BAMN- Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary

What is it?

• “a mass, democratic, integrated, national organization dedicated to building a new mass civil rights movement to defend affirmative action, integration, and the other gains of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and to advance the struggle for equality in American society by any means necessary”

Participants include:

-Local groups, communities, youth, schools (those who commit themselves to BAMN)

• “BAMN will be independent of the Democrats and Republicans and of governments and school and university administrations. In any elections, BAMN will consider supporting only those candidates, slates, and parties whose support for affirmative action and the struggle of the new movement for equality is explicit and unequivocal.” ?

-defends immigrants’ rights

“BAMN is committed to making real America's founding declaration that "all men are created equal." Real equality of rights and opportunities for women and for disadvantaged black, Latina/o, Native American, Asian Pacific American, Arab American, and other minorities requires active, positive measures, a national policy of affirmative action. American society can overcome its fundamental inequalities only if positive measures are taken to transform it into what it should be.”

(Gallery on website is a timeline of events- August 1995- March 2006)

Recent Events/ Upcoming Events:

May 1, 2006: Oakland, California

Strike! No more second-class treatment?No Jim Crow/anti-immigrant laws?Full and equal rights for immigrants?Defend affirmative action and integration?No more separate and unequal educational opportunities?Build the new mass, integrated civil rights movement May 26-28, 2006: Los Angeles, California

National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement

April 1999- Tribunal on racism and sexism at the Univ. of Michigan