NATIONAL
STUDENT/YOUTH CONFERENCE
to
Defend Affirmative Action and Integration
and Struggle for Equality
 

 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
JUNE 1-3, 2001
 

 
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY
The First National Student/Youth Conference to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Struggle for Equality:
 

• Conference Declaration

• Resolution for a National Mobilization to Cincinnati, Ohio to Coincide with the Circuit Court Appeal of the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Legal Cases

• Petition to End High Stakes Standardized Testing

• Resolution Passed at the Organizing Asian Americans Workshop

• Resolution to Abolish the Death Penalty

• Resolution to Establish a Coordinating Committee
   

 
NEWS COVERAGE: 

6/8/2001:	Eastern Echo (Eastern Mich. Univ.) - "BAMN Conference mobilizes action"
6/7/2001:	Michigan Citizen - "No backing down: New student movement in the making" [Photo from June 1 rally]
5/31/2001:	Associated Press - "Students, Jesse Jackson look to spark pro-affirmative action movement"
5/31/2001:	Detroit News - "Students to rally at U-M"
5/22/2001:	Metro Times - "On the (activist) road"
5/28/2001:	BAMN National Email: "The Victory in California and the Michigan Conference"
5/13/2001:	New York Times - "Student Protest Comes of Age" [text version]
4/16/2001:	Michigan Daily - "National conference in the works"

 
Conference Announcement
Conference Agenda

Jesse Jackson calls on students and youth to act
Video clip [requires RealPlayer]

 
Printable versions of the literature for the conference: [PDF format]
      Conference Announcement - 8-1/2"x11" double-sided
      Conference Agenda - 8-1/2"x11" double-sided

Text file version of the conference announcement & agenda - Click here

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