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| − | '''BAMN''' is an acronym for "By Any Means Necessary," a self-described "Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality."<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/bamnpage/photos/a.407438002618776.108690.119517851410794/1401475609881672/?type=1&theater, accessed June 17 2017]</ref>,<ref>[https://twitter.com/followbamn, accessed June 17 2017]</ref> | + | '''BAMN''' is an acronym for "By Any Means Necessary," a self-described "Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality."<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/bamnpage/photos/a.407438002618776.108690.119517851410794/1401475609881672/?type=1&theater BAMN on Facebook, accessed June 17 2017]</ref>,<ref>[https://twitter.com/followbamn BAMN on Twitter, accessed June 17 2017]</ref> |
==Mother Jones Profile== | ==Mother Jones Profile== | ||
| − | BAMN was featured along with other "Left-Wing Militants" in an article at [[Mother Jones]]. | + | [[BAMN]] was featured along with other "Left-Wing Militants" in an article at [[Mother Jones]]. |
| − | ::"[[BAMN]] formed in 1995 to fight California’s rollback of affirmative action. The group, which is led by civil rights lawyer [[Shanta Driver]], has organized anti-Trump rallies and high school walkouts. But it also supports more aggressive tactics. “When we say ‘by any means necessary,’ we mean everything from doing legal cases to organizing more militant actions,” Driver says. “We are not people who believe, in situations where we’re under attack, that we should turn the other cheek.” Last June, BAMN teamed up with antifas to confront a small group of white nationalists marching outside California’s Capitol building in Sacramento. Anti-racist protesters, many in black clothing and masks, pelted marchers with water bottles and hit them with wooden bats. Several people from both camps were beaten or stabbed. “They are organizing to attack and kill us, so we have a right to self-defense,” BAMN activist [[Yvette Felarca]] told a TV crew. “Anyone who’s thinking about joining them, don’t. Because it’s not going to be a good day for you.”<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-anti-trump-politics-nazi/ A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portland—and Beyond, accessed June 17 2017]</ref> | + | ::"[[BAMN]] formed in 1995 to fight California’s rollback of affirmative action. The group, which is led by civil rights lawyer [[Shanta Driver]], has organized anti-Trump rallies and high school walkouts. But it also supports more aggressive tactics. “When we say ‘by any means necessary,’ we mean everything from doing legal cases to organizing more militant actions,” Driver says. “We are not people who believe, in situations where we’re under attack, that we should turn the other cheek.” Last June, [[BAMN]] teamed up with antifas to confront a small group of white nationalists marching outside California’s Capitol building in Sacramento. Anti-racist protesters, many in black clothing and masks, pelted marchers with water bottles and hit them with wooden bats. Several people from both camps were beaten or stabbed. “They are organizing to attack and kill us, so we have a right to self-defense,” BAMN activist [[Yvette Felarca]] told a TV crew. “Anyone who’s thinking about joining them, don’t. Because it’s not going to be a good day for you.”<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-anti-trump-politics-nazi/ A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portland—and Beyond, accessed June 17 2017]</ref> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 03:19, 18 June 2017
BAMN is an acronym for "By Any Means Necessary," a self-described "Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality."[1],[2]
Mother Jones Profile
BAMN was featured along with other "Left-Wing Militants" in an article at Mother Jones.
- "BAMN formed in 1995 to fight California’s rollback of affirmative action. The group, which is led by civil rights lawyer Shanta Driver, has organized anti-Trump rallies and high school walkouts. But it also supports more aggressive tactics. “When we say ‘by any means necessary,’ we mean everything from doing legal cases to organizing more militant actions,” Driver says. “We are not people who believe, in situations where we’re under attack, that we should turn the other cheek.” Last June, BAMN teamed up with antifas to confront a small group of white nationalists marching outside California’s Capitol building in Sacramento. Anti-racist protesters, many in black clothing and masks, pelted marchers with water bottles and hit them with wooden bats. Several people from both camps were beaten or stabbed. “They are organizing to attack and kill us, so we have a right to self-defense,” BAMN activist Yvette Felarca told a TV crew. “Anyone who’s thinking about joining them, don’t. Because it’s not going to be a good day for you.”[3]