Identidad y Raza en la Comunidad Latina

Highlander Research and Education Center

19-21 de marzo 2010

New Market, Tennessee

Este es un taller interactivo y diseñado para que los latinos exploren el impacto que la raza y el racismo han tenido en Latinoamérica a través de la historia y en el presente. Los participantes tendrán un dialogo franco sobre la raza y la identidad racial en la comunidad latina utilizando un recuento histórico, un documental y dinámicas.

El costo del taller de 2 1/2 días es $75-$175, basado en lo que puede pagar, e incluye comida y alojamiento.

Adjunto se incluye el volante, una hoja de información y la forma de inscripción.

El taller es patrocinado por el Centro Highlander, CPC y COLA. Para más información, comuníquese con Mónica a hernandez@highlandercenter.org o con Ada a adavolkmer@colawnc.org.

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Race & Identity in the Latino Community

Highlander Research and Education Center

March 19-21, 2010

New Market, TN

This is an interactive workshop designed so Latinos can explore the impact race and racism has had in Latin America throughout history and in the present. Participants will have an honest dialogue about race and racial identity in the Latino community utilizing a historical account, a documentary, and experiential activities.

The fee for the 2 1/2 day workshop is sliding scale $75-$175, which includes meals and lodging.

The workshop is hosted by the Highlander Center, CPC and COLA. For more information contact Mónica at hernandez@highlandercenter.org or Ada at adavolkmer@colawnc.org.

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Highlander Farm/Land Internship Available

The Highlander Research and Education Center has an opening for a farm/land intern to work on our 186-acre farm in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee.

Highlander is a world-renowned organizing and leadership development center for grassroots activists in Appalachia and the South. Since its founding in 1932, Highlander has been in the forefront of social justice organizing, playing a key role in the labor movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the environmental justice movement, among others. Today, Highlander is still on the cutting edge of activism, and a leading regional and national resource for organizing across race and generations.

The intern’s primary responsibilities will include helping with the care of the apple orchard (in 2^nd year of conversion from conventional to organic) and organic garden. The internship is 2/3 physical labor and 1/3 educational activities including, greeting guests, helping to lead tours of Highlander’s farm, and assisting in workshops.

Highlander’s farm is located on in New Market, Tennessee, approximately 25 miles north and east of Knoxville. Our facilities include a workshop center with a meeting room, kitchen, and child-care center; a 32-bed dormitory; a library/resource center; six houses for staff and visitors; and a barn and other out-buildings. We also have a 400+-tree apple and peach orchard that has been cultivated for over 20 years.

The intern will work with Highlander’s Farm Manager, other members of the staff Building and Grounds Team and the Education Team. There will also be the opportunity to do independent study, learn about other aspects of Highlander’s work, and participate in life at Highlander.

Qualifications for the internship include:

• Ability and interest in doing physical labor.
• Experience working on a farm, with tractors and other farm equipment.
• Experience with fruit trees helpful, but not required.
• Commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice
• Ability to work well with a multi-racial, intergenerational staff and to interact with a wide range of people.
• Sense of humor.
• Driver’s license.

The farm internship will begin as soon as possible and last for 6-9 months. Housing is available, and interns are welcome to share meals prepared during Highlander workshops. However, these are not available on a regular basis, and interns are generally responsible for their own food. Internship pays a $200 stipend per week plus a small health insurance allowance. Interns are housed with up to two roommates in an intern house on the Highlander farm. Generally, Highlander requires a total of 30 flexible hours per week, with weekend work as an essential element.

To apply for the internship, please forward a letter of interest including the following information:

• Why do you want to intern at Highlander?
• What experience have you had working on a farm, in a garden and/or with fruit trees?
• How do you see your interests and the work of Highlander connecting?
• Do you have specific skills to offer?
• What do you feel you can learn here?
• Do you have your own transportation?

Please be sure to include your complete address, phone number, e-mail address and available start date so we can contact you about your application.

Please forward your letter of interest, your resume, and contact information (including phone numbers) for three references to:

Rob Reining
Operations Coordinator
1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820
Rob@highlandercenter.org

Announcing

Wild and Wonderful
Witty and Wacky
Workshop Work Week- Take 2
June 1- 5, 2010

“Transformative.” ”Changed my life.” “What a powerful community we built.” ”Definitely do it again.”

