BAMN - Stop Ward Connerly and Defend Affirmative Action!

UPDATES: Affirmative Action


3/10/2010	Open Letter to the UC-San Diego Black Student Union and to All Students Fighting Racist Attacks and Racist Exclusion in UC and Standing in Defense of Public Education Congratulations and perspectives.
2/22/2010	Tuesday, February 23 - RALLY AT UC BERKELEY noon at Sproul Plaza Win a UC-Wide Dream Scholarship Program: Financial Aid for Undocumented Immigrant Students! Restore Affirmative Action and Overturn Prop 209!
2/21/2010	News coverage of BAMN's new lawsuit against Prop 209 in California
2/16/2010	BAMN Files Historic Lawsuit to Overturn Proposition 209 and Restore Affirmative Action in California Read the complaint filed in federal court.
2/15/2010	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.

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ESSENTIAL

Ward Connerly: Spokesperson for the Campaign to Resegregate America

Fact Sheet: "Who Is Ward Connerly?"
(VIDEO) The Deposition of Ward Connerly - BAMN questions Connerly under oath for the Proposal 2 litigation. Full transcript [DOC file]
(VIDEO) Connerly tells CNN: "If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right, God bless them. Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied instead of hate."
"Connerly and Sander: Promoting an Ideology of Racism" - Flyer distributed at Connerly forum in UCLA

Connerly's Method of Racially-Targeted Voter Fraud

Argument for Affirmative Action

(VIDEO) BAMN debate with right-wing author Mason Weaver (UC-Berkeley, 2005)
(VIDEO) BAMN debate with co-author of California's Proposition 209 (UC-Berkeley, 2004)
Myths & Facts 1
Myths & Facts 2
Fact Sheet 1
Fact Sheet 2 [PDF file]
Why We Must Eliminate the SAT (on the sources and significance of standardized testing bias in college admissions)
Asian Pacific Americans & Affirmative Action (Excerpt from the Grutter testimony of Frank Wu)
Outline of BAMN's groundbreaking case for affirmative action in the Grutter v. Bollinger trial [full trial transcript]

BAMN is continuing the struggle to win full integration and equality in American society. Currently, BAMN is combating Ward Connerly's effort to get white-majority electorates to outlaw affirmative action through state ballot initiatives. In August 2008, BAMN succeeded at keeping Connerly's initiative out of Arizona, after having defeated him in Missouri and Oklahoma earlier that year. BAMN is conducting a federal challenge against Michigan's Proposal 2, to strike down as unconstitutional statewide affirmative action bans in Michigan and across the country.

ALL OUT TO CINCINNATI NOVEMEMBER TUESDAY NOVEMEBER 17th

Restore Affirmative Action in California, Michigan, and Across the Nation!

BAMN is organizing a nationwide movement to win a federal lawsuit challenging Michigan's anti-affirmative-action constitutional amendment, Proposal 2. If we build the movement, we can win this lawsuit, which would lead to the overturn of Michigan's Proposal 2, California's Proposition 200, and other state bans on affirmative action nationally.

National Campaign to Overturn Michigan's Proposal 2!

(VIDEO) BAMN's deposition of Ward Connerly - BAMN interrogates the head of the Proposal 2 campaign under oath.
BAMN's brief to overturn Proposal 2 [PDF file]
Summary of BAMN's legal argument. [DOC file]
Do the following

Form a BAMN chapter. Contact BAMN. Hold a meeting and vote on BAMN's principles.
Invite BAMN to your campus. Hold a forum to organize your campus and invite BAMN as a speaker. Get your school, academic department, and/or student government to co-sponsor.
Organize a debate including BAMN and an anti-affirmative action speaker. Work in conjunction with other organizations..
Make a donation.

California

BAMN is building the movement to overturn the ban on affirmative action, Proposition 209, and to increase underrepresented minority student enrollment at the University of California

Eliminating the SAT
- Fact Sheet: "Why We Must Eliminate the SAT"
- BAMN Report to the UC Regents: "Eliminating the S.A.T. I and Creating a Non-Discriminatory Admissions Policy" [PDF file]
BAMN is organizing public hearings at the UC campuses on the rise in racism, isolation, and hostile climate for underrepresented minority students that has resulted from ending affirmative action. At UC-Berkeley and UCLA, students have given powerful testimony, and they have formed a basis for combating racism and sexism and winning change at the university level. Organize a public hearing at your campus. Contact BAMN today.

EXCERPTS from 1st UC-Berkeley public hearing November 2005. [Adobe PDF file]
VIDEO from 3rd UC-Berkeley public hearing April 2007

In May 2001, the new civil rights movement won a victory and forced the University of California Regents to reverse their ban on affirmative action

Arizona

With few resources, BAMN succeeded at defeating Connerly's multi-million dollar effort to place an anti-affirmative-action initiative on the fall 2008 ballot. It is a model for how to defeat right-wing ballot initiatives across the country. See the Stop ACRI Page.