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UPDATES: Affirmative Action

3/10/2010  
2/22/2010  

Tuesday, February 23 - RALLY AT UC BERKELEY noon at Sproul Plaza
Win a UC-Wide Dream Scholarship Program: Financial Aid for Undocumented Immigrant Students! Restore Affirmative Action and Overturn Prop 209!

2/21/2010  
2/16/2010  
2/15/2010  

Full Archive for "Affirmative Action" →

ESSENTIAL

Ward Connerly: Spokesperson for the Campaign to Resegregate America

Connerly's Method of Racially-Targeted Voter Fraud

Argument for Affirmative Action

BAMN is continuing the struggle to win full integration and equality in American society. Currently, BAMN is combating Ward Connerly's effort to get white-majority electorates to outlaw affirmative action through state ballot initiatives. In August 2008, BAMN succeeded at keeping Connerly's initiative out of Arizona, after having defeated him in Missouri and Oklahoma earlier that year. BAMN is conducting a federal challenge against Michigan's Proposal 2, to strike down as unconstitutional statewide affirmative action bans in Michigan and across the country.

Restore Affirmative Action in California, Michigan, and Across the Nation!

BAMN is organizing a nationwide movement to win a federal lawsuit challenging Michigan's anti-affirmative-action constitutional amendment, Proposal 2. If we build the movement, we can win this lawsuit, which would lead to the overturn of Michigan's Proposal 2, California's Proposition 200, and other state bans on affirmative action nationally.

National Campaign to Overturn Michigan's Proposal 2!

  • (VIDEO) BAMN's deposition of Ward Connerly - BAMN interrogates the head of the Proposal 2 campaign under oath.
  • BAMN's brief to overturn Proposal 2 [PDF file]
  • Summary of BAMN's legal argument. [DOC file]
  • Do the following
    • Form a BAMN chapter. Contact BAMN. Hold a meeting and vote on BAMN's principles.
    • Invite BAMN to your campus. Hold a forum to organize your campus and invite BAMN as a speaker. Get your school, academic department, and/or student government to co-sponsor.
    • Organize a debate including BAMN and an anti-affirmative action speaker. Work in conjunction with other organizations..
    • Make a donation.

California

BAMN is building the movement to overturn the ban on affirmative action, Proposition 209, and to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment at the University of California

  • Eliminating the SAT
  • BAMN is organizing public hearings at the UC campuses on the rise in racism, isolation, and hostile climate for underrepresented minority students that has resulted from ending affirmative action. At UC-Berkeley and UCLA, students have given powerful testimony, and they have formed a basis for combating racism and sexism and winning change at the university level. Organize a public hearing at your campus. Contact BAMN today.
    • EXCERPTS from 1st UC-Berkeley public hearing November 2005. [Adobe PDF file]
    • VIDEO from 3rd UC-Berkeley public hearing April 2007
  • In May 2001, the new civil rights movement won a victory and forced the University of California Regents to reverse their ban on affirmative action

Arizona

With few resources, BAMN succeeded at defeating Connerly's multi-million dollar effort to place an anti-affirmative-action initiative on the fall 2008 ballot. It is a model for how to defeat right-wing ballot initiatives across the country. See the Stop ACRI Page.