[WC.TC] Fwd: 11th National Conference of the New Civil Rights Mvmt at UCLA

[Jacob Cabrera]

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> From: "Ronald Cruz" <rcruz at berkeley.edu>
> Date: May 18, 2008 7:57:16 PM PDT
> To: californiabamn at berkeley.edu
> Subject: 11th National Conference of the New Civil Rights Mvmt at UCLA
> Reply-To: california at bamn.com
>
> *Join high school and college student leaders from across  
> California and
> the nation at this critically important event!*
> *Our country is at a turning point in the fight for equality,  
> justice and
> integration!*
> *Our generation needs a voice to speak for our own interests and
> aspirations. We need our own leaders, and we need to BE leaders
> ourselves.*
>
> ===========================================================
>
> *Please forward widely*
> *Please announce it in your classes*
>
> [call 323.317.7675 or see www.BAMN.com for more info]
>
> 11th National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement
> UCLA, Friday May 23 – Sunday May 25
> sponsored by BAMN
>
> *every individual and organization committed to building the fight for
> equality, justice and integration is invited to attend and  
> participate*
>
> ========================
> Partial agenda for Friday, May 23:
> ========================
>
> Friday morning's and early afternoon's sessions will take place at
> Covel Commons in the Grand Horizon Room. For campus map, see:
> http://www.advocacy.ucla.edu/events/UCLA%20Map.pdf
> [Covel Commons is located in grid C3 of the map, next to Sunset  
> Village]
>
> 9:30 am: Registration starts
>
> 10 am: Opening session - Building the leadership for the New Civil
> Rights Movement. Includes panel of student leaders of the movement
>
> 12 noon: March and Rally (Gather in front of Covel Commons) -
> Increasing Minority Enrollment in the UC system
>
> 12:45 pm: Latino/a, black, Asian, Arab and white: Why we defend
> affirmative action and integration programs - The fight to overcome
> separate and unequal education in America
>
>
> A great shift is occurring in our nation. The outcome of the national
> election is still months away, and yet something much greater has
> already changed: we have changed. Our generation is gleaming with
> optimism and excitement. For the millions of young people asserting
> political demands for the first time, what began as opposition to the
> Iraq war has grown into a declaration of hope for becoming a nation no
> longer separated along lines of gender and race. It took only a few
> months for our generation to brush aside old notions that once seemed
> invincible. Yesterday's view was that a fundamental change for the
> better would have to wait until some indefinite point in the future;
> today's view is that such a change is really possible now.
>
> This swift change of views has arrived at an important moment for our
> nation. Now is the time to remove all the barriers of race and gender
> that deform opportunity in our nation. UCLA, UC Berkeley and the other
> elite campuses around the country have been moving backwards since
> they have implemented state bans on affirmative action programs,
> against the interest of the student body on these campuses and of
> Latina/o, black and Native American students. While our generation has
> distinguished itself for breaking the racial and gender barriers to
> the American presidency, college campuses in California and other
> places in the country have experienced a fortification of those
> barriers against minorities and women gaining a college degree. At
> UCLA and UC Berkeley the enforcement of Proposition 209 has driven
> down underrepresented minority enrollment to the token levels that
> existed forty years ago. We cannot accept these conditions any longer,
> not in the face of a generation so eager to do away with the old
> social divisions.
>
> Our generation needs a voice to speak for our own interests and
> aspirations. Our demands for progress need to be heaerd beyond the
> vote tallies in primary caucuses – we need to be heard here and now.
> In this state. On this campus. Everywhere. We need our own leaders,
> and we need to BE leaders ourselves. We are the leaders of our
> generation. Join us and work to change our society today.
>
> Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action Integration & Immigrant Rights
> and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
> www.BAMN.com
> www.myspace.com/nationalbamn
> www.myspace.com/chavezdayofaction
> 323.317.7675
>
>
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