The BAMN Podcast

The BAMN Podcast

Presentations and practical advice from the international civil rights organization BAMN, for building the mass, militant, integrated movement to defeat COVID, fight racism, stop global warming, defend immigrant rights, shut down the neo-fascist far right, fight anti-LGBTQ bigotry, and win equality. BAMN is short for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) BAMN.com Facebook.com/BAMNpage Twitter.com/followbamn Instagram.com/joinbamn Tiktok.com/@joinbamn

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February 12, 2024 30 mins

BAMN holds weekly international tribunals on Zoom to build the international mass movement for equality. At our last tribunal, we discussed the January 13, 2024 March on Washington D.C. for Palestine, and the important development of demonstrators shaking and almost breaching the fence surrounding the White House. 

BAMN's national chair, Shanta Driver, presented on the methods of militant struggle and the political demands that are...

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These are excerpts from BAMN's December 17, 2022 Tribunal, which took place the day after a narrow majority of two UAW bargaining teams voted to put a tentative agreement before their members, in an effort to end a 5-week strike of thousands of graduate students and professional researchers in the University of California, the largest higher education strike in California history."    BAMN's tribunals are national organizing center...
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At BAMN's May 7, 2022 national tribunal, BAMN leaders SHANTA DRIVER and NEAL LYONS talk about the draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and give a political perspective to give leaders what they need to lead and organize the new mass movement for equality that can win.

0:00 Intro 1:47 Shanta Driver bio 2:40 Shanta Driver: Summary of draft decision to overturn Roe v Wade 10:29 Neal Lyons bio 11:24 Neal Lyons: The conclusions to dra...

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Episode 004 - The Lie Behind Saying COVID Cases Are Going Down, and Why the U.S. Is #1 in COVID Deaths (Jan. 22, 2022)

Presentations from the 2nd national tribunal for Shutting Down COVID and Shutting Down In-Person Schools, held by BAMN on Zoom, on January 22, 2022. These tribunals began in wake of a wave of student and teacher-led walkouts and strikes against dangerous school reopening plans.

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SHANTA DRIVER - BAMN's nati...

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Defend an Independent Ukraine!

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Listen to this statement on the Ukraine crisis from BAMN’s affiliate organization, the International Trotskyist Committee (ITC) for the political regeneration of the Fourth International. Titled " Stop the Imperialist War drive - No War for control of Ukraine - No NATO war with Russia,” it was initially written and published on February 18, 2022, before the invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russian forces.

To follow along or read the...

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March 9, 2022 2 mins

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BAMN is the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. It exists to build the movement needed to defeat COVID by shutting down schools, mandating vaccines, mandating masks, and winning paid leave and economic assistance for families so they can support their children’s ability to learn remotely. BAMN puts out the science and ...

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BAMN held a national tribunal for Shutting Down COVID and Shutting Down In-Person Schools on Zoom on January 17 (Martin Luther King Day), 2022. The tribunal was held during a wave of student and teacher-led walkouts and strikes against dangerous school reopening plans.

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SHANTA DRIVER - BAMN's national chair reported on BAMN's continuing fight to shut down COVID and in-person schools and on needing to continue the mass stud...

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