UC Berkeley

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

MEDIA RELEASE: The UC-Berkeley library occupiers won their demand to fully restore  the library hours to Fall 2011 levels and hire a full-time new librarian to permanently staff these hours. At about 7:30PM Saturday night, the administration signed a written agreement that fully met the occupation’s demands. The administration signed the following agreement: “1. On Monday, January [...]

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At the UC-Berkeley General Assembly meeting of 11/12/11, the following demands were voted on and passed as the demands of the University-wide strike that has been called for Tuesday, November 15, 2011: Local Demands Respect free speech, including the right to set up tents Immediate resignation of Robert J. Birgeneau, George Breslauer, Harry Le Grande, [...]

Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 7:00PM UC-Berkeley’s Wurster Hall, Room 102 (near Bancroft + College) Shanta Driver, lead attorney in the legal challenge against Proposition 209 and the national chair of BAMN, will speak on the federal lawsuit BAMN has filed against 209. She will address the historical significance of affirmative action, the victory her organization [...]

Public Education is a Right, Not a Privilege! Keep All Oakland Schools Open! We Won’t Go to the Back of the Bus! Say No to the New Jim Crow Keep Oakland Schools Public – No More Charters or Privatization! No “Charter Zones” in East and North Oakland! No class size increases, reduce overcrowded classes! einstate [...]