Public Education

STOP THE POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT OF BRIAN CROWELL Defending the Best Political Traditions of Berkeley Requires Defending Brian Crowell Against Victimization by BUSD CONTACT THE DISTRICT TO DEMAND THEY STOP THEIR WITCH-HUNT OF MR. CROWELL (Board of Education: 510-644-6550  [email protected]; Superintendent: 510-644-6206) CONTACT BAMN TO SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN: 855-ASK-BAMN  [email protected] Veteran Berkeley High School teacher Brian [...]

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On Oakland’s Cesar Chavez Holiday, high school, middle school, and college students MARCHED and demanded FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL, the DREAM ACT, NO PROBATION, NO FINES, NO DEPORTATIONS, and OPEN BORDERS! Watch the speeches and videos from the day!   [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

Save Catherine Ferguson Academy! The Students of CFA Demand the Quality Education We Deserve! This is a call to all CFA students, teachers, parents, alumni, former teachers and supporters everywhere. We need to stand up together to defend our beloved school once again. While there hasn’t been any announcement of CFA closing, it has ceased [...]

The following is the text of a flyer recently distributed by BAMN’s sister organization in Britain, Movement for Justice. Though a few of the demands are particular to the UK, most of the flyer, particularly the “lessons” section and the criticisms of anarchism, are applicable to the Occupy movement in the U.S. ★ Bring down [...]

“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 [...]