BAMN will be participating in the Save our Schools conference and rally July 28-30.
We are helping to raise funds to document the event, as well as sponsoring a workshop during the conference.
Here is where you can donate for the documentary:
Taking an Activist Stance: Students and Educators’ Action Plan
Hear from the students and teachers who have been in the streets, organizing and winning real struggles against market reform attacks on public education. Workshop speakers will describe successful fights that have been made in the past few years, such as the 2010 Miami Dade teacher sick out, student walk-out and student/teacher sit-down at the Florida Governor’s office which defeated the legislative effort to tie teachers’ job security and pay to student test scores; the series of student walkouts that have saved arts programs in Los Angeles and laid the basis for the fight against school closures in Detroit, and the successful student occupation that saved Catherine Ferguson Academy, a highly successful program for pregnant and parenting teens, from closure.
Presenters will discuss the history of education struggles from which effective current strategies and tactics have been drawn, the lessons of recent struggles and perspectives for building a movement for quality public education that can win.
Ceresta Smith, a teacher, union activist and leader of the 2010 sit-in at the Florida Governor’s office
Shanta Driver, attorney and Chairperson of BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) Ms. Driver was the architect of the combination of litigation and mass struggle which won the fight for affirmative action at the Supreme Court in 2003 and the strategist for the successful occupation that kept Catherine Ferguson Academy open this past spring
Julianna Sarr is a former educator and an activist from Newport News, VA.
Larcenia Turner-Dixon is a Miami–‐Dade County Public Schools educator
LeRoy Lewis is from Southeastern High School, Detroit, led walkouts in protest of arts program cuts
Porsha Jackson is from Southeastern High School ,Detroit and led walkouts in protest of arts program cuts
Tania Kappner is a teacher at Oakland Technical High School and a union activist. She has led marches and rallies for immigrant rights and the Dream Act, which have resulted in Oakland having the strongest sanctuary provisions in the nation. She also led the “Disaster Drill” walkout against cuts in funding for education in California
Tiffini Baldwin is an alumnus of Catherine Ferguson Academy and was a leader of the Catherine Ferguson Academy occupation which gained national recognition and saved the school from closure
