Threads 2010: a Leadership and Organizing School

Dear Friends,

Highlander is now accepting applications for Threads 2010: a

Leadership and Organizing School. Threads is a multi-racial, intergenerational

leadership program designed to help groups in the South and Appalachia :

• strengthen grassroots community –based organizing

• build multi-racial and multi-issue relationships and analysis among participants

• increase capacity for intergenerational organizing

• connect to each other to build a stronger broad based movement for

social and economic justice

• develop skills, collective leadership and democratic participation for

long-term movement building

Threads 2010 will focus on economic justice, a system or set of values that

• prioritizes social welfare over profits

• is based on solidarity, mutualism and cooperation

• is equitable in all dimensions, including: race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender,

sexuality

• is sustainable

• ties economic and social/political democracy

For more information and application materials, contact:

Mónica Hernández at 865-933-3443 ext. 228

hernandez@highlandercenter.org, or go to

www.highlandercenter.org

APPLICATIONS DUE DECEMBER 31, 2009

THREADS 2010: Leadership and Organizing School

1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820, Phone: 865-933-3443, Fax: 865-933-3424, www.highlandercenter.org

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