The BAMN Podcast

BAM Podcast - The Palestinian Struggle: Political Strategy and Activism

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 needed for victory to the Palestinian struggle to stop the Israel's genocide against Palestinians.
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BAMN Podcast 006 - Building a Strike-to-Win Movement from UC to the UK: Analysis of the ongoing UC Strike in a global context, defeating the insufficient TA, and where to go from here

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 centers for leading and building the movement for equality. (They meet every Saturday 10am Pacific GMT -8, at BAMN.com/covidtribunal )
 
In this discussion, BAMN National Chair, Lead Attorney, and Veteran labor organizer Shanta Driver speaks with BAMN's spectrum of labor organizers from California to the UK, together with UC graduate students currently on strike, about the importance of the UC strike and how to win the most out of this historic struggle at its current turning point. 

BAMN Podcast 005 - How we can defend Roe v Wade, NO BUSINESS AS USUAL: Defend abortion rights by any means necessary

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 Intro1:47 Shanta Driver bio2:40 Shanta Driver: Summary of draft decision to overturn Roe v Wade10:29 Neal Lyons bio11:24 Neal Lyons: The conclusions to draw, including those the Democratic Party and liberal leaders and commentators will not draw1:05:06 Shanta Driver 2: How the movement can win, the betrayal that the Democratic Party cannot be allowed to get away with1:15:24 Outro
====================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 knowledge needed by the new mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement to stop COVID, fight racism, stop global heating, defeat the neo-fascist far right, defend democracy, and win equality. The movement needs leaders; it needs people to join BAMN. Follow our podcast, visit our website BAMN.com, and join our Discord (the link is at our website).

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

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.
SPEAKERS:
SHANTA DRIVER - BAMN's national chair spoke on the need to continue the student-led actions to defeat the forces behind school reopening.
NEAL LYONS - BAMN organizer speaks on the lie behind "cases are going down," the U.S. being #1 in the world in COVID deaths, and why the demands for remote learning, mandatory vaccines and mandatory masks are necessary.
0:00 Intro2:06 Tribunal to shut down COVID Jan. 22, 20222:41 Shanta Driver bio3:35 Shanta Driver: Opening statement8:25 Neal Lyons bio9:19 Neal Lyons: Three Lies School Officials Say33:17 Outro
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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 knowledge needed by the new mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement to stop COVID, fight racism, stop global heating, defeat the neo-fascist far right, defend democracy, and win equality. The movement needs leaders; it needs people to join BAMN. Follow our podcast, visit our website BAMN.com, and join our Discord (the link is at our website).

Episode 003: Defend an Independent Ukraine! (Feb. 28, 2022)

Defend an Independent Ukraine!

Episode 002: Stop the Imperialists’ War-Drive - No War for Control of Ukraine - No NATO War with Russia (Feb. 18, 2022)

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 full statements and see other ITC materials, please visit itc4.org 
The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is committed to building the new mass, militant civil rights movement for equality and justice and to fight racism. BAMN is an integrated, international organization fighting to build an international mass movement of the oppressed, including against imperialist attacks of the US here and around the world.
BAMN is the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. BAMN puts out the science and knowledge needed by the new mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement to stop COVID, fight racism, stop global heating, defeat the neo-fascist far right, defend democracy, and win equality. The movement needs leaders; it needs people to join BAMN. Follow our podcast, visit our website BAMN.com, and join our Discord (the link is at our website).

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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 knowledge needed by the new mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement to stop COVID, fight racism, stop global heating, defeat the neo-fascist far right, defend democracy, and win equality. The movement needs leaders; it needs people to join BAMN. Follow our podcast, visit our website BAMN.com, and join our Discord (the link is at our website).

Episode 001: Three Lies School Officials Say to Reopen During the Pandemic, vs. the Science of COVID (Jan. 17, 2022)

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.
SPEAKERS:
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 student, teacher and community actions.
NEAL LYONS - BAMN organizer counters the three main lies told by school administrators to force moving schools back to in-person learning.
0:00 Intro1:28 Tribunal to shut down COVID Jan. 17, 20223:15 Shanta Driver intro4:45 Shanta Driver: Lessons BAMN has learned fighting to shut down COVID and shut down in-person schools20:27 Neal Lyons intro21:21 Neal Lyons: Three Lies School Officials Say42:25 Outro
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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 knowledge needed by the new mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement to stop COVID, fight racism, stop global heating, defeat the neo-fascist far right, defend democracy, and win equality. The movement needs leaders; it needs people to join BAMN. Follow our podcast, visit our website BAMN.com, and join our Discord (the link is at our website).