workers Memorial Day 2014 in Knoxville, TN Apr 26 1PM
Place: Small Assembly Room, Knoxville City County Building, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, TN Time: 1PM EST This is Knoxville’s third annual high-visibility Workers Memorial Day event. Ever since the shocking deaths of John Womac and Solin Estrada-Jimenez on the Henley Street Bridge in 2011, Jobs with Justice has partnered with labor and community allies in […]
Upcoming Youth and Intergenerational Organizing Opportunities-2014 (Youth on the Move and Seeds of Fire)
2014 brings the Youth on the Move Event and Seeds of Fire Advisory Committee/Seeds of Fire Fund. For more information go to https://highlandercenter.org/programs/leadership-and-organizing/seeds-of-fire/ Seeds of Fire Advisory Committee: Applications due April 21 Seeds of Fire Fund: Applications due May 5 Youth on the Move Camp: Applications due June 1 GET INVOLVED Seeds of Fire Advisory […]