occupy

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, [...]

Video: Public Tribunal on the Berkeley Administration’s Brutal Response to Students’ Fight to Defend Public Education [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at the University of California! BUILD THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NEW INDEPENDENT INTEGRATED YOUTH-LED CIVIL AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORGANIZE AND LEAD MASS-MILITANT ACTIONS TO WIN OUR DEMANDS. 3:00pm at Murphy hall outside main entrance We demand: Save Dr. King’s Dream for America in California Save the Promise of Equality Embodied [...]

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 [...]

Thirty people, including black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to UC-Berkeley and UCLA, began occupying UC-Berkeley’s undergraduate admissions office (in Sproul Hall) at 3:30pm today (Friday, May 11). They are committed to staying until there is a concrete change in UC-Berkeley’s admissions policy now, which admits dramatically low numbers of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]