Prop 209

On the morning of the Supreme Court’s announcement to hear BAMN’s challenge to state anti-affirmative-action bans, BAMN held press conferences in Detroit, MI, Berkeley CA, and Los Angeles CA welcoming the decision and calling on the new civil rights and immigrant rights movement to march on Washington April 10 for immigrant rights and on the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — March 25, 2013 United States Supreme Court Grants Review of Decision Striking Down Michigan’s Ban on Affirmative Action Case Can Overturn California’s Proposition 209 and All State Bans on Affirmative Action The United States Supreme Court today granted review of the Sixth Circuit’s decision striking down Michigan’s anti-affirmative action ballot proposal. [...]

Press Release 11/15/2012: BAMN HAILS SIXTH CIRCUIT DECISION STRIKING DOWN MICHIGAN’S BAN ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASE HEADED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT: BAMN to argue for overturn of California’s Prop 209, Michigan’s Prop 2, and similar anti-affirmative-action state ballot initiatives before High Court Sixth Circuit ruling 11/15/2012 (PDF) BAMN brief to Sixth Circuit 10/25/2011 (PDF) The entire [...]

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 [...]

All Out to Cincinnati on March 7th! On March 7th at 1pm in Cincinnati,Ohio the full panel of 17 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges will review their peers’ ruling that the ban on race-conscious admissions in Michigan is illegal and that affirmative action must be restored. The presence of hundreds of affirmative action supporters inside and [...]

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 [...]

Eight amicus (“friend of the Court”) briefs have been filed in support of the BAMN legal challenge to Prop 2. Briefs were filed by the following parties:  1) The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, (2) Committee of Law Professors and Constitutional Historians, (3) California Social Science Researchers and Admissions Experts; (4) the cities of Oakland and San Francisco and the counties [...]

MAKE DR. KING’S DREAM REAL AT UC-BERKELEY AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA DAY OF ACTION: Overturn Prop 209 and Restore Affirmative Action! Thursday, November 3rd 10am – Forum: Affirmative Action 101 – First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way, 1 block west of Telegraph) 12pm – RALLY at Sproul Plaza (UCB), March at 1pm 7pm – [...]

Restoring Affirmative Action in California Students, activists, teachers, professors, elected officials, civil rights groups and others are gearing up for the November 2nd Day of Action to Overturn Prop 209 and Restore Affirmative Action in California. Shian Brandolino (right), BAMN student organizer at King/Drew Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles is leading up the [...]

The situation in the University of California is at a crisis point, and everything must be done to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment now. Governor Jerry Brown should have signed SB 185, which urged public universities to consider race and gender in admissions to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment. However, Governor Brown’s veto message also [...]