Press Room

Al-Jazeera Reports on BAMN's Fight to Defend Public Education in Detroit
Al-Jazeera interviews several BAMN activists and reports on the attack on public education in Detroit.

MAINTAIN AN ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD FOR DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NO TO MAYORAL CONTROL
Monday, June 14th at 4pm in the offices of the Detroit Board of Education at New Center One there will be a press conference announcing a campaign to defeat efforts to abolish the right of Detroit voters

SIT-IN at Michigan Governor's Office to Oust Detroit Dictator Robert Bobb
BAMN led a sit-in to demand that Governor Granholm meet with Detroiters regarding the removal of Detroit school finance manager Robert Bobb, who is shutting down and privatizing Detroit public schools.

PRESS RELEASE: BAMN Files Historic Lawsuit to Overturn Propsition 209 and Restore Affirmative Action in California
Read the press release. Press conferences at UC-Berkeley and UCLA.

Press Release: "UC-Berkeley students condemn ceiling on underrepresented minority student admits"
Wed, Apr. 8, 2:30PM at UC-Berkeley's California Hall.

Press Release: "Oakland students boycott school and march May 1st to demand DREAM Act & justice for Oscar Grant"

Los Angeles victory! Students win honoring of the César Chávez Holiday in LAUSD!
Student walkouts and building the movement have succeeded at winning the actual honoring the Chávez Holiday by the L.A. public schools!

Press Release: "Independent public tribunal to investigate the killing of Oscar Grant"
Wed, Mar. 4, 7:00PM at Oakland's Allen Temple Baptist Church.

Press Release: "Community supporters, Oscar Grant's family, and friends march on Oscar Grant's birthday"
Fri, Feb. 27, 4:30PM at Hayward BART station (in Oscar Grant's hometown).

Press Release: "Oscar Grant's killer released - District attorney engaged in cover-up"
BAMN announces plan for independent public tribunal.

Press Release: "Oakland students demand that City Council pass resolution to jail all of Oscar Grant's killers, disarm BART police, keep BART police out of Oakland, and convene a public hearing to investigate the killing"
Tues, Jan. 20, 5:30PM press conference, 6:00PM city council

Press Release: "Day Without a Gay - local rallies to undo Prop 8 and pass Dream Act"
Dec. 10: 12PM rally and march at UC-Berkeley. 4PM press conference at Oakland City Hall.

Press Release: "Students denounce Dream Act veto, pledge to continue fight for undocumented students' rights"
Press Conference Oct. 1st, 11:15AM at UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza

Total Victory in Arizona!
Ward Connerly's "Ground Zero" Campaign Against Affirmative Action Turns to Quicksand.

BAMN Victory in Arizona!
Arizona Civil Rights Initiative disqualified for the Nov. 2008 ballot!

Media Fact Sheet: The Campaign to Keep the Fraudulent "Arizona Civil Rights Initiative" Off the Ballot
Court decisions, findings, and other essential information on Ward Connerly and the anti-affirmative-action effort.

Mar. 13th: UC-Berkeley Day of Action to Eliminate the SAT
Rally and March at Sproul Plaza

US Supreme Court Renders Brown v. Board of Education a Dead Letter

New Movement Takes a Stand to Defend Brown
December 4, 2006 March on Washington

Undo Proposal 2! The ban on affirmative action in Michigan will not stand
5-Point Plan of Action

Stop the Fraud! Stop Prop 2! (MCRI)

Judge Tarnow finds: "MCRI engaged in systematic voter fraud" - refuses injunction
Operation King's Dream lawsuit in federal court against MCRI

Federal Suit Filed to Stop the Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot
Press conference

State heading for dishonest elections
Lansing State Journal

This is the birth of a new civil rights movement.

Este es el Nacimiento de un Movimiento Nuevo Para Los Derechos Civiles.

Public Inquiry to Investigate Hostile Climate for Underrepresented Minority Students at UC-Berkeley

Michigan Court of Appeals Ruling Sanctions Racially-Targeted Fraud in Michigan Elections
Right-wing judges and MCRI insult the memory of Rosa Parks

BAMN's Call to Action

Racially targeted fraud has no place in Michigan elections

Connerly Exposed - Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Challenged
BAMN/Operation King's Dream file legal challenge with Board of Canvassers

BAMN Program to Resolve the Crisis of the Detroit Public Schools

The people of Detroit have spoken: Burnley must go

Statement on Ward Connerly's departure from the UC Regents

Daily Californian - Opinion: Raising The Minimum GPA Not the Solution
Yvette Felarca, BAMN

Build a Campaign to Stop the Racist Border Patrol Raids

March on Washington on May 15 to Realize the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education and Defend Affirmative Action

Michigan AG puts personal anti-affirmative action political agenda above Michigan's voters

Victory! - Judge Throws Out Anti-Affirmative Action Petitions
Connerly Effort on the Ropes in Michigan

Defeat Proposition 54!

