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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:00-9:00PM Room 136 Barrows Hall, UC-Berkeley Keynote Speaker: Shanta Driver BAMN National Chair, Immigration & Civil Rights Attorney Replace partial probationary status with full citizenship rights for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, [...]

Justice for Occupy Cal Protesters! Public Tribunal: “Putting the UCB Administration and Privatization ON TRIAL” This Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 6:00pm in the Tan Oak Room (4th Floor, MLK Student Union) Video record of Tribunal: A year ago, students and community members made history as part of Occupy Cal, standing up for public education and [...]

BAMN Press Release 10/25/2012: BAMN responds to motions to dismiss lawsuit filed by Birgeneau and other administrators, UCB police, and Alameda County Sheriffs. BRIEF to maintain lawsuit against UC-Berkeley administrators        EXHIBITS (Full Compilation of UCB emails and documents obtained by Public Records Act request) - Click the green “Download” button on the right side of [...]

Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment and Pass the Federal DREAM Act! Restore affirmative action! Make UCB a sanctuary campus! Save UCLA’s National Dream University! Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, White, Citizens & Immigrants — With and Without Papers — WE ARE ALL CALIFORNIANS! TUESDAY, OCT. 23: DAY OF ACTION TO DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PUBLIC [...]

Watch the Univision coverage (in Spanish) Univision story with English subtitles BAMN at UC-Berkeley held a press conference Thursday, September 20 demanding that the UC system restore UCLA’s National Dream University. Sign and share the online petition. [...]

Op-Ed piece to the Daily Californian: The UC-Berkeley Police Review Board’s (PRB’s) final report about the police violence November 9, 2011 does only one thing definitively — it reveals that BAMN’s assessment of the PRB has been entirely correct. The PRB, as a body appointed by and answering to Chancellor Birgeneau and the police, is [...]

If you were denied admission to UC-Berkeley or UCLA, send in your appeal application before the deadline and contact BAMN — we will help you fight for your admission. Watch the KTVU Channel 2 story: BAMN Press Release 4/8/2012: Latina Berkeley High Senior Aillen Zazueta-Bella Fights for Her Right and Other Underrepresented Minority Students’ Right [...]

College students, high school students, and other members of BAMN and UC-Berkeley’s student-government slate, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP) occupied the campus Registrar’s Office April 6 demanding that UCB (1) double underrepresented minority student enrollment and (2) drop the criminal charges against campus protesters. Occupiers met with campus administrators and presented thousands of petitions in [...]

MATT WILLIAMS for ASUC President #115 and Senate #142 Visit VOTEDAAP.ORG “I’ve been to jail twice around this fight for public education, and next time I go I want it to be as ASUC president.” – Matt Williams MATT WILLIAMS, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP) candidate for UC-Berkeley’s ASUC president, won the debate hosted by [...]

Why YOU should vote DAAP for ASUC: Visit the DAAP website at goDAAP.org We are the voice of the new movement. We are bold and do not fear confrontation; and we are anti-racist and pro-immigrant rights. We pledge to fight to keep our university a public institution and to defend the California Master Plan from [...]