Affirmative Action

On the morning of the Supreme Court’s announcement to hear BAMN’s challenge to state anti-affirmative-action bans, BAMN held press conferences in Detroit, MI, Berkeley CA, and Los Angeles CA welcoming the decision and calling on the new civil rights and immigrant rights movement to march on Washington April 10 for immigrant rights and on the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — March 25, 2013 United States Supreme Court Grants Review of Decision Striking Down Michigan’s Ban on Affirmative Action Case Can Overturn California’s Proposition 209 and All State Bans on Affirmative Action The United States Supreme Court today granted review of the Sixth Circuit’s decision striking down Michigan’s anti-affirmative action ballot proposal. [...]

BAMN is calling on the United States Supreme Court to grant review of the decision striking down Michigan’s anti-affirmative action initiative so that the Court can review and strike down California’s Proposition 209 and the identical laws in Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Washington. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, BAMN asked the Court [...]

The following Letter to the Editor was written in response to an editorial in the LA Times of Nov 30, 2012.  The editorial attacks the recent 6th Circuit decision which affirmed BAMN’s legal challenges and declared Michigan’s ban on affirmative action to be in violation of the 14th Amendment.  The LA Times claims to stand [...]

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The Winter Leadership Project The Winter Leadership Project Internship (WLP) is an invaluable youth leadership opportunity for young scholars and activists (middle school through college) sponsored by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant [...]

VICTORY! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS AGAIN LEGAL IN MICHIGAN! RALLY & MARCH Friday, December 7 Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Reinstate Affirmative Action Programs NOW at ALL Michigan Universities! Sign the Petition! On November 15th the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Proposition 2 unconstitutional in the case brought by BAMN (The Coalition to Defend [...]

Press Release 11/15/2012: BAMN HAILS SIXTH CIRCUIT DECISION STRIKING DOWN MICHIGAN’S BAN ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASE HEADED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT: BAMN to argue for overturn of California’s Prop 209, Michigan’s Prop 2, and similar anti-affirmative-action state ballot initiatives before High Court Sixth Circuit ruling 11/15/2012 (PDF) BAMN brief to Sixth Circuit 10/25/2011 (PDF) The entire [...]

Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment and Pass the Federal DREAM Act! Restore affirmative action! Make UCB a sanctuary campus! Save UCLA’s National Dream University! Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, White, Citizens & Immigrants — With and Without Papers — WE ARE ALL CALIFORNIANS! TUESDAY, OCT. 23: DAY OF ACTION TO DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PUBLIC [...]

  Michigan Affirmative Action Activists Rally to Support BOTH Affirmative Action and 10% Plan in University of Texas Admissions A contingent from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) will be attending oral arguments in Fisher v. Texas and then holding a press [...]

“The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (UEAALDF) defend, without reservations, the entire current University of Texas at Austin admissions plan. “The Ten Percent Plan [guaranteeing admission to the top 10 percent of [...]