COME OUT AND USE THE POWER OF OUR NUMBERS TO STOP THE EVICTION OF RICHARD LIBRARY!

Movers removing books from Richard Library

VICTORY! Monteith Branch Library is Re-opened! 1 down, 3 to go! Build the New Civil Rights Movement – Save Dr. King’s Vision for Detroit We Demand Lincoln, Richard and Mark Twain Libraries be re-opened NOW  and Stop the Decimation of Our Neighborhoods and City! Defend Our Dignity! COME OUT AND USE THE POWER OF OUR…

VICTORY FOR THE UC BERKELEY LIBRARY OCCUPATION!

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  MEDIA RELEASE: The UC-Berkeley library occupiers won their demand to restore fully the library hoursto Fall 2011 levels and hire a full-time new librarian to permanently staff these hours. At about 7:30PM Saturday night, the administration signed a written agreement that fully met the occupation’s demands. The administration signed the following agreement: “1. On…

Join the UC-Berkeley Library Occupation!

UC Berkeley anthropology library occupation

NO CUTS TO THE UCB ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY OR ANY CAMPUS SERVICES! Our movement is fighting to win. We voted on demands and we intend to win them. Join the occupation of UC-Berkeley’s Anthropology Library! It’s in Rm. 230 of Kroeber Hall, at the intersection of Bancroft + College. The occupation of the Anthropology Library to…

VICTORY! Monteith Branch library will reopen next month!

BAMN protests to keep Lincoln Library open

VICTORY! Monteith Branch library will reopen next month! Build the New Civil Rights Movement – Save Dr. King’s Vision for Detroit There is Power in Our Numbers–Join BAMN Now is the time for students, young, old and in-between, from Mason, Persing, Nolan, the churches, block clubs, neighbors and everyone to organize and mobilize to keep…

Library Commissioners: RE-OPEN OUR LIBRARIES OR RESIGN!

Detroit Joe Louis Fist

Tuesday, January 17:  12 NOON Rally at the Main Library(Cass Side) 1:30 pm: Pack the Library Commission Meeting This Tuesday, January 17, at noon, we have an opportunity to drive forward our fight to victory. If we turn out a large crowd for our rally and fill up the Library Commission meeting room and assert our will, we…

Why we must mobilize to the January 19th UC Regents Meeting

Protest against Yudoff's fee hikes 11.2012

Our movement is fighting to win. We voted on demands and we intend to win them. Why we must mobilize to the January 19th UC Regents Meeting: Our enemies are relying on the month long Christmas break to have quelled our movement. They know that when we went home to our families, many of our…

BAMN Teacher Featured on Education Radio

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Yvette Felarca, Northern California Coordinator of BAMN and a middle school teacher in Berkeley was one of four teachers interviewed for a Education Radio program entitled “Teachers Fighting Back with Courage, Solidarity and Organizing.” She discusses the need to emphasize integration and equality for black, Latino/a, Native American and immigrant students in the fight for…

Detroit Library Defense Campaign Builds Momentum

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WE ARE WINNING!! BAMN members and community activists continue the fight to stop the closure of Detroit branch libraries. This is a fight to defend our neighborhoods and our dignity and stop the decimation of our city by building our power through mass organizing to increase our numbers and by carrying out the following tactic:…

Shut Down UC Regents Meeting Jan. 19th in UC Riverside!

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We Have Demands. We Intend to Win Them. This is our unfinished business with the UC regents: Thursday, January 19th at 8:00am at UC Riverside UC Riverside Highlander Union Building 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA Remove Chancellor Birgeneau and Chancellor Katehi! FREE SPEECH for students: amnesty for protesters, charge the police who brutalized protesters Reverse the fee hikes, cuts,…

All Out to Restore Affirmative Action!

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If you are for racial equality, these are court dates you must not miss. On February 13th in San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will review BAMN’s constitutional challenge to Prop 209 – the law that banned all consideration of race in college admissions in 1996, and led to a huge drop in Latino/a,…