Friday-Saturday, April 13-14
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
9:00-9:30AM Registration
9:30-11:15AM Plenary session: "Undo Prop 2: How We Defeat the Attacks on Affirmative Action and Integration Through Building the Power of the New Civil Rights Movement" Reports by Shanta Driver, Luke Massie, BAMN National Co-Chairs
Lorch Hall Auditorium, on Tappan St.
11:15-11:30AM Assemble in the Diag to march
11:30AM-12:00PM Ann Arbor march
12:00-1:00PM Rally on the Diag
1:00-2:00PM Lunch, Angell Hall Fishbowl
2:00-4:30PM Panel discussion: "Winning Equal, Integrated Education for All, Defeating the Myth of Meritocracy"
Michigan League, 3rd Floor, Room D
Topics and Presenters
1. The BAMN legal challenge to bring down Prop 2, Prop 209, and I-200, George Washington, attorney for BAMN and UEAALDF
2. Eliminating the ACT/SAT from College Admissions Criteria, Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director of FairTest
3. Building the movement on the road to the U.S. Supreme Court, Shanta Driver, attorney and BAMN National co-chair
4:30-6:30PM Dinner
6:30-9:00PM Moderated study and discussion: "Yearning to Breathe Free: The Centrality of the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in Defining the Character of American Society" Leland Sanderson, BAMN Director of Education
Michigan League, 3rd Floor, Room D
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
Conference will take place in the Chemistry Building, Room 1400
11:00AM-1:00PM Plenary session: "Fighting for Equality: The Tasks and Perspectives for the New Civil Rights Movement" Shanta Driver, Luke Massie, BAMN National Co-Chairs
1:00-2:00PM Lunch
2:00-4:00PM Panel discussion: "Building the Youth Leadership of the New Civil Rights Movement from Learning the Lessons of our Struggle" Reports by Issamar Camacho and Jevon Cochran, BAMN High School Organizers, Video by Josie Hyman, Chaired by Luke Massie
Topics will include the Dec. 4, 2006 rally and march at the US Supreme Court, the March 30, 2007 César Chávez Day high school walkouts, the upcoming plans for the May 1 National Day of Action to Defend Immigrant Rights, and fundraising for the BAMN Summer Youth Leadership Program.
4:00-6:00PM Dinner break
6:00PM Plenary session: "The changing balance of power on a world scale, the Significance of Ending the U.S. Occupation of Iraq" Tony Gard, Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary, Great Britain
For more information, call (313) 468-3398 or email letters@bamn.com
Posted By: B. Dwight Foster, B.A., MS-MANAGEMENT
Wednesday, April 11th 2007 at 2:01PM
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