"The intention of the US Supreme Court is to end all the hard-fought progress toward integration we have made—THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED," said Shanta Driver, National Spokesperson and attorney for By Any Means Necessary.

"In striking down the Seattle and Louisville school desegregation plans, the US Supreme Court said to the people of America that they will not allow any local communities to enact any policies to integrate their public schools. Both the Seattle and Louisville programs are long-standing, tremendously popular, voluntary school desegregation programs. Fully 83% of the people of Louisville, black and white, support their schools' integration plan."

It is necessary for the new civil rights movement to stand up and represent the overwhelming will to integrate. We must continue to be the representatives and champions of the aspiration to progress and integration in America. The new civil rights movement expresses in action the popular and growing belief in the equality of women and men and black and white. It is only the new movement that can move our society forward.

"The US Supreme Court is way to the right of the American people; this decision, in opposition to the common aspiration to integration and equality, further isolates the US Supreme Court.

"The narrow, 5-4 conservative majority of the US Supreme Court seeks to render Brown v. Board of Education a dead letter. The absurd and dishonest decision in the Seattle and Louisville case, aims to prohibit steps of any kind that can remedy the stark segregation of American schools," Ms. Driver continued.

Further compromising the Court's moral authority is the Orwellian use of Brown v. Board of Education as a supposed justification for this segregationist decision.

"This decision cannot stand – it will not stand; it is hypocritical, dishonest and racist. BAMN is fighting for integration and equality in America's schools. We are fighting to realize the dream of Martin Luther King of a society of sister- and brotherhood. Our movement is growing. More people are awakening to the fact that the low expectations for justice in our society that the powers that be, including the courts, are attempting to enforce are a thing of the past. We have a right to expect to be treated as equals. We have a right to expect basic integration of our education system," said Luke Massie, BAMN National Co-Chair.

"Integration and the social benefit that flows from it are too important for even George Bush's Supreme Court to sideline in permanence. The new civil rights movement will fight to overturn this wretched decision in practice in the nation's schools and as matter of law. We will continue to fight for the integration and equality that the overwhelming majority of Americans desire. There is no power in this society stronger than our movement in struggle. The young leaders of the new civil rights movement must shoulder the responsibility for achieving racial progress in America, in education and in every aspect of the society," continued Ms. Driver.

BAMN currently represents the students who are intervening as defendants in the lawsuit challenging the LA School District's magnet school integration plan.