About BAMN

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is building the new civil rights movement. We are a primarily student- and youth-based organization of leaders in our schools and communities, committed to making real the promises of American democracy and equality.

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BAMN is building the movement to end Jim Crow, second-class treatment of black people and other minorities and immigrants, documented and undocumented. We are building a united mass, integrated civil rights movement that will unite black and brown, gay and straight, to win full freedom and equality for all. We are fighting to defend public education, to defeat budget cuts for education, to defend public jobs and public services, to win college financial aid and citizenship for undocumented immigrant students, and  to make every school, college, city, municipality and state a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. BAMN is also fighting to build a new, international youth leadership for the environmental movement.

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• Affirmative Action
• Public Education
• LGBT
• Immigrants Rights
• Labor Movement
• Climate Change

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BAMN PLEDGE TO BECOME A LEADER OF THE NEW, INDEPENDENT, INTEGRATED, YOUTH-LED CIVIL RIGHTS/IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT
BAMN PRINCIPLES

Liberator: Journal for the Emerging Civil Rights Movement:

Liberator 9: MAKE THE FEDERAL DREAM ACT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT A REALITY IN OCTOBER 2010

Liberator 8: Call to Action for Young Leaders of the New Civil Rights Movement

Liberator 7: THE OBAMA ERA—RENEWAL OF KING’S DREAM OR A NEW JIM CROW? BAMN’S CALL FOR REAL HOPE

Liberator 6: How to Defeat Anti-Affirmative Action Referendums

Liberator 5: Founding a New Civil Rights Movement

Liberator 4: Argument for Affirmative Action

Liberator 3: A Brief Balance Sheet of the National Struggle to Defend Affirmative Action

Liberator 2: The Struggle for Women’s Equality and the Fight for Affirmative Action

Liberator 1: Why and How We Must Defend Affirmative Action

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BAMN Files Lawsuit Against UC-Berkeley for Police Brutality at “Occupy Cal” Protest

November 29, 2011

Video: UCLA Occupiers Speak Out!

June 3, 2012

BAMN Detroit Occupies Libraries to Save Them from Closure!

December 22, 2011

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• Victory to the Students at Cesar Chavez Academy!
• Video: UCLA Occupiers Speak Out!
• BAMN Occupies UCLA Admissions Office to Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment
• BAMN Union Leaders Fight for Affirmative Action, Public Education & Immigrant Rights
• Open Letter from BAMN Union Organizer re Kaiser Contract Vote