*Please forward widely* NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Los Angeles, Fri.-Sun., May 26-28, 2006 *No More Second-Class Treatment *No Jim Crow/Anti-Immigrant Laws *Full and Equal Rights for Immigrants *Defend Affirmative Action & Integration *No More Separate and Unequal Educational Opportunities *Build the New Mass, Integrated Civil Rights Movement =============================================================== Conference registration begins Friday, May 26 at 9am, First AME Church, 2270 South Harvard Blvd, Los Angeles 90018 (located just east of Western Ave and just north of Adams Blvd) Sat. & Sun. sessions will be held at the University of Southern California =============================================================== * Check http://www.myspace.com/nationalbamn or http://www.bamn.com for more details * Contact BAMN's LA Coordinator, Hoku Jeffrey at (323) 317-7675 or hoku@bamn.com * See bottom of this email to see how you can get involved! Study history, and you will learn the significance of and commit to memory certain key dates. Turning points of nations are marked by events that occur on specific days. Make history, and you learn that the direction of a nation is determined by the collective will of the masses of common people to act decisively. Mass action by the oppressed is the basis of all human social progress. March 25, 2006 will mark the day that the Latina/o communities gave birth to a new mass civil rights movement. It will be celebrated for years to come as the day in which the struggle for equality and justice was placed back on the American political agenda. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, and all Americans who battle racism, prejudice, and second-class treatment will embrace March 25, 2006 as the day when the Latina/o masses of L.A., so often degraded and treated as invisible, stood up for us all and said, "Enough is enough. We will not accept second-class treatment any longer." The March 25 immigrant rights rally and march through downtown Los Angeles of more than a million people was the largest civil rights demonstration in the history of this nation. Twice as large as the renowned August 28, 1963 March on Washington, the L.A. march opens the way to turn back decades of attacks on the gains of the old civil rights movement and, for the first time in this nation's history, to join together the struggles for immigrant rights and civil rights. The ten-year national attack on affirmative action and integration emanating from California can now be defeated. It is the task of the young leaders of this powerful new civil rights movement to rebuild the struggle for freedom, dignity, equality, and justice from where Martin Luther King left off and take it to the next level. To move forward, the young leaders of the new civil rights movement must draw out and learn from the struggle we have been leading in the last month. Our young movement needs political clarity to grow and progress. Our tasks, tactical aims, methods for advancing the struggle, political program and demands must be clearly articulated. Maintaining the dynamism of our movement and increasing our power requires building a conscious, critical, committed leadership. The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) exists to build the youth leadership and organization we need to increase the power of the forces the Latina/o led immigrant rights struggles has just begun to unleash. BAMN knows how to win real political victories. In the last ten years, we have successfully led the fight to defend affirmative action and improve educational opportunities for Latina/o, black, and other minority students. We will convene a National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement. We urge all to attend and to help build the power of the new civil rights movement. ========================== Get Involved, Take Action: ========================== *If you are a high school or middle school student from Southern California, get your teacher to take a field trip to the conference - Its not too late! Show this announcement to your teachers today and contact us to get further info. *If you are a college student, take the day off from class and bring a bunch of friends! *If you have to work, get the day off and come with a group of co-workers! *Go to http://www.bamn.com/doc/2006/0605-natlconf.pdf - download the flyer for the conference, make copies and hand them out everywhere! (available in both English and Spanish) *If you are a Myspace or Facebook user, please forward out this announcement to anyone and everyone you can think of - your friends, your groups, your school and post it on bulletin boards, forums, etc... *Sign up to become a friend of BAMN's Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/nationalbamn *If you are unable to come to LA for the conference, please contact us to find out how you can bring a BAMN speaker to your city or school. *BAMN is forming new chapters in high schools and college campuses around the country. We invite youth and students around the country to join BAMN as individuals, form BAMN chapters or affiliate their organization to BAMN. _____________________________________________________________ Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights & Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) http://www.myspace.com/nationalbamn http://www.bamn.com (323)317-7675 california@bamn.com