75 years of the Highlander Research and Education Center: You Got to Move

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, 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

AND DON'T MISS...

Fundraising Houseparty in Celebration of 75 Years of Highlander
Friday, August 22nd, 6-8:30 PM
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant St. @23rd in San Francisco
RSVP by 8/15 to newman@highlandercenter.org

for more information about the film showing or to RSVP contact center@politicaleducation.org or 415-431-1918

If you would like childcare, please let us know by August 15th.

Study and Struggle is a Catalyst Project political education series designed to bring together left activists, organizers, and intellectuals in a non-sectarian, movement building space to help develop political theory, vision and strategy. 

The Center for Political Education is dedicated to building strong movements and the left through education, analysis, theory, dialogue and activism.