Student Defendants in Grutter v. Bollinger and April 1st March Organizers Declare Victory for Affirmative Action at Supreme Court

How to Respond to the US Supreme Court's Decisions In the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases

This is a Fight for Full Integration and Equality; Why Brown v. Board of Education is at Stake
Distributed at the April 1, 2003 March on Washingotn

No to the War - Yes to Affirmative Action

The Truth Must Be Told
The Student Defendants Must Be Heard!

BAMN Declaration against the War in Iraq

Bush Urges Supreme Court to Outlaw Affirmative Action and Effectively Kill Brown v. Board of Education

Civil rights organizations call for march and rally at the U.S. Supreme Court to save Brown v. Board of Education and defend affirmative action and integration

The Proposed New California Master Plan: Setback to the Right to Higher Education

Eliminating the SAT I and Creating a Non-Discriminatory Admissions Policy
Report to the Regents of the Univ. of California

Press conference announcing Victory in the Federal Appeals Court and March on Washington for Affirmative Action & Integration

No Cuts No Layoffs Coalition claims victory in rescinding of school social worker layoffs

Declaration of the Campaign to Eliminate the SAT and Increase Underrepresented Minority Enrollment in the UC System Now

Why the next UM president must be an unequivocal, explicit proponent of affirmative action

Build the New Civil Rights Movement! Join BAMN!
Distributed at the Dec. 6, 2001 Cincinnati Demonstration

Detroit Students Demand Right to Attend Affirmative Action Appeals Hearing

Call Against Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Bigotry and War Hysteria

Now is the time to reverse the resegregation of the UC!
Where do we go from last May's historic victory of reversing the ban on affirmative action?

Oakland Tribune - A Victory for Affirmative Action
Ronald Cruz, BAMN

Statewide Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Attacks
UC System

Statewide Declaration of Action on March 8th to Reverse the Ban on Affirmative Action in the UC System Now

Detroit Free Press - Miranda Massie: U-M students will turn tide in affirmative action fight
Opinion Column

Reverse the Ban On Affirmative Action in the UC System Now!

Stop the Anti-Gay Knight Initiative/Proposition 22

Student Defendants Launch National Speaking Tour
Black, Latino and Other Minority Students Join Legal Defense of Affirmative Action at University of Michigan

Strike to Win Quality Education
Detroit teachers strike

Pro-Affirmative Action Forces to Join University of Michigan Litigation In Reversal of Federal Court Orders

Black, Latino, and other minority students' Federal Appeals hearing for right to participate in affirmative action challenge
Appeals argument follows extraordinary grant of a stay of the proceedings in the District Court

Demand that the School Board and the NAACP Withdraw from the Resegregation Settlement!
Lowell High School, San Francisco desegregation plan

Lessons of the Struggle to Defend Ethnic Studies
Action Proposal

On the New Student Movement at UC Berkeley
Contributions to an Ongoing Discussion from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), University of Michigan - Lessons from the Struggle for Ethnic Studies

Reponse letter submission to New York Times Magazine article, "The End of Affirmative Action"
Jessica Curtin and Erika Dowdell, BAMN, DAAP

Stop the Resegregation of San Francisco Public Schools
Defend the Gains Toward Equal, Integrated, Quality Education

Reality Check on the New UC Admissions Numbers

Rescind SP-1 and SP-2; Restore Affirmative Action Now; Force Gray Davis to Appoint Pro-Affirmative Action UC Regents
Press conference and speakout at UC Regents meeting

Daily Californian - Reponse letter on UC professors' October 21/22 walkout
Heather Bergman, BAMN

Admit the 800
Build a United Student Movement to Defend Affirmative Action

Defend Affirmative Action! No Resegregation of Higher Education!
University of Michigan flyer

"Censored by the Daily Cal" Letter

Daily Californian - Letter to the Editor
On Chancellor Tien and compliance with Prop. 209

Newly Organized Coalition Kicks Off Opposition to Regents' Attack on Affirmative Action