CALL TO ACTION:
Deal Ward Connerly & the Segregationists a NATIONAL Defeat!

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Six months ago, Ward Connerly, the millionaire black businessman who is leading the charge against affirmative action and K-12 integration programs, boasted that he could get referendums to ban affirmative action passed this year in five states – Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and Nebraska. He figured it would be a shoo-in – but he figured wrong.

BAMN, in cooperation with local activists, has already defeated Connerly’s effort to place an anti-affirmative action initiative on the ballot in Oklahoma. In Colorado, a coalition named "Vote No on 46" has challenged more than 69,000 of the 128,000 petition signatures submitted by Connerly in that state.

The effort to stop an identical referendum is under way in Missouri, where Connerly faces a May 4th deadline, and from there will move to Arizona and Nebraska where petition signatures must be submitted before July 4th.

Connerly’s campaign continues to utilize the tactic of racially-targeted voter fraud to obtain signatures in minority neighborhoods, as was widely done in Michigan, but their approach in Missouri’s white neighborhoods has taken on an overtly racist character. The Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI) has recruited volunteer signature gatherers among anti-immigrant vigilantes such as “Minutemen” and hardcore racist elements in an attempt to coalesce old-fashioned segregationists with other far-right forces.

BAMN is confident that Connerly can be prevented from obtaining the required number of signatures to get on the ballot through exposure of the voter fraud and use of pro-affirmative action organizers’ First Amendment rights to dissuade voters from signing the ballot petition.

BAMN calls on students and activists all across the country who stand for equality and integration to join BAMN in Missouri, Arizona and Nebraska over the next six weeks in “Operation King’s Dream” – an all-out effort to keep America on the road to social equality and progress.

Write letters@bamn.com or call 313-438-3748 today to join the campaign! If you can’t come yourself, MAKE A DONATION to help support a field organizer! There’s no time to wait!