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Current & Past Issues

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  • #25; April 22, 2008
    Transitions: A Young Adult Leadership Gathering; Interpreter Training Workshop; March 13-15; Highlander Supports El Foro Latino 2008; Rev. James Lawson and Nashville Students Visit Highlander; Coal River Mountain Watch on Highlander's 75th Anniversary Gathering; Immokalee Workers Launch National Petition Drive; National Organizers Alliance Gathering - Registration and Scholarships; Data from Highlander's Anemometer Tower

  • #24, February 27, 2008
    Special Remembrance - Rev. James Orange; Upcoming Highlander Workshops; New Materials at the Highlander Bookstore!; Youth and Intergenerational Workshop at Appalachian Studies Conference; Help Nominate Pete Seeger for a Nobel Peace Prize; New Study on Racial Bias in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis; Guy and Candie Carawan at the Ash Grove Reunion; Highlander and Martin Luther King Day; National Immigrant Rights Conference

  • Highlander Pays Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King. [January 21, 2008]

  • #23, December 20, 2007
    Holiday Greetings from Highlander, Highlander Supports Southeast Immigrant Rights Network, Highlander Provides Interpretation for School of the Americas Vigil, Highlander Coordinates Local Justice Schools for TIRRC, We Shall Overcome Fund Deadline Approaching!, Photographs from Highlander's History Online, How Are You Connected to Mountaintop Removal?

  • #22, November 30, 2007
    Support Social Justice - Add Highlander to Your Gift List!; Holiday Shopping Opportunity! - 75th Anniversary Merchandise Available Online; Highlander Supports National Gathering on the Criminalization of Youth; Highlander Staff Participate in Social Justice Forum in Venezuela; Highlander and the We Shall Overcome Fund Support State of the Nation Festival; Highlander Explores Installing a Windmill to Generate Electricity; Pete Seeger on Highlander's 75th Anniversary; Press and Online Coverage of Highlander's Work

  • Day of Action to Free Burma - October 6, 2007

  • #21; September 9, 2007
    75th Anniversary Celebration!; Press Coverage of Highlander's 75th Anniversary

  • #20; August 27, 2007
    Countdown to the 75th!; Full Program for the 75th Anniversary Celebration Now Online!; Speakers for the Opening Plenary; Directors' Conversation; Blogging the 75th; Highlander Myspace & Facebook Pages; A New Play about Lillian Johnson & the Founding of Highlander; Other Highlander Activities

  • #19; August 3, 2007 - 75th Anniversary Update
    Register Today for the 75th Anniversary Celebration!; 75th Anniversary Celebration Program; Join the 75th Anniversary Circle of Support and Have an Organizational Table at the Celebration

  • #18; June 25, 2007
    Highlander Workshops at the US Social Forum; Highlander Staff Member Elandria Williams at the Take Back America Conference; Powerful Documentary on Immigration at the U.S. Social Forum; Highlander Picketed by Children's Justice Camp; Register Online for Highlander's 75th Anniversary Celebration!.

  • #17; May 31, 2007 - 75th Anniversary Update
    75th Anniversary Celebration; August 31-September 2, 2007; Educational Institutes; Benefit Concert - featuring Ani DiFranco, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and more!; Travel & Lodging; Support Highlander's 75th Anniversary; Share Your Highlander Story

  • #16; May 1, 2007
    Save the Date! - Highlander's 75th Anniversary Celebration; New Initiatives to Strengthen Organizing and Movement Building; Support the United Mine Workers Campaign for Justice at Peabody Mines; Interpreting for Social Justice Workshops in Mississippi and at Highlander; Highlander Staff Trains Facilitators for National Student Conference

  • #15; February 27, 2007 - Special Issue
    New Staff at Highlander

  • #14; December 19 2006
    Save the Date! - Highlander's 75th Anniversary Celebration; Support Highlander with an Online Contribution; New Five-Year Strategic Plan Approved by Highlander's Board; Highlander Supports National Youth Training Institute; Immigrant Leadership Development Institute Graduation; Highlander Bookstore Now Online!

