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CALL TO ACTION: Deal Ward Connerly & the Segregationists a NATIONAL Defeat!
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11th National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement
Sponsored by BAMN. Fri-Sun, May 23-25, 2008. UCLA Covel Commons Building. More info will be posted soon. Register today! Contact BAMN
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FREE THE JENA SIX!
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In Defense of Brown v. Board and Affirmative Action
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May 4 , 2008
MARCH IN BERKELEY:
Stop the Deportation of the Berkeley Family:
No More Raids and Deportations!
Berkeley and Oakland Are Sanctuary Communities!
The recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Bay Area are an attack on our communities and must be stopped. On Friday, May 2, the day after thousands of people marched through Oakland in support of immigrant rights, sixty-three Latina/o immigrants were detained from cities around the Bay, including San Francisco. The following Tuesday, ICE agents picked up a parent of an Oakland school student and entered the home of a Berkeley High School alumni and his family -- insulting, arresting, and detaining mothers and grandparents...
The ICE's attempt to make immigrant and Latina/o students feel scared, isolated, and vulnerable and to divide our schools and communities completely backfired. Our direct action prevented the ICE from picking up students or kidnapping their parents. Instead of demoralizing or dividing us, the ICE action united us...
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May 4 , 2008
Ward Connerly Defeated!
Affirmative Action is Preserved in Missouri!
On May 4, 2008, the new civil rights movement scored a great victory against the political forces that are trying to resegregate our nation. For months, right-wing racist forces, such as the anti-immigrant Minute Men, the Klan and others, aligned with Ward Connerly gathered petition signatures to try to qualify their anti-affirmative action measure for the Missouri ballot this November. Today they failed to turn in their petitions to the Secretary of State by the deadline.
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APRIL 25, 2008
CALL TO ACTION:
Deal Ward Connerly & the Segregationists a NATIONAL Defeat!
Fresh out of the victory in Oklahoma, BAMN calls on students and activists all across the country who stand for equality and integration to join BAMN in Missouri, Arizona and Nebraska over the next 6 weeks in "Operation King's Dream"—an all-out effort to keep America on the road to social equality and progress.
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APRIL 5, 2008
VICTORY IN OKLAHOMA!
Fraud Exposed, Connerly Withdraws Signatures!
One Down, Four to Go...
"BAMN (The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary), the national organization that has led the fight against Ward Connerly, and AWAKE (All Working to Keep and Achieve Equality), an organization that led the fight against Connerly's fraud in Oklahoma, forced the Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative (OCRI) to withdraw its petition to place an anti-affirmative action referendum on the Oklahoma ballot in 2008. . ."
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APRIL 1, 2008
César Chávez Day of Action a Big Success!
REPORT AND NEWS COVERAGE
On Monday, March 31, 2008, students boycotted, rallied and marched all over California demanding that the state's official César Chávez Holiday be honored by school districts holding assemblies and closing across the state. The day of action got widespread news coverage, and Barack Obama joined the movement's call for César Chávez's birthday to be established as a national holiday.
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