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March Today, March Tomorrow and Keep Fighting Until we Win! On Friday, May 25, 2012, over 200 students walked out of Cesar Chavez Academy (CCA) Middle School and High School to demand a stop to the racist treatment of students from CCA. The inspiration of the walkouts at CCA did not start with CCA, but [...]

(See the FLYER for the Campaign to Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment in UC) 10:30PM – Throughout the evening, protesters chanted at the UCLA police station “Let them go!” and “No segregation in UC, Our people must go free!” The mood was festive, and passersby expressed support and took flyers. The last arrestee was released at [...]

BAMN is proud to count among its members both rank and file workers and elected officials in unions representing public workers (AFSCME), health care workers (SEIU) and teachers (NEA/AFT). These BAMN union activists are fighting for internal union democracy, rank and file control, and a militant fight against management based on unleashing the sleeping lion [...]

Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at the University of California! BUILD THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NEW INDEPENDENT INTEGRATED YOUTH-LED CIVIL AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORGANIZE AND LEAD MASS-MILITANT ACTIONS TO WIN OUR DEMANDS. 3:00pm at Murphy hall outside main entrance We demand: Save Dr. King’s Dream for America in California Save the Promise of Equality Embodied [...]

Hi, my name is Hannah Albaseer and I was one of many of the minorities that applied to UC Berkeley and was denied. One of the greatest basketball players once said, “I can accept failure–everyone fails. But I won’t accept not trying.” And turning my back with my head hung over the denied letter from UC Berkeley [...]

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 [...]

Thirty people, including black, Latina/o and other underrepresented minority students who were rejected admission to UC-Berkeley and UCLA, began occupying UC-Berkeley’s undergraduate admissions office (in Sproul Hall) at 3:30pm today (Friday, May 11). They are committed to staying until there is a concrete change in UC-Berkeley’s admissions policy now, which admits dramatically low numbers of [...]

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,” [...]

On April 25, at 10:55am, the brave students of Southwestern High School, ignoring the opposition and threats from their principle, teachers and parents, burst through the doors of the school, walked out and marched through southwest Detroit to neighboring Western High School to keep their school open. They were joined by almost 200 students from [...]

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 [...]

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