public education

Flyer en español (PDF) Justice for Terry Laffitte! – Murdered by LA County Sheriffs Jail the Killer Cops! A Badge is Not a License to Kill! Release the Officers’ Names to the Public NOW! Stop the Police Cover-Up of Terry’s Murder! Education, Jobs, and Opportunities – Not Police Murder and Terror Stop the Reconstitution and [...]

STOP THE POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT OF BRIAN CROWELL Defending the Best Political Traditions of Berkeley Requires Defending Brian Crowell Against Victimization by BUSD CONTACT THE DISTRICT TO DEMAND THEY STOP THEIR WITCH-HUNT OF MR. CROWELL (Board of Education: 510-644-6550  [email protected]; Superintendent: 510-644-6206) CONTACT BAMN TO SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN: 855-ASK-BAMN  [email protected] Veteran Berkeley High School teacher Brian [...]

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

UPDATE:  Students Pack 6/14/12 CCA Board Meeting – Advance the Fight to Force Board to ‘Decline to Renew’ Contract of Racist Teacher March Today, March Tomorrow and Keep Fighting Until we Win! On Friday, May 25, 2012, over 200 students walked out of Cesar Chavez Academy (CCA) Middle School and High School to demand a [...]

BAMN is proud to count among its members both rank and file workers and elected officials in unions representing public workers (AFSCME), health care workers (SEIU) and teachers (NEA/AFT). These BAMN union activists are fighting for internal union democracy, rank and file control, and a militant fight against management based on unleashing the sleeping lion [...]

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 power of the April 25th student walkouts from Southwestern and Western High Schools have FORCED DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts to back off on the closing of Maybury, an elementary school in Southwest Detroit that has a unique and essential bilingual educational program. Despite Roberts’ past assertions that the DPS school closings were “non-negotiable,” [...]

Mass Rally  Fight to Save our Schools and Our Neighborhoods! RESCHEDULED: THURSDAY 04/06/2012 at 5pm! 4555 John C Lodge Fwy (corner of Lodge service drive and Forest Ave) The maintenance of the Detroit Day School for the Deaf is a question of respect for the dignity of deaf students and their right to choose to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]