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Strategizing/Organizing - An overview of
strategizing ideas and plans for Southern California.
Building Coalitions - help make links to the
hundreds of Southern California organizations who are on our side.
Media Projects - getting positive and frequent media
attention is key to building the movement. Help build connections to media groups,
radio shows, print media, and other sources.
Electoral/Legal Issues - get involved with
specific CA initiatives, such as CRENO!
Fundraising - ideas, tools, materials, and
projects for raising funds. And how to donate money!
Speakers - become a speaker, start a speakers
group, host a speaker-training session, or invite a speaker to your meeting.
Useful Materials/Links - resources, flyers,
posters, and other helpful materials and links for organizers.
Calendar of Events - action events,
opportunities to learn more, events where BAMN should have a presence, etc.
Local Contact List - become a BAMN contact
for your city/school/ organization, contact a BAMN organizer in your area.
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STOP CRENO NOW!
C.R.E.N.O (Classification by Race,
Ethnicity, Color, and National Origin) is an initiative put forward by UC Regent Ward
Connerly that will ban the collection of information about race, ethnicity, color, and
national origin in nearly all California government organizations and agencies. If passed,
CRENO will make it impossible to do research on race, to study or prove discrimination,
and to gather important statistics related to health, education, employment, housing,
social services, policing, and criminal justice.
The designers of CRENO believe
that racism will go away when we stop talking about race. In reality, CRENO will
facilitate a much more covert, sneaky, socially embedded, and difficult-to-prove form of
racism. California voters will decide on this issue in March of 2004 (or possibly as
soon as November 2003). It is time to wake up the California electorate and stop
this lethal initiative in its tracks!
WHAT TO DO
Encourage institutions, local
governments, media, businesses, and organizations to use their voice, power,
constituencies, and resources to oppose CRENO.
Organize on a grassroots level
to create a force of concerned citizens to spread information through communities,
schools, and workplaces.
Through media, informational
materials, public events/presentations, education, and voter registration drives, prepare
EVERYONE to vote NO on CRENO.
LEARN MORE ABOUT CRENO
Coalition for an
Informed California: No on the Information Ban Organization
devoted to battling CRENO. This site has a great deal of helpful information about the
harmful potential of CRENO.
ACLU: No
on Connerly's Race Information Ban Helpful articles, materials, and information for
fighting CRENO.
What the
Heck is CRENO and Why Should We Care? Graduate Student Coalition page with information
about CRENO.
NO on C.R.E.N.O
An informative slideshow about CRENO (click the down arrow to advance the show).
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