Shut Down California on March 4th in Defense of Public Education!

Increase Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at UCB and in the UC System!
Make Available Dream Act Scholarships for Undocumented Students!
Make UCB a Diverse, Integrated, Affordable Sanctuary Campus where Critical Thinking Can Take Place!
Reverse the Fee Hikes! No Layoffs, Furloughs, or Cuts!
For a Massive Infusion of Federal Funding for Public Education K-12 through Grad School!

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BAMN Week of Action:
Build the New Student & Civil Rights Movement

The forum will feature a discussion of the national political situation and the impact the student movement has had in shaping the debate on the future of public education. Specifically, we will assess the relative balance of forces in the fight to defend public education and the necessity of developing a new black and Latina/o student leadership to expand and broaden the movement to best achieve its short-term and long-term goals, including a massive, statewide mobilization on March 4th.

Demand a NO Vote on the Proposed REALM Charter School:
There is a dangerous effort underway to establish the city of Berkeley's first charter school. The school will likely be predominantly black and Latina/o and segregated because, unlike the rest of the Berkeley schools, it would not comply with Berkeley’s historic desegregation program. It would provide a substandard, second-class education with far fewer extracurricular activities and programs than are available in Berkeley's public schools. Berkeley must not sign onto this attack on public education.

Demand BUSD Pass a Resolution Endorsing the March 4th Day of Action to Defend Public Education:
Students, teachers, workers and community members will be mobilizing, speaking out, marching and rallying in defense of public education and to win the local, State and Federal resources required to ensure a high quality, integrated, accessible and affordable public education, K-12, the Community Colleges, CSU, and UC undergraduate and graduate school for all Californians.

The public hearing on hostile campus climate is an opportunity for students to speak the plain truth about the racism, sexism, and anti-gay bigotry they experience at UC Berkeley. Since the passage of Proposition 209, the ban on affirmative action programs, the UC system has become increasingly segregated and inaccessible to underrepresented minority students and working class students of all races. The resegregation of UC system has laid the groundwork for the current attacks on public education and the push for privatization.

The incredibly low number of black, Latina/o, and Native American students admitted and enrolled has meant the few underrepresented minority students that are here receive a thoroughly discriminatory and unequal educational experience. The resulting segregation and elitism fosters a campus climate that is also hostile to women, LGBT, and working class students. The policy of the UC police department toward the students during the Nov. and Dec. days of action against the fee hikes and in defense of public education were a continuation and expression of this racist anti-student policy. We invite you and members of your organization to attend the hearing, give testimony, and support others who will testify. If you were a witness to or the recipient of police brutality on the days of protest, please attend and give testimony as well.

If you would like to testify at the hearing, please call 510-502-9072 or email California@bamn.com

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