Affirmative Action

High school and college students rallied outside the courthouse on March 7th and then filled both the courtroom and an overflow room as BAMN attorney George Washington argued for the overturn of Prop 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan. On the occasion of the court proceedings, Black Agenda Radio interviewed both George Washington [...]

Michigan Students Travel to Cincinnati to Support Affirmative Action at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, a 15-judge en banc panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in their review of the 6th Circuit ruling last summer that Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan, is unconstitutional. George Washington, attorney for [...]

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 [...]