These are just a few of the words from the 33 people who came to Highlander’s first Wild and Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week. It was such a powerful time we are taking their advice and doing it again.

Come to the mountains of east Tennessee and spend one of the best starts to your summer ever with Highlander staff and people from around the country at W-7.2, our 2nd Wild and Wonderful, Witty and Wacky Workshop Work Week, June 1 – 5, 2010.

MORNINGS: Spend them in those renowned rocking chairs building on the idea of Highlander – workshops on popular education, organizing, movement building, and the history of social change and what all that can mean in your organizing and community work today.

AFTERNOONS: Spend the later hours of sunshine in service to the place of Highlander. As part of a team – and in a praxis that continues learning from each other through dialogue and educational exchange – prune in the orchard, cultivate in the garden, clear a hiking trail, plant trees ‘on the hill’, file in our library, or build a bench, for example. There will be volunteer jobs for all levels of skill and physical ability.

EVENINGS: As the sun prepares to set, we continue the fun. In the evenings, we’ll sing, share stories around a fire, and square dance with a caller and live band (lessons provided).

It’s a proven good ol’ Highlander throw-down that will start with supper at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, June 1, and conclude with lunch at noon on Saturday, June 5.

Cost: Sliding scale $350-500. Some partial scholarships available.

How to apply:

• Online application form
• Download Application (PDF)

• Online payment form ($350-$500. Enter “Workshop Work Week” in the “Purpose” box)
• Send a check marked “Workshop Work Week” to Highlander – 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820.

Please complete an application form before paying. If you are applying for a scholarship, please call Highlander first: 865-933-3443

For more information, contact Highlander at hrec (at) highlandercenter.org or 865-933-3443.

New Guidelines for applying to the We Shall Overcome Fund

Beginning with the January 15, 2010, deadline some new changes will be implemented in order to make applying to the We Shall Overcome Fund easier and more cost effective for applicants. Now, you only need to submit one complete copy of your application in order to apply to the Fund, and you may also send your application in via e-mail to Kristi Coleman, WSOF Administrator, at coleman@highlandercenter.org.

You must still include the application form, a description of your project, a budget, and three signed reference letters from people who are familiar with your work. Also, whether you use regular mail or e-mail, the application and all supporting documents must be attached and submitted in one packet or e-mail, and everything must be in our office by the January 15th deadline. Highlander is not responsible for late or lost submissions or technical problems that result in late or lost submissions.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kristi at 865-933-3443 ext 221 or coleman@highlandercenter.org

Greetings & Gratitudes

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.

Action(s) Alert

Let’s Build a U.S. for All of Us: No Room for Racism, www.usforallofus.org, is a national call to action and a growing network of white people taking responsibility to do our work to counter the racism we see, hear and feel in strategies and tactics of the nation’s right wing and some in the media.

The initiative seeks to build inclusive and just democracy to strengthen the United States’ capacity to operate from a place of love, equity and justice and engage other white people across the country in publicly standing against the heightened and ongoing racism taking place nationally.

As the right once again mobilizes white people through fear, race-baiting, and white supremacy, we see a national anti-racist strategy grounded in vision of a racial and economic justice and solidarity with people of color led movements as a critical contribution. We believe that this effort, working locally, regionally and nationally can make a significant contribution towards our goals of collective liberation and a more just and inclusive democracy in this country.

We hope you will get involved and help spread the word! We ask you go to the website www.usforallofus.org to sign the collective statement and check out actions you can take to get involved in your community and with this network. People of all races and cultures who support this effort are invited to sign.

As we have developed this effort, white people involved have reached out to organizers of color in our communities and organizations and have gotten strong feedback that this initiative is needed as well as important suggestions about strategy and messaging.  We continue to welcome feedback about how this effort can strengthen multi-racial efforts for justice.

The Highlander Center has played a leading role in this effort, in collaboration with people and groups all over the country. Please note those organizations and people in the About section on www.usforallofus.org/about .

Let’s Build A U.S. for All of Us – isn’t it about time?