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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 [...]

On Friday, June 1, 2012, several dozen students and civil rights activists participated in a BAMN-organized occupation of the UCLA admissions office to demand: Double Latina/o, black and other underrepresented minority student enrollment Admit more Latina/o, black, and other underrepresented minority students including some of the students we are submitting (on appeal). Reopen the Appeals [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why YOU should vote DAAP for ASUC: Visit the DAAP website at goDAAP.org We are the voice of the new movement. We are bold and do not fear confrontation; and we are anti-racist and pro-immigrant rights. We pledge to fight to keep our university a public institution and to defend the California Master Plan from [...]

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