occupation

On Friday, June 1, 2012, several dozen students and civil rights activists participated in a BAMN-organized occupation of the UCLA admissions office to demand: Double Latina/o, black and other underrepresented minority student enrollment Admit more Latina/o, black, and other underrepresented minority students including some of the students we are submitting (on appeal). Reopen the Appeals [...]

The occupation of the UC Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Admissions Office on May 11th, 2012 was a huge success! Latina/o, black and Arab students are gaining confidence in their right to be on the elite public campuses of California, on their right to gain access to the doors of opportunity that these institutions offer,  and [...]

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and the Friends of the Monteith Library celebrate our victory and announce to the community that the Lincoln Library has reopened. When the Library Commission closed four library branches last December 22, BAMN led an occupation [...]

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 [...]

BAMN Press Release 4/2/2012: BAMN and UC-Berkeley student-government parties celebrate victory today against stay-away orders on Occupy Cal defendants They demand end to remainder of political witch-hunt: Drop the charges on the Berkeley 13 now! PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY MONDAY, APRIL 2, 3:15PM Press conference moved to UC-Berkeley’s Sproul Hall steps for defendants to celebrate victory [...]

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 [...]

NO CUTS TO THE UCB ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY OR ANY CAMPUS SERVICES! Our movement is fighting to win. We voted on demands and we intend to win them. Join the occupation of UC-Berkeley’s Anthropology Library! It’s in Rm. 230 of Kroeber Hall, at the intersection of Bancroft + College. The occupation of the Anthropology Library to [...]

WE ARE WINNING!! BAMN members and community activists continue the fight to stop the closure of Detroit branch libraries. This is a fight to defend our neighborhoods and our dignity and stop the decimation of our city by building our power through mass organizing to increase our numbers and by carrying out the following tactic: [...]