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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. [...]

VICTORY! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS AGAIN LEGAL IN MICHIGAN! RALLY & MARCH Friday, December 7 Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Reinstate Affirmative Action Programs NOW at ALL Michigan Universities! Sign the Petition! On November 15th the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Proposition 2 unconstitutional in the case brought by BAMN (The Coalition to Defend [...]

THE ANATOMY OF A VICTORY On Thursday, October 4, AFSCME Local 207, the city of Detroit’s largest union that represents water and sewage workers, won its five-day strike. The Local 207 Executive Board ended the strike after signing a deal with the Water Department management that addressed the issues that the union had gone on [...]

All fired workers will be reinstated to their jobs Victory won on the most important issues that led to the strike Today, after further negotiations with DWSD management, Local 207 President John Riehl is proud to announce that the Local 207 Executive Board voted to end our strike today. Riehl said that the strike was [...]

SIGN AND CIRCULATE THE PETITION TO GRANT ASYLUM TO MFJ LEADERS TACKO, PROSCOVIA, & ASUMAN Many of you will have signed the petition calling for asylum for Tacko, Asuman, Andrew, and Proscovia -gay Ugandan and Senegalese asylum seekers and tireless leaders of the fight for equality and justice in Britain and around the world… On June [...]

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,” [...]

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and the Friends of the Monteith Library celebrate our victory and announce to the community that the Lincoln Library has reopened. When the Library Commission closed four library branches last December 22, BAMN led an occupation [...]

You all took action to prevent Edy’s deportation; thousands signed petitions, wrote letters & articles, blogged, demonstrated and spread the word.   His case became famous – a cause for people fighting to reverse the racism, homophobia and hypocrisy of an immigration system that has been prepared to deport so many to pain and death. Edy was talked [...]

MATT WILLIAMS for ASUC President #115 and Senate #142 Visit VOTEDAAP.ORG “I’ve been to jail twice around this fight for public education, and next time I go I want it to be as ASUC president.” – Matt Williams MATT WILLIAMS, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP) candidate for UC-Berkeley’s ASUC president, won the debate hosted by [...]

BAMN Press Release 4/2/2012: BAMN and UC-Berkeley student-government parties celebrate victory today against stay-away orders on Occupy Cal defendants They demand end to remainder of political witch-hunt: Drop the charges on the Berkeley 13 now! PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY MONDAY, APRIL 2, 3:15PM Press conference moved to UC-Berkeley’s Sproul Hall steps for defendants to celebrate victory [...]