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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! OAKLAND: Gather Saturday, June 1st, at 2:00pm at Plaza de la Fuente (near 34th Ave. + International Blvd. and near Fruitvale BART) March to the Downtown Oakland Federal Building! For the first time since 2006, new federal immigration legislation is on the agenda. Everyone’s talking [...]

On Cinco de Mayo (May 5, 2013), BAMN marched down Oakland’s International Boulevard to celebrate CINCO DE MAYO and demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan had cancelled Oakland’s annual celebration, expressing fear of Oakland’s powerful Latina/o and immigrant communities. After a week of organizing and exposing this political decision, BAMN won [...]

Download the flyer (download PDF for best quality): English      Spanish Our Time Is Now. Our Movement Can Win. Cinco de Mayo is OUR Holiday. Tell Mayor Quan: Oakland is NOT Arizona March on Cinco de Mayo! March on May 1st, March on May 5th, and Keep Marching Until We Win the Dignity, Respect, Equality and [...]

TELL JEAN QUAN:OAKLAND IS NOT ARIZONA! UN-CANCEL CINCO DE MAYO! ¡MARCHA! SUNDAY, CINCO DE MAYO, MAY 5, 2013:12PM: March from 98th Ave. + International (Oakland)2PM:   Rally & Celebration at 34th Ave. + International (near Fruitvale BART) Download the poster (DOWNLOAD for better quality):ENGLISH    SPANISH OUR DEMANDS: Full citizenship rights for all people who [...]

On Oakland’s Cesar Chavez Holiday, high school, middle school, and college students MARCHED and demanded FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL, the DREAM ACT, NO PROBATION, NO FINES, NO DEPORTATIONS, and OPEN BORDERS! Watch the speeches and videos from the day!   [...]

Click to download the flyer Facebook Event Page Oakland will MARCH on California’s Cesar Chavez Holiday — Monday, April 1, 2013 — to demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! These are our demands: FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, [...]

On March 28, 2012, BAMN led a sit-in at the Oakland School Board meeting demanding they rescind the closing of 5 elementary schools. By the end of the night, ten of us were arrested and we got out our message to the media. We fired the opening shot in the fight to save Oakland’s schools. [...]

UPDATE 3/29 9:27AM: Ten protesters — two of them Oakland teachers, one an Oakland high school student, and two of them attorneys — were arrested by Oakland School Police at about midnight last night while sitting-in at the Oakland school district Board Room in the Paul Robeson Building (1025 – 2nd Ave.). Last night, the [...]

BAMN Press Release 3/27/2012: Oakland community outraged by Superintendent Smith’s plan to lease Santa Fe Elementary to Emeryville Schools and hand Lazear Elementary to charter-school companies “Keep all Oakland public schools open! Our children are not for sale!” PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY Tuesday, March 27, 4:15pm OUSD Administration Building, 1025 2nd Ave. (Oakland) DEMONSTRATION AT SCHOOL [...]

FIGHT TO KEEP ALL OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! The Oakland School Board is scheduled to vote THIS WEDNESDAY on leasing Santa Fe Elementary to the Emeryville School District, and turning Lazear Elementary over to the Charter School Operators!  We will NOT allow this to go through! Take Direct Action! There is Power in our NUMBERS [...]