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Pop. Ed. Training | You Got to Move | 75th Anniversary Party

The Catalyst Project and the Center for Political Education present... A Study and Struggle Event

Film Showing and Bay Area Celebration of 75 Years of the Highlander Research and Education Center: You Got to Move

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 - 7 PM
San Francisco Friends Meetinghouse
65 9th St. between Market and Mission
wheelchair accessible

Join us in celebrating the Highlander Research and Education Center, as we learn from their 75 years of political education and movement building in the South. Highlander served as a training grounds for two of the biggest mass social movements in U.S. history:

• In the 1930s, Highlander defiantly broke segregation laws and held integrated workshops for Black and white union organizers who helped build the labor movement that won the New Deal reforms during the Great Depression.
• In the 1950s and 60s, Highlander played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, including launching the Citizenship Schools, training young organizers in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and contributing to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Highlander continues to be a leader in the struggle for multiracial working class organizing in the South, including immigrant worker rights.

You Got to Move is an award-winning documentary by Lucie Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver. It follows people from communities in the Southern United States through their journeys of becoming involved in and inspired by social change. The film's centerpiece is Highlander, which intersects with each of the lives chronicled in this powerful and engaging documentary. You Got to Move takes its name from a spiritual and features folk, country and gospel music from the Southern U.S.

Following the screening will be a conversation with Director Lucie Phenix; Highlander staff members Anasa Troutman and Pam McMichael; and movement elders Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez and Clayborne Carson to reflect on the film and Highlander's history, and draw out lessons for today.

$10 donation requested (this is a fundraiser for the Highlander Center). No one turned away for lack of funds.

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