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RESOLUTION FOR A NATIONAL
MOBILIZATION TO CINCINNATI, OHIO
to Coincide with the Circuit Court
Appeal of the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Legal Cases
Adopted at the National
Student/Youth Conference to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration
and Struggle for Equality, on June 1, 2001
400-500 voted for, 0 against,
6 abstaining
The attack on affirmative action over the last 6 years
has led to the creation of a new civil rights movement. This movement
has taken a stand in defense of affirmative action at the University of
Michigan.
The University of Michigan Law School affirmative action trial that
began on January 16, 2001, was the first full trial on affirmative
action in higher education where high school and university students
have been independent defendants. At trial, the student intervenors put
on a comprehensive and powerful case consisting of 15 of the total of 23
witnesses called in the entire case.
Conservative District Court judge Bernard Friedman ignored the evidence
put before him at trial in order to reach a sweeping, ideological
anti-affirmative action decision in the case.
In October 2001 the University of Michigan affirmative action legal
cases will go in front of the Sixth Circuit court of Appeals in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
These cases are headed for the US Supreme Court and will determine the
legal standing of affirmative action in higher education and throughout
society.
This conference will mobilize nationally to Cincinnati, Ohio in October
to demand that the Appeals Court uphold affirmative action as measures
to offset the racist and sexist inequality of our society.
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