Contact a BAMN organizer and we'll help: Southern California 323.317.7675 Northern California 510.502.9072
1.Use MYSPACE and FACEBOOK. Add this page, make it one of your Top Friends, and change your profile "Name" so that it says "May 1 - Boycott, Rally and March for the DREAM Act"
Post this MYSPACE BULLETIN! http://www.bamn.com/mysp/090421-la-may1-bulletin.doc If you see a picture, look at the SOURCE CODE. (On Internet Explorer and Firefox, it's under the "View" menu under "Source" or "Page Source")
2. Circulate the Dream Act petition! Download the Dream Act petition: HERE!
Immediately get a group of students to help you. Hold a meeting and form a group. Invite all interested student organizations to join the effort. Set a goal of how many signatures you think you should get. Sit down with your team and read the petition out loud and have discussion about what you should say to get people to sign it. The petitions will be your way of spreading the word and organizing the strength of the students to win. The success of the day will depend on how many students know about it. You will have to talk to them to get them to sign it.
Mail a copy of completed petitions to BAMN at: BAMN PO Box 76137 Los Angeles, CA 90076
3. Make classroom announcements with the petitions! If public speaking makes you nervous, that’s ok! Being a leader means overcoming fear. Prepare what you will say. You can get a lot more signatures faster this way, and spread the word faster as well.
5. Organize a march and rally in your area on Friday, May 1! Organize contingents from your school, job or church. Pass out the flyer and gather petition signatures at your event. Let us know about your event and we'll include it on the statewide list.
6. Get organizations involved! Contact school clubs, community groups, unions (including teachers' unions), churches, etc...Get them to endorse the May 1 Day of Action and help organize.
7. Contact BAMN Let us know what you are doing and if you have any questions.
Southern California 323.317.7675 Northern California 510.502.9072
Honor California's Cesar Chavez Birthday Holiday more info:CLICK HERE!
LA Students Win César Chávez Holiday! Students Declare Victory in the fight for Recognition of the Chavez Holiday
LAUSD Board Members pass resolution making Chavez Holiday officially recognized District holiday
Spread the campaign nationwide! Send us a picture with your name and city and we'll add it!
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Wear a brown armband for Latina/o equality and freedom.
Wear a brown armband to honor the César Chávez Holiday.
Wear a brown armband for full rights for all immigrants.
Wear a brown armband to declare your state a sanctuary state.
Wear a brown armband to stop the raids.
If any administrators give you hassle, show them this Supreme Court case defending your free speech rights.
Find strips of brown material (cloth, ribbon, etc). Get your fellow students, co-workers, family, and neighbors to wear them. Put it on your arm. Wear it on your backpack. Spread the word. This is a symbol of anti-racist unity across the country.
MAKE CALIFORNIA A SANCTUARY STATE!
A society whose state resources are expended to break up families and tear mothers and fathers out of the hands of their children must be saved from its own moral depravity.
Millions of immigrants work, live and go to school under a cloud of fear every day in California - fear that federal immigration officers will drag off one of the people they love. The rank inhumanity of that policy is becoming clear to more people. The mainstream media has begun to tell the real story of families being split up and torn apart by the raids. Churches across the country have joined the sanctuary movement.
More and more municipalities throughout California have recognized officially what is increasingly obvious to millions of people: immigrants, irrespective of official status, play an integral, indispensable and overwhelmingly positive part in our state, and in our nation economically and socially. The cities across California and across the country that have officially declared themselves as sanctuary cities are simply recognizing a practical reality of modern economic life. The new civil rights movement stands at the front of the effort to achieve sanctuary status for cities and states all over. Our movement and organization stands at the front of the effort to stop the anti-immigrant raids.
People who are a contributing part of the society are citizens, regardless of where they come from, what forms they have filled out, or what government office they have waited in. The attack on Mexican and other Latin American immigrants is just bigotry and racism. The corrosive effect of having a section of people in a society with separate, unequal and inferior legal rights is unacceptable. The new immigrant rights and civil rights movement will fight and defeat any attempt to impose an inferior double standard of rights on immigrants.
We demand full and equal rights for all immigrants. We demand an end to the raids. We demand that California become a sanctuary state.
