Last Wednesday the Oakland School Board voted 5-2 to begin the first phase of a multi-year plan to shut down...
Author: BAMN (BAMN Admin)
31.102011November 1, 2011

All Out for the Oakland General Strike Wednesday, November 2!
By BAMNIn Defend Public Education, Immigrant Rights, Police Brutality and Corruption, Stop Deportations! Sanctuary for Immigrants!Tags black power, General Strike, mass occupation, mass resistance, Mayor Jean Quan, no school closures, oakland, Oakland School Board, Occupy Oakland, oscar grant, police brutality, sanctuary for immigrants
Mayor Jean Quan Must Go! Jail the Cops Responsible for Attacking Protesters! Mass Convergence on 14th Street and Broadway 9:00...
27.102011October 31, 2011

BAMN Continues Legal Battle to Defend Michigan’s Affirmative Action Victory!
By BAMNIn Affirmative Action and K-12 IntegrationTags affirmative action, BAMN v. Regents of the University of Michigan, college admissions criteria, equality, Prop 2, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, test scores
Excerpts From the Brief Yesterday, BAMN’s legal team at Scheff, Washington & Driver filed the legal brief in defense of our victory last...
25.102011October 25, 2011

Edson Cosmas: An Immigrant’s Victory against Deportation
By BAMNIn Immigrant Rights, LGBTTags anti-gay, asylum, Britain, courts, deportation, detention, gay rights, immigrant rights, law, LGBT, Tanzania, torture
Anatomy of a Victory for All Immigrants Movement for Justice/BAMN won an important victory for all immigrants in stopping Edson...
18.102011October 25, 2011

LA students gear up for Day of Action to overturn Prop 209
By BAMNIn Affirmative Action and K-12 IntegrationTags affirmative action, black, day of action, decline in minority enrollment, educational opportunity, high school student organizing, Latina/o, los angeles, Native American, New Jim Crow, Prop 209, white privilege
Restoring Affirmative Action in California [button link=”https://www.bamn.com/donate” color=”red”]Sponsor a Student![/button]Students, activists, teachers, professors, elected officials, civil rights groups and others...
15.102011October 25, 2011

Argument for Affirmative Action Part 2
By BAMNIn Affirmative Action and K-12 Integration, Hostile Campus ClimateTags admissions, affirmative action, GPA, grade point average, higher education, inequality, integration, race-neutral, racism, segregation, separate and unequal, sexism
The Myth of Meritocracy, continued Why GPA is not a race-neutral admissions criterion From Kindergarten through...