Info about By Any Means Necessary
(BAMN) and
its parent sect, the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL)
Start with my this post from NathanNewman.org with many of these links and a longer first hand article on BAMN.
Check out this general info on BAMN's
and the RWL’s history from google
From Berkeley and Oakland experience:
* From the Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Cal , on BAMN’s 1995 attacks on other
student groups (1995)
* From Daily Cal on BAMN’s disruption
of a rally with Jesse Jackon in 1997
* 1997 Daily Cal on allegations that BAMN stole newspaper editions critical of the group
* Letters to Daily Cal over divisive BAMN tactics
* A 1995 group letter of left and socialist groups detailing the violent tactics of BAMN & the RWL
* On BAMN’s disruption in Oakland teachers union from 2001 In These Times (scroll down)
* A somewhat positive profile of BAMN activists in AsianWeek with details on others’ view of their disruption of activism in Bay Area
* 2001 division between Black Student Union activists and BAMN (see also here)
* A 2000 criticism of BAMN’s alienating tactics
on campus
* Here is a good link from
http://www.goodspeedupdate.com/bamn/BAMNfacts.htm
More on history of violence by BAMN:
* 1996 Daily SunDial article about student opposition to violence by BAMN at Cal-State Northridge
* From 1997 LA Times coverage of the trial of BAMN activists for assaults on police at Cal State Northridge
* 1998 arrest of BAMN activists throwing rocks
and bottles at an anti-Klan rally in
Violence by Revolutionary Workers League, BAMN’s parent organization, and its associated National Women's Rights Organizing Committee
* Violence as part of 1995 Detroit Newspaper Strike
* Description of them at anti-Klan rally and newspaper strike