  • #13; October 30, 2006
    Highlander Collaborates with Regional Groups on Training Immigrant Leaders; MLCB Program Supports Immigrant Community Fighting Wal-Mart; Cultural Workshop; Sept. 1-2, 2006; New Resource Available on Latino Immigration in the South; UAW Region 8 Adds Myles Horton to Activist Hall of Fame; Highlander Homecoming; Sept. 3, 2006

  • #12 - August 25, 2006 - Special Issue
    A Report on the Emergency National Border Tour and links to U.S.-Mexico Border Resources (also available on our Immigration Issues page)

  • #11; July 31, 2006
    The Young and the Restless, Highlander’s Youth Program, July 23-30, 2006; The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development at Highlander, July 18-21, 2006; Another South is Possible, Southeast Social Forum; Emergency National Border Tour; Congress Renews Voting Rights Act; Upcoming Workshop: Interpreting for Social Justice, Aug 4-6, 2006; Thanks to Peter Yarrow and New York Friends; Homecoming, September 3, 2006

  • #10; June 9, 2006
    The Southeast Social Forum: June 16-18, 2006; Emergency National Border Tour: June 15-18, 2006; Upcoming Youth Gatherings: July 23-30, 2006; Interpreting for Social Justice: August 4-6, 2006; Training for Youth Activists on Immigration Issues; Update on Immigration Reform Legislation; HREC Director Gives Keynote at Labor Studies Institute; Support Highlander with an Online Contribution

  • #9 - May 5, 2006 (double issue)
    Building a Youth Movement for Fair Immigration Reform; May 1st - A Day without Immigrants; Highlander Supports the Immigrant Rights Movement in the South: Workshop on the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act: Workshops on the Lessons from Katrina: Highlander Social Change Workshop; San Francisco Benefit for Highlander; Wheelchair Lift Installed at the Workshop Center; Volunteer Gardening Days at Highlander

  • #8 - March 2, 2006
    Ensuring Faith in Our Democracy: Renewing and Restoring the Voting Rights Act; Update on Federal Immigration Legislation; "No Human Being is Illegal" - A Community Rally for Human/Immigrant Rights; Interpreting for Social Justice; Highlander Social Change Workshops

  • #7 - January 31, 2006
    Action Alert: Anti-Immigrant Legislation in Congress; Highlander Supports Young Organizers in the Finding Our Folk Tour; Workshop Center Upgrades and Repairs; Interpreting For Social Justice; February 10-12 and May 5-7, 2006; Highlander Social Change Workshops; March 17-19 and Oct. 13-15, 2006

  • #6 - December 21, 2005
    Anti-Immigrant Legislation Pending in Congress; Highlander Supports Gulf Coast Organizing Efforts; Youth Organizer Training in California and Mississippi; 50th Anniversary Montgomery Bus Boycott Conference; Highlander Social Change Workshops; March 17-19 and Oct. 13-15, 2006; Support Highlander with an Online Contribution

  • #5 - November 23, 2005
    Pam McMichael Hired as Highlander's Director; A Report on the Gulf Coast Justice & Solidarity Tour; A Report on the Nashville Public Library Conference on Highlander's History; Upcoming Workshop on the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act; Repairs and Accessibility Upgrades to Highlander's Workshop Center

  • #4 - October 31, 2005
    Pupils, Prisons and Priorities - Strategic Research Workshop Held at Highlander; Gulf Coast Environmental, Racial, Social & Economic Justice & Solidarity Tour; Washington, DC, Memorial Service for Rosa Parks; Highlander House Parties in San Francisco & Boston

  • Highlander's Tribute to Rosa Parks - 10/25/05 (links to a Web page on our site)

  • #3 - September 29, 2005
    Cultural Workers Workshop; Immigration Workshop; We Shall Overcome Fund Annual Meeting Held; Prison, Pupils, and Priorities - A community Strategic Training Program; Congratulations to the Koch Food Workers!

  • #2 - September 12, 2005
    Special Edition on the Katrina Tragedy

  • #1 - August 25, 2005
    Introducing "View from the Hill"; Emergency Meeting on Anti-Immigrant Organizing; Introducing Roberto Tijerina, Coordinator of Highlander's Multilingual Capacity Building Program; Highlander Homecoming, September 4th

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