Circulate the PETITION to make California a sanctuary state. Present the petition to your local government, school board, etc. Mail copies to: BAMN / P.O. Box 76137 / Los Angeles, CA 90076
Get your city council, union, student government, church, to take a stand for California to become a sanctuary state.
BAMN Movie: "Our Rising Strength" Build the New Integrated Youth-Led Civil Rights Movement!
BAMN interview on Democracy Now!
High school students walked out across the nation on May 1st to fight for immigrant rights and for decent, quality education in our schools. Student walkout organizers from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), reported on their school walkouts to independent media center Democracy Now!.
You can WATCH or READ THE TRANSCRIPT of the news program at Democracy Now!. Click "Watch 128/256K stream" and advance the video to 28:24 to watch the BAMN interview.
JOIN BAMN! Build the New Civil Rights Movement! Add BAMN at the BAMN Myspace site! Click here:
And visit the BAMN.COM site!
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) BAMN.com Myspace.com/nationalbamn
Northern CA: 510.501.2435 Southern CA: 323.317.7675 East Coast: 313.645.9360
Mailing address:
BAMN
P.O. Box 76137
Los Angeles, CA 90076
The youth of America, who represent the hope and
aspirations for a nation free of racist prejudice, inequality and
segregation, who feel genuinely the possibility of freedom for their
families, communities, and all those facing second-class treatment,
must mobilize, march and rally on Friday, May 1st. On this day we
must march to open up educational opportunity for the Latina/o,
black, other minority and immigrant young people of America.
Students, teachers, parents and the community of Los
Angeles face layoffs of over 5,000 teachers, counselors and staff at a
time when billions of dollars of federal money are being poured into
the state of California for education. The federal stimulus money
going to education in California is supposed to be used to stop
layoffs! These layoffs are not necessary and can be stopped.
Teachers and other staff have already received pink slips and
expect to lose their jobs at the end of the year. Many of the layoffs
are in schools that can least afford cutbacks. Forty percent of the
teachers that have received pink slips are in South Central’s
majority black and Latino/a schools. These are some of our favorite
teachers; these are the teachers that teach classes that are necessary
for us to succeed in schools and in our lives; these are the counselors
that are already overburdened with too few resources working to get
us into college.
THIS MUST NOT STAND! In this new era of hope and
protest, we demand more opportunities, not less; more resources,
not less! We demand an end to the budget cuts to our public
schools! We demand that the billions of dollars going to higher
education be opened up to all no matter what country students were
born in! The DREAM Act must be passed—the hundreds of
thousands of undocumented students who will graduate high school
this year and will be admitted to colleges across the country, must
be able to receive financial aid and the rights of citizenship just like
everyone else! Our families and communities contribute greatly to
the American economy and society and have a right to the
opportunities that are created from the labor of our families and
communities. We stand shoulder to shoulder as sisters and
brothers—Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, other
minority, white, documented and undocumented—we are all
Californians!
The attacks against public education happening all across the
country always affect Latina/o, black, other minority and poor
school districts the most. It is not acceptable for America to have
elected a black president but make black, Latina/o, immigrant and
other minority young people of America suffer greater racist
inequality and segregation in our public schools. We have had
enough of unequal second-class education. May 1st must be a
beginning to organizing the youth of LA to beat back the attacks on
our education and to make the fight for equal educational
opportunities for all.
We have a great deal of power now. This year, the student
walkouts, marches, and boycotts that began in spring 2006, having
continued every year since, won official recognition of the César
Chávez Birthday Holiday in the LA Unified School District
(LAUSD)—the second largest school district in the country.
Already, the mobilizations of students, teachers, parents and the
community have decreased the layoffs from over 8,500 to 5,500.
In spring 2006, youth played a decisive role in inspiring and
leading the historic marches of millions that secured the defeat of
the anti-immigrant measure HR4437. This measure, if it had passed,
would have made the more than 12 million undocumented
immigrants in America felons. The mobilizations, led by the
Latina/o and immigrant communities, especially the youth, defeated
this attack by mobilizing the largest civil rights demonstrations in
our nation's history. They showed the enormous power of a new
civil rights movement to shape the American political agenda and
win justice and progress for all the oppressed and downtrodden. To
defeat the new Jim Crow and win equality and dignity, the youth of
our country must take the lead again.
