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Double Black, Latina/o, Native American, and Other Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at UC Berkeley NOW! Drop the Charges Against Occupy Cal Protesters! Rally and Sit-In at UC Berkeley Friday, April 6th, 12 NOON at Sproul Plaza Defend Dr. King’s Dream for America Real at UC Berkeley! Restore Affirmative Action and Overturn Prop 209! BUILD the New [...]

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 [...]

FIGHT TO SAVE OUR SCHOOLS AND SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS! Espanol Join BAMN and organize youth-led direct mass action: KEEP ALL DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! Use State Surplus Funding to Restore DPS! Restore Dr. King’s Dream for America in Detroit! Equal, Quality Education for ALL Black, Latina/o, other minority and poor White Students! Unite the Black [...]

Media Release 3/23/2012: BAMN files brief challenging U.C. stay-away orders against Occupy protesters, set hearing for April 3 Defendants demand end to political witchhunt Brief available at http://bit.ly/GLP8zt Attorneys with the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) filed a motion and supporting brief [...]

Thanks to Occupy Oakland Media for initially hosting this article. FREE SPEECH IS ON TRIAL at the home of the Free Speech Movement, the University of California at Berkeley. On November 9, 2011, the burgeoning Occupy movement spread to the university  campuses, when thousands of UC-Berkeley students rallied to fight fee hikes and the privatization [...]

On March 20, 2012 BAMN leader Yvette Felarca slammed the political witchhunt against her and other Occupy Cal protesters, after being arraigned and issued a stay-away order to be more than 100 yards away from UC-Berkeley campus and all UC property. (Video and transcript below.) YVETTE FELARCA: My name is Yvette Felarca, and I’m with [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Movement celebrates victory today: UC-Berkeley chancellor forced to resign Students also demand that Birgeneau withdraw the criminal charges filed against Nov. 9 protesters before he leaves PRESS CONFERENCE Tuesday, March 13th, 3:30pm MLK Student Union, outside Tully’s Cafe (Bancroft + Telegraph, Berkeley) BAMN and other movement activists will hold a press conference [...]

¡LUCHA PARA SALVAR A NUESTRAS ESCUELAS Y SALVAR NUESTRAS VECINDADES!   MARCHA & MANIFESTACION EN “DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF,” lunes, 12 de marzo a las 4pm  4555 John C. Lodge Fwy. Detroit, MI 48201, la esquina de Lodge y Forest   Únase a BAMN para organizar acción directa en masa liderada por jóvenes: ¡MANTENGAMOS [...]

Double Black, Latina/o, and Native American Student Enrollment in UC Restore Affirmative Action & Overturn Prop 209 9th Circuit Hearing on Prop 209: Monday, Feb. 13th, 8:30AM 9th Circuit Court of Appeals 95 – 7th St. (at Mission), S.F. (near Civic Center BART) California’s majority black, Latina/o, and Native American students are being systematically denied [...]