Middle school, high school and college students filled the court Monday, February 13, to demand that Latina/o, black and Native American students have an equal right to attend the University of California. “Proposition 209 has created a New Jim Crow regime in California, in which the state denies equal access to its best public universities…
All Out to Cincinnati on March 7th! On March 7th at 1pm in Cincinnati,Ohio the full panel of 17 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges will review their peers’ ruling that the ban on race-conscious admissions in Michigan is illegal and that affirmative action must be restored. The presence of hundreds of affirmative action supporters inside and…
Double Black, Latina/o, and Native American Student Enrollment in UC Restore Affirmative Action & Overturn Prop 209 9th Circuit Hearing on Prop 209: Monday, Feb. 13th, 8:30AM 9th Circuit Court of Appeals 95 – 7th St. (at Mission), S.F. (near Civic Center BART) California’s majority black, Latina/o, and Native American students are being systematically denied…
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…
BAMN Newsletter #2, 12/22/11 Topics: Court Hearings Set for Affirmative Action Lawsuits in MI & CA; Occupy Cal; Climate Change Court Hearings Set for Affirmative Action Lawsuits in MI & CA Hearing for lawsuit against Prop 209 (ban on affirmative action in California) scheduled at 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco February 13,…
Say No to the New Jim Crow! Realize Dr. King’s Dream in Michigan! Day of Action to Defend Affirmative Action Rally & March November 17 at 12Noon Gather on the UM Diag Increase Black, Latina/o, Native American and Other Underrepresented Minority Student Enrollment Now! In-state Tuition for Michigan’s Undocumented Students & Pass the DREAM Act…
Remove Chancellor Birgeneau! FREE SPEECH for students: amnesty for protesters, charge the police who brutalized protesters Reverse the fee hikes, cuts, and layoffs to at least their 2009 levels Increase underrepresented minority student enrollment: Restore affirmative action and overturn Prop 209 Make UCB a sanctuary campus for undocumented immigrants; Implement a UC-wide Dream Act Equal…
Eight amicus (“friend of the Court”) briefs have been filed in support of the BAMN legal challenge to Prop 2. Briefs were filed by the following parties: 1) The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, (2) Committee of Law Professors and Constitutional Historians, (3) California Social Science Researchers and Admissions Experts; (4) the cities of Oakland and San Francisco and the counties…
MAKE DR. KING’S DREAM REAL AT UC-BERKELEY AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA DAY OF ACTION: Overturn Prop 209 and Restore Affirmative Action! Thursday, November 3rd 10am – Forum: Affirmative Action 101 – First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way, 1 block west of Telegraph) 12pm – RALLY at Sproul Plaza (UCB), March at 1pm 7pm –…
Excerpts From the Brief Yesterday, BAMN’s legal team at Scheff, Washington & Driver filed the legal brief in defense of our victory last summer to overturn Prop 2 and restore affirmative action in Michigan. The brief was a response to the attempt by the opponents of affirmative action (lead by Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Scheutte) to reverse our…
