Occupy Movement

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:00-9:00PM Room 136 Barrows Hall, UC-Berkeley Keynote Speaker: Shanta Driver BAMN National Chair, Immigration & Civil Rights Attorney Replace partial probationary status with full citizenship rights for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, [...]

“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 [...]

Justice for Occupy Cal Protesters! Public Tribunal: “Putting the UCB Administration and Privatization ON TRIAL” This Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 6:00pm in the Tan Oak Room (4th Floor, MLK Student Union) Video record of Tribunal: A year ago, students and community members made history as part of Occupy Cal, standing up for public education and [...]

BAMN Press Release 10/25/2012: BAMN responds to motions to dismiss lawsuit filed by Birgeneau and other administrators, UCB police, and Alameda County Sheriffs. BRIEF to maintain lawsuit against UC-Berkeley administrators        EXHIBITS (Full Compilation of UCB emails and documents obtained by Public Records Act request) - Click the green “Download” button on the right side of [...]

Stop the Eviction of Jennifer Britt!  Jennifer Britt, a widowed single mother of two, loves Detroit and her home.  Her family – which includes her two children, mother, and an older disabled uncle – could be evicted from their home as early as this week.  Although Jennifer is currently in negotiations with a community organization [...]

Op-Ed piece to the Daily Californian: The UC-Berkeley Police Review Board’s (PRB’s) final report about the police violence November 9, 2011 does only one thing definitively — it reveals that BAMN’s assessment of the PRB has been entirely correct. The PRB, as a body appointed by and answering to Chancellor Birgeneau and the police, is [...]

On Friday, June 1, 2012, several dozen students and civil rights activists participated in a BAMN-organized occupation of the UCLA admissions office to demand: Double Latina/o, black and other underrepresented minority student enrollment Admit more Latina/o, black, and other underrepresented minority students including some of the students we are submitting (on appeal). Reopen the Appeals [...]

(See the FLYER for the Campaign to Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment in UC) 10:30PM – Throughout the evening, protesters chanted at the UCLA police station “Let them go!” and “No segregation in UC, Our people must go free!” The mood was festive, and passersby expressed support and took flyers. The last arrestee was released at [...]

Hi, my name is Hannah Albaseer and I was one of many of the minorities that applied to UC Berkeley and was denied. One of the greatest basketball players once said, “I can accept failure–everyone fails. But I won’t accept not trying.” And turning my back with my head hung over the denied letter from UC Berkeley [...]

Thirty people, including black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to UC-Berkeley and UCLA, began occupying UC-Berkeley’s undergraduate admissions office (in Sproul Hall) at 3:30pm today (Friday, May 11). They are committed to staying until there is a concrete change in UC-Berkeley’s admissions policy now, which admits dramatically low numbers of [...]