BAMN - Full and Equal Rights for All Immigrants!

UPDATES: Immigrant Rights


3/10/2010	Open Letter to the UC-San Diego Black Student Union and to All Students Fighting Racist Attacks and Racist Exclusion in UC and Standing in Defense of Public Education Congratulations and perspectives.
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!
2/18/2010	University of California Student Government Calls for U.C. Dream Act - Berkeley student government calls on chancellor to endorse the Mar. 23-25 proposal Read the resolution - Add your name or organization!!
2/13/2010	STATEWIDE MOBILIZATION to the U.C. Regents' Meeting Mar. 23-25 to Win the U.C. Dream Act! A political perspective for winning the U.C. Dream Act and reviving the statewide movement for public education
2/10/2010	UC Berkeley BAMN Mass Meeting and Strategy Session on February 13 to Organize the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Public Education Win a UC-Wide Dream Scholarship! Overturn Prop 209! Make UC Berkeley a Center of the New Civil Rights and Student Movement to Defend Public Education!

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Essential

Call to Action for Young Leaders of the New Civil Rights Movement

BAMN's declaration to the Movement of 2006 and on where we go from here.

"Yearning to Breathe Free": BAMN's Declaration on Immigrant Rights

A roadmap for the struggle for immigrant rights and the general struggle for freedom in America.

Keynote Address at March for the California Dream Act in Sacramento (Bilingüe)

BAMN National Chair Shanta Driver's speech on the aims and methods of the new civil rights movement.

"To be an American is to live and learn and work here, to contribute to the development of the nation's economy and society... and to be committed to the American project of making real certain principles of liberty and equality on this national territory."
Liberator #7, p. 9

BAMN is building the movement to end Jim Crow, second-class treatment against immigrants, documented and undocumented. We are building a united mass, integrated civil rights movement that will unite black and brown to win full freedom and equality for all.

We are fighting to win college financial aid and citizenship for undocumented immigrant students, and organizing to make every school, college, city, municipality, and state into a sanctuary, including getting university administrations and cities to not cooperate with immigration police. We are mobilizing community resistance to anti-immigrant raids.

Obama: Pass the DREAM Act!

BAMN is organizing a national movement to win the right to college financial aid and legalization for undocumented immigrant students. We are fighting to pass the Federal DREAM Act, as well state versions of the DREAM Act.

National

Join BAMN's DREAM Act Facebook Page to build the movement!
National DREAM Act petition. Sign and forward. Print it out and organize in your school, college, or community! (Bilingual)
Stop the deportations of DREAMers! Build local campaigns to stop the deportations of DREAM Act students. Contact BAMN for help. Also, find more info at DREAMActivist.org
FAQ on the Federal Dream Act (at DreamActivist.org)
BAMN debates racist organization on NPR
BAMN opinion pieces arguing for the Dream Act

"Prejudice Against Immigrants Hurts All" - response to anti-Dream-Act article
"The Reality of the DREAM"

California

BAMN is organizing statewide to demand that Governor Schwarzenegger sign the California Dream Act (passed by the state legislature) into law. Join the fight!

(VIDEO) September 26, 2008 march on Sacramento, and BAMN's keynote speech Keynote speech (Bilingüe) Raw footage of march
SLIDE SHOW of September 2007 March in Sacramento for the California Dream Act (On the page, click the yellow rectangle)

Justice for Jesús Gutiérrez!
Make Sanctuary Campuses at UC-Berkeley and Across the Nation!

Jesús Gutiérrez was a custodial worker and AFSCME union activist at UC-Berkeley who was arrested by university police and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Hundreds of outraged students, workers, and community supporters have marched and circulated petitions demanding his release and demanding that UC-Berkeley become a sanctuary campus: no collaboration with ICE.

Although Gutiérrez was deported in June 2009, the fight continues to make UC-Berkeley a sanctuary campus. We must make this a nationwide student, worker, and community movement to establish the dignity and equal rights of all people at our colleges and universities!

(VIDEO) News story (in Spanish) of UC-Berkeley demonstration. Raw footage

Join BAMN's DREAM Act Facebook Page to build the movement!
UC-Berkeley flyer from May 2009. (Volante de más edad en español (información de más edad))

Make California a Sanctuary State!

California BAMN is organizing statewide, including through campaigns to stop deportations (see Jesús Gutiérrez above), win the California Dream Act, and to mobilize communities to respond to ICE raids, in order to strengthen and build the movement and make California a sanctuary state. Join the struggle!

In May 2008, community mobilizing—including the action of students, teachers, parents, the school district and city government—secured the release of a Berkeley resident and his family from ICE custody. Get more info (Bilingüe)
Make California a Sanctuary State: BAMN statement
CALL TO ACTION to Stop the Kidnapping Raids (Bilingüe)
Oakland, CA becomes a sanctuary! Read the news story and see the Oakland City Council report and resolution.