To win, we must make May 1st a day of powerful mass
action. This will happen only if the Latina/o, black and immigrant
youth and student leaders of the new civil rights movement take the
lead and make it happen. We can defeat these attacks and win so
much more if we mobilize the power of the new civil rights
movement. Independent youth leadership is the key to achieving any
progress on questions of racism, discrimination and prejudice. This
is our time. If we step forward and lead, there is no limit to the
progress we can make! Our demands for progress must be heard.
Boycott school, work, and march on May 1st!
THE COALITION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INTEGRATION, IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND FIGHT FOR EQUALITY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY [BAMN]
Thank you for adding Alianza to your ‘friends’ and helping us in our initiative to come together to eliminate domestic violence among the Latin community.
We are 1 of the 5 domestic violence cultural institutes and a part of a national effort to address the domestic violence needs and concerns of under-served populations. With your help, we hope to continue to move forward with a passionate commitment to our mission. We invite you and your friends to visit our page and help us in our endeavors by spreading the word about us.
Thank you for strengthening and supporting our efforts. Together, we can all make a difference.
CALL FOR ARTISTS/CALL FOR RECIPES!!!
ALIANZA will be publishing a Latino Cookbook with all proceeds going to our organization-The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence.
We are seeking survivors, victims, advocates, organizations, or individuals who simply care about our cause to JOIN IN OUR EFFORTS!
In anticipation of the bill's introduction in the next few days on March 24th, 2009 we are asking everyone to do TWO things:
• Call your Representatives and ask them to cosponsor the DREAM Act. To call contact your Representatives in the House and Senate please call the switchboard operator at 202-224-3121.
• Sign the petition which will automatically send a letter to your Members of Congress urging them to cosponsor the DREAM Act. For a PDF or DOC version see Petition.
You can also show your support by sending a letter to your congressperson by clicking the following link: Support the DREAM Act! and by signing the online petition here: www.dreamact2009.com
Hope you join us in this cause to help our undocumented community have an equal chance to an education. =]
br />May 1st! From Olympic & Broadway to Migra Detention Center
This May Day join the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION COALITION as we denounce the Immigration Customs Enforcement for their racist Raids on our communities and for holding our people as captives inside of that Immigration Detention Facility!!
The SCIC will end our MEGA MARCH on May 1st at the Downtown LA Immigration Detention Facility at 3:00PM! There we will hold a massive rally to send a message to the US Government and these will be our main demands:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION COALITION DEMANDS 1. FULL LEGALIZATION NOW!! 2. STOP the ICE RAIDS NOW!! 3. NO BRACERO/GUEST WORKER PROGRAM!!
When: May 1st 2009 3:00PM
Where: Downtown LA Immigration Detention Facility N. Alameda & Aliso St. (1 Block north of Alameda and Temple in Downtown LA)
Who: This call is being made by the Southern California Immigration Coalition
Help spread the word about Sleep Dealer, out April 17th! Look for it at a theater near you. The film is also being used a fundraisaing tool for community groups, schools, etc. Contact me if you want more info. lpalomares@maya-entertainment.com
No Human Being is Illegal! Water is a Human Right!
Hola Gente, We are calling for your participation for May 1st 2009. You can help now by reposting this flyer to spread the word and by attending the meeting.
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The year was 1637.....700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe, gathered for their "Annual Green Corn Dance" in the area that is now known as Groton, Conn.
While they were gathered in this place of meeting, they were surrounded and attacked by mercenaries of the English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth, they were shot down. The rest were burned alive in the building.
The next day, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared : "A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children. For the next 100 years, every "Thanksgiving Day" ordained by a Governor or President was to honor that victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.
Source: Documents of Holland , 13 Volume Colonial Documentary History, letters and reports form colonial officials to their superiors and the King in England and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, British Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years. Researched by William B.
Newell (Penobscot Tribe) Former Chairman of the University of Connecticut Anthropology Department
