By Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Hello All:
Now that we've gotten the election of Letitia James as NYC Public Advocate out of the way, I can focus on other important events and concerns of impact on the Eclectically Black Community. Such as the newly formed Student Activist group, BAMN, which is an acronym for Brother Malcolm X's famous statement "By any means necessary."
They are forming a march on the subprime court (known to most as the supreme court, but the court hasn't been supreme for quite some time, now). They have correctly identified the subprime court as the basis for a lot of the current problems Americans are suffering from, and have decided to take them on.
I wholeheartedly and totally support them 100%. It's time the issue of term limits be seriously focused upon for the so called "justices" who have been anything but, and called them to task for the negative decisions that they've handed down that have had serious deleterious affects on the US in general, and on WE, The Eclectically Black People, in particular - the latest and most egregious of which has been the smacking down of the Voting Rights Act, while at the same time giving precedence over other issues that also combined to undermine the Black community.
I am proud to know that these youth have been active for quite some time, have been paying attention to the issues and problems, and are not going to sit idly by and allow things to go down like that.
When I received the info that this is set to jump off on October 15, I immediately responded that, while they're at it, they should likewise march on Congress and the rep-ugh-blican/tea bag members, who are holding the country hostage because of their inherent racist, idiotic, bankrupt policies.
I look forward to their success, and to a groundswell of Americans who likewise want to participate in sending a signal, as well as taking action, for a group of people (actually 2 groups) who are abusing the power that was given them, and undermining the stability of Americans across the board.
The following is the overview and information on BAMN for your consideration and edification. Give them your support.
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Thursday 03rd October 2013, 08:36:54 am
Sponsor a Student to March on the U.S. Supreme Court on October 15th!
Restore Affirmative Action, Stop the Attack on Minority Political Rights, & Win Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants
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Fight to Win an Expansion of Equality and Integration! -
Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants!
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Pass the Federal Dream Act!
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Minority enrollment at Michigan’s Public Medical Schools dropped dramatically between 2006 and 2011: from 10.1% to 5.7% at MSU; from 7.2% to 3.6% at UM; from 13.4% to 4.6% at WSU
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By 2012 the percentage of black graduates at the University of Michigan Law School was the lowest it had been since 1969, while doctoral and master’s degrees had declined to levels not seen in twenty years.
This case is about the protection of the political rights and educational futures of black, Latina/o and other minority youth and families under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment during the period of the greatest demographic change that the nation has ever faced. Michigan must not become the model for how to create a new, constitutionally-ratified Jim Crow.
America will soon be a majority-minority nation. There is no way to build a united, inclusive new America if the core values, the core political rights that have bound us together, even in their imperfect application, do not apply to us all.
America today is a nation desperately in need of decisions that express a commitment to equality and justice.
We are in a new phase of struggle for human equality, dignity and equal rightsin America. The millions of immigrants, mostly Latina/o, who started their great march in 2006, are just beginning their fight to make America everyone’s nation. As they do, however, Michigan’s Prop 2 and California’s Proposition 209, are widening the gulf between Latina/o and black communities on one side—and white communities on the other.
The gap in educational opportunities means widening gaps in employment, family income, home ownership, and everything else. This trend, if unchecked, will take on a whole new meaning in our nation today than it did under the old Jim Crow. In the lifetime of many who are alive today, black, Latina/o, Asian and Native Americans will be the majority of our population.
We can win our fight for equality if we use the coming weeks to build an integrated national movement that can mobilize bus loads and plane loads of people to the Supreme Court on the day the case is heard. A victory in this case will overturn Prop 2 and similar bans in California and other states and set the stage for a new phase of struggle that can open up the gates of selective undergraduate universities and graduate schools that have now been closed to black, Latina/o and Native American students for a generation. This is our best chance to win a Federal Immigration bill that is written in the interest of the immigrant communities and that includes full citizenship rights for all immigrants, an end to all deportations, and a Federal Dream Act.
We need your support to build the movement to a position strong enough to win.
Thousands of young people across the nation would love to be on the steps of the Supreme Court on October 15th and demonstrate their commitment to fighting for their own futures and their community. Victory will require the mass political pressure of young people on the steps of the Supreme Court on October 15th. Excellent legal arguments alone are not enough to win.Help make this possible by sponsoring a student today!!!
All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE and may be made through the website HERE. Checks may be made out to United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (or UEAALDF), P.O. Box 7205, Detroit, MI 48207. Suggested donations are the following (donations of any size welcome):- Individual plane ticket from California: $500
- Bus from Michigan or Mid-West: $4000
- Five student bus tickets from Mid-West: $500
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BAMN Victories- Supreme Court to Hear BAMN’s Challenge of Michigan’s Affirmative-Action Ban! (Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action)
- Reinstate Affirmative Action in Michigan NOW!
- David beats Goliath: AFSCME Local 207 wins strike!
- Detroit Water Workers Strike Ends in Victory
- More Victories for the Movement… Gay Ugandan Refugee Granted Asylum
- Victory! Maybury Elementary School & Its Bilingual Ed Program Saved!
- VICTORY THROUGH DIRECT MASS ACTION — LINCOLN LIBRARY REOPENS
- Edson Cosmas gets refugee status…. VICTORY FOR A MOVEMENT!
- VIDEO: DAAP’s Matt Williams wins debate for ASUC president, still needs your vote
- VICTORY: Stay-away orders against Occupy Cal defendants lifted!
- VICTORY! UC-Berkeley chancellor forced to resign
- VICTORY FOR THE UC BERKELEY LIBRARY OCCUPATION!
- VICTORY! Monteith Branch library will reopen next month!
- VICTORY for the movement: California Dream Act signed into law!
- Victory for Affirmative Action in Michigan!
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Now that you know, what will YOU DO?
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Now that you know, what will YOU DO?
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
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