Public Education

UPDATE 3/29 9:27AM: Ten protesters — two of them Oakland teachers, one an Oakland high school student, and two of them attorneys — were arrested by Oakland School Police at about midnight last night while sitting-in at the Oakland school district Board Room in the Paul Robeson Building (1025 – 2nd Ave.). Last night, the [...]

FIGHT TO SAVE OUR SCHOOLS AND SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS! Espanol Join BAMN and organize youth-led direct mass action: KEEP ALL DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! Use State Surplus Funding to Restore DPS! Restore Dr. King’s Dream for America in Detroit! Equal, Quality Education for ALL Black, Latina/o, other minority and poor White Students! Unite the Black [...]

BAMN Press Release 3/27/2012: Oakland community outraged by Superintendent Smith’s plan to lease Santa Fe Elementary to Emeryville Schools and hand Lazear Elementary to charter-school companies “Keep all Oakland public schools open! Our children are not for sale!” PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY Tuesday, March 27, 4:15pm OUSD Administration Building, 1025 2nd Ave. (Oakland) DEMONSTRATION AT SCHOOL [...]

Media Release 3/23/2012: BAMN files brief challenging U.C. stay-away orders against Occupy protesters, set hearing for April 3 Defendants demand end to political witchhunt Brief available at http://bit.ly/GLP8zt Attorneys with the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) filed a motion and supporting brief [...]

FIGHT TO KEEP ALL OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! The Oakland School Board is scheduled to vote THIS WEDNESDAY on leasing Santa Fe Elementary to the Emeryville School District, and turning Lazear Elementary over to the Charter School Operators!  We will NOT allow this to go through! Take Direct Action! There is Power in our NUMBERS [...]

Thanks to Occupy Oakland Media for initially hosting this article. FREE SPEECH IS ON TRIAL at the home of the Free Speech Movement, the University of California at Berkeley. On November 9, 2011, the burgeoning Occupy movement spread to the university  campuses, when thousands of UC-Berkeley students rallied to fight fee hikes and the privatization [...]

On March 20, 2012 BAMN leader Yvette Felarca slammed the political witchhunt against her and other Occupy Cal protesters, after being arraigned and issued a stay-away order to be more than 100 yards away from UC-Berkeley campus and all UC property. (Video and transcript below.) YVETTE FELARCA: My name is Yvette Felarca, and I’m with [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Movement celebrates victory today: UC-Berkeley chancellor forced to resign Students also demand that Birgeneau withdraw the criminal charges filed against Nov. 9 protesters before he leaves PRESS CONFERENCE Tuesday, March 13th, 3:30pm MLK Student Union, outside Tully’s Cafe (Bancroft + Telegraph, Berkeley) BAMN and other movement activists will hold a press conference [...]

Join BAMN and organize youth-led direct mass action: • KEEP ALL SCHOOLS OPEN • Use State Surplus Funds to restore DPS • Restore Doctor King’s Dream for America in Detroit • Defend our Dignity – Equal, quality education for all Black, Latino/a other minority and poor white students When We Fight We Win! This is [...]

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 [...]