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,…
Watch BAMN’s presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) national conference in San Francisco December 8, 2011. Many Berkeley and Oakland high school and middle school students joined scientists for this important presentation. Don’t miss our earlier post with BAMN’s declaration on global warming. PART 1: KEYNOTE STATEMENT BY TONY GARD, Movement for Justice By…
Speak the Plain Truth about Climate Change to the People of America and the World * No More Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico! * Stop the North American KXL Pipeline! * No New Coal! * No Turn to Nuclear Power Plants! The environmental crisis lurches towards catastrophe The crisis of global warming is exceeding…
As of October 31, 2011 The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets several times a week at 7PM at Oscar Grant Plaza (formerly Frank Ogawa Plaza) at 14th + Broadway. Everyone who attends may debate, vote on, and introduce proposals to this mass body. 1. Political parties and politicians Occupy Oakland does not endorse any political…
Save the Date! Town Hall Meeting 2011 Conference of the American Geophysical Union December 8, 2011 San Francisco, CA If our political institutions cannot act on behalf of humanity in the face of the devastating impact the climate crisis is already having in the developing world, we must create an alternative leadership. To begin building…
Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight: Building the Movement for Public Education and Equality Do you want to build the movement to defend public education and fight racism, and you’re serious about winning? Do you want to increase underrepresented minority enrollment, restore affirmative action and overturn prop. 209 and pass CA DREAM Act 131 and…
A “business-as-usual” climate change policy guarantees that black, Latina/o, Asian, and indigenous peoples of the world will bear the full weight of the catastrophe. The following is a BAMN statement issued to the December 2010 conference of the American Geophysical Union. The science of climate change is in the grips of crisis. To defend the…
