affirmative action

Excerpts From the Brief Yesterday, BAMN’s legal team at Scheff, Washington & Driver filed the legal brief in defense of our victory last summer to overturn Prop 2 and restore affirmative action in Michigan. The brief was a response to the attempt by the opponents of affirmative action (lead by Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Scheutte) to reverse our [...]

The Fight for Integration & Equality “You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring [...]

Restoring Affirmative Action in California Students, activists, teachers, professors, elected officials, civil rights groups and others are gearing up for the November 2nd Day of Action to Overturn Prop 209 and Restore Affirmative Action in California. Shian Brandolino (right), BAMN student organizer at King/Drew Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles is leading up the [...]

      The Myth of Meritocracy, continued   Why GPA is not a race-neutral admissions criterion From Kindergarten through high school, racist inequality and segregation permeate education in America. Majority black and Latina/o schools receive less per-pupil funding, have fewer books, less academic, sports and art equipment and facilities, and have less diversity of [...]

The situation in the University of California is at a crisis point, and everything must be done to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment now. Governor Jerry Brown should have signed SB 185, which urged public universities to consider race and gender in admissions to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment. However, Governor Brown’s veto message also [...]

Say No to the New Jim Crow at MSU! At the last MSU BAMN Meeting on Thursday, Oct 6, 2011, the following Demands were voted on and passed: Do everything legally permissible to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment at MSU; Go on record that the ban on affirmative action, Prop 2, should be declared unconstitutional [...]

The myth of ‘meritocracy’ Affirmative Action is the Desegregation Program for Higher Education –  Not a ‘Preference’ Standardized test scores are not a race-neutral admissions criteria. Without, affirmative action, they give a preference to white students. In their arguments, the opponents of affirmative action constantly refer to a grid that shows SAT scores across the [...]

Say NO to the New Jim Crow! Realize MLK’s Dream at UCLA!   BAMN (the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary), and dozens of California students of all races, with and without papers, have filed a federal lawsuit to overturn California’s anti-affirmative action Constitutional [...]

BAMN Wins Affirmative Action Victory: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LEGAL AGAIN IN MICHIGAN’S UNIVERSITIES The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today declared that Proposal 2 — Ward Connerly’s ban on affirmative action—is unconstitutional.  Affirmative action is again legal in admissions to Michigan’s public universities. The two to one ruling came in a suit [...]

Our Rights and Responsibilities at Elite Campuses Like UC Berkeley and UCLA The Relevance of the Term “Privileged” to the Conditions of Latina/o, Black, Native American, Undocumented, Other Under-Represented Minority Students and All Poor and Working-Class Students, and Our Rights and Responsibilities at Elite Campuses Like UC Berkeley and UCLAWe want to make a contribution [...]