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February 8-10, 2002
at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor

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• Build a march on Washington to defend affirmative action & Stop the U.S. Supreme Court from resegregating higher education!

• Win the University of Michigan and all other affirmative action cases.

• Overturn California Proposition 209, Washington State Initiative 200, and Jeb Bush's "One Florida Plan"! Overturn the Hopwood decision.

• No High-Stakes Testing! Equal, Quality Education for All!

• No Budget Cuts in Education! No Corporate Take-overs, No Privatization!

• Fight Racism & Sexism! Build the New Civil Rights Movement.

• Organize Mass Action and Education.

 
On October 23 and December 6, 2001, thousands of university and high school students marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action and integration in Cincinnati, Ohio. The December 6 march and rally corresponded with the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on the two historic US Supreme Court-bound University of Michigan affirmative action cases. A Sixth Circuit decision in these cases is imminent. The future of affirmative action programs at every university across the country will be determined by the final outcome of these two cases. Every supporter of affirmative action should attend this conference in order to secure a Supreme Court victory in these turning point cases.

The Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement on Friday, February 8 through Sunday, February 10 will bring together students, youth, activists, leaders and representatives from universities, schools and communities from around the nation. This conference is the place to come to defend education. All over the county struggles are developing in defense of education budgets, against standardized testing and against all manner of attacks on education - particularly education for poor students and black and other minority students.

With the defense of affirmative action as its point of departure, the new civil rights movement can unite these separate but related struggles and bring them to victory.

At this conference we will discuss and vote on a plan of action for the next phase of struggle of the new movement. We will be building the student and youth leadership that will guide our society through its next period of progressive transformation. It is very important that your school, organization or district be represented. Converging at this conference will be people from all walks of life, brought together by the common aim of defending all the steps our society has taken toward integration and equality.

For students and teachers campaigning in defense of schools, programs or whole districts - this conference is the place to give a broader, stronger character to your efforts. For students campaigning to increase minority enrollment at your school or fighting to reverse a state-wide attacks on affirmative action, this conference is the place to meet and plan out a winning strategy for state-wide and national action. For students, professors and teachers in the HBCU's and in inner-city majority black and other minority districts facing budget cuts, privatization, charter takeovers and racist political attacks - this conference is the place to unite with other people in struggle so that we can win on all fronts. All the gains in black and other minority education must be defended, irrespective of the current inadequate, under-funded, separate, unequal and segregated state of most schools where most black and other minority students learn.

This conference is the place to come to unify these related but disparate struggles. Only on the basis of a winning fight to defend past gains will we have the possibility of breaking down the racist segregation and inequality that permeate our education system and our whole society.

The new movement must say to all people who genuinely wish to struggle in defense of what we have achieved, come to this conference, build a united effort of all the local and state-wide campaigns - this is how we will win. We must unite and we must build the mass struggle. It is through building, and coordinating this mass struggle that we can move our society forward now. The Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement is the place to do just that.

The conference is being organized by BAMN (the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary) and co-sponsored by Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. For more information on how to attend (registration, housing, etc.) go to www.bamn.com.

For more information, email us at bamn@umich.edu
or call BAMN Outreach Coordinators Caroline Wong at 313-330-5073 or
Tiffany Bloom at 313-303-8823

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See also:
Call for the Conference, dated January 18, 2002

See also:
Resolutions passed by the First National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement (June 6-8, 2001)
 

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