ALL OUT to Supreme Court May 15: defend birthright citizenship!
BAMN is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his fascist movement by any means necessary. This moment in history calls for bold leaders who are prepared to stand on the truth and lead in action. BAMN exists to develop the conscious political method needed to turn our struggles into fights that CAN WIN, learning both from the successes and mistakes of our own struggles, and from the most successful leaders of mass movements like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass.
We must build an integrated, youth-led, mass, militant new civil rights and immigrant rights movement. Our movement can have much greater power than Trump’s fascist movement, but we must unite the struggles against racism, to stop deportations, for full citizenship rights for immigrants with and without papers, for freedom of speech and defense of democracy, for LGBT+ equality, for women’s equality, for victory to the Palestinian struggle, and to solve the climate crisis, together with a revitalized militant labor movement. Our movement is integrated and international, and we are fighting for fundamental equality and freedom for all of humanity, for a new kind of society. We are fighting to put the oppressed in power.
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“An American Catastrophe: Fascism Comes to America”
The American Election 2024: a Capitalist Tyranny, Led by Donald Trump, aided and abetted by a servile, bankrupt two-party system
A Republican Party that is simply becoming a fascist party under Trump
vs.
The Democratic Party:
–too weak, hypocritical, and corrupted by its own billionaire donors/owners, incapable of Defending and Advancing Democracy and Equal Rights in America,
–Committed to arming the ethnic cleansing and genocide carried out by the Netanyahu government of Israel against the heroic Palestinian people
NO MORE NORMALIZING TRUMP!
NO MORE LEGITIMIZING FASCISM!
WE MUST DEFEND THIS –
We hold these truths to be self-evident: THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARECREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY !!
Trump’s movement exists to undermine and destroy these democratic principles.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES MUST RISE UP TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
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BAMN featured in HBO’s “Eyes on the Prize”
HBO’s “Eyes on the Prize III” highlights BAMN’s pivotal role defending affirmative action in the historic Grutter v. Bollinger University of Michigan Law School case, making the most compelling legal case in the courtroom and mobilizing 75,000 young people to march in Washington, D.C. April 1, 2003 on the day the Supreme Court heard oral arguments. This forced the Republican-dominated Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action. BAMN’s fight to stop the resegregation of higher education and defend the promise of Brown v. Board of Education continues to this day.
Link to HBO’s Eyes on the Prize III, Episode 5
BAMN in the Courts
BAMN is waging legal battles on the front lines to give the movement opportunities to stop Trump’s drive toward fascism, including his effort to carry out a racist ethnic cleansing and to attack democracy in America, through deportations and attacking birthright citizenship. BAMN’s method of combining an aggressive legal strategy with building the mass movement is unique and is the way to victory.
“Facing deportations, Iraqi refugees cut tethers” (Detroit News 8/8/2019) – highlighting the work of BAMN including attorney Shanta Driver in defending Iraqi refugees
BAMN represents pro-Palestine students in historic free speech lawsuit
BAMN’s legal team is conducting the ONLY CASE IN THE COUNTRY where the pro-Palestine movement will have the opportunity to present academic research and student testimony, to set the precedent that pro-Palestine speech is NOT antisemitic and is fighting for victory to the Palestinian struggle. BAMN is representing a diverse group of Muslim, Jewish, and other UC-Berkeley pro-Palestine students who have WON the right to be co-defendants alongside the University, to defend against a federal lawsuit brought by the pro-Trump, pro-Netanyahu Brandeis Center. This right-wing, extremist lawsuit aims to silence criticism of Israel and U.S. foreign policy under the false claim that it is “anti-semitic.” Like BAMN’s successful intervention and March on Washington for the affirmative action Grutter v. Bollinger case, this case will set a national precedent and is an opportunity to build, defend, strengthen the movement.
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