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EMERGENCY FUNDING NEEDED! HELP SPONSOR A BUS! 
or sponsor one or more students to get to the
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON!
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Make your donation at:
http://www.bamn.com/wdc/sponsor-a-bus.asp

     WITH ONE WEEK LEFT until April 1st, momentum for the 
National Civil Rights March on Washington is building rapidly. 
Every day, more and more college and high school students are 
contacting us, eager to go to the March, but lack transportation 
funds to get to Washington, DC.

     Students need your help now! Your financial support could 
help students like:

*  Eduardo Garcia, a high school senior from DeBakey High School
in Houston, Texas, and fifteen of his fellow students, and
Mattilyn Merrell and students from Texas Woman's University, who
need $240 each for plane tickets to attend the march. President
Bush's claims that "percent plans" currently used in Texas's
public universities can substitute for affirmative action is a
lie. In a state that has a majority Mexican-American and black
youth population, Texas A&M University, the largest public
institution in the country, has a student body that is 2% black
and 8% Latino.

* Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) are organizing to come to the march but need your help
now to get there. Tversa Ricks and 65 other students at Clark
Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia and Linice White and 70
students from Coppin State College in Baltimore are eager to get
on a bus. Your donation would ensure that these students could
attend the March on April 1.

* In the Midwest, Fatmata Bangura-Smith has been organizing
fellow law students at the most integrated law school in the
country, Cooley Law School in western Michigan. Fifty students
want to go to the march, but they need $3000 for a bus to get
there. Thirty people sending $100 each could bring the Cooley Law
School contingent to the March.

* High school, university, and law students throughout the state
of California need your help to attend the march. The loss of
affirmative action programs in California is leading rapidly to
the  re-creation of segregated, and separate and unequal
educational opportunities for California's majority minority
student population. Janelle Orsi and over 50 students from the
Claremont Colleges need your generous contribution to make it to
the march.

     Don't let the lack of funds prevent us from having the
massive demonstration of support that we need to defend
affirmative action.

     Make your TAX-DEDUCTIBLE donation online at
http://www.bamn.com/wdc/sponsor-a-bus.asp or send a check or 
money order to:

          United for Equality and Affirmative Action 
              Legal Defense Fund
          PO Box 24462
          Kensington Station
          Detroit, Michigan 48224
     
     You can sponsor students or student contingents from the
location of your choice and have your contribution posted on the
BAMN website.

     We are standing at a crossroads. You have an
opportunity - right now - to affect the course of history.
Please don't let this moment slip away.


- Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration,
  And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
  www.bamn.com - letters@bamn.com - 3/18/03

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NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Defend Affirmative Action! Save Brown v. Board of Education!
APRIL 1, 2003 - WASHINGTON, DC - Rally starts at 9AM
at the Supreme Court - E. Capitol & 1st Street NE
For more info, see http://www.bamn.com
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