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            July 9, 2017–  Moving Art held its end-of-program gallery sharing the art that 9 young working-class artists have been working on, grounded in the experiences of our communities and tackling issues of racial, immigrant, and gender justice. Moving Art members performed spoken word, dance, and led everyone in a…

  DRUM and Ugnayan joined the NYC’s Women’s March and the Women’s March in D.C. as a part of a nation-wide mobilization to stand up to attacks on reproductive and women’s rights from the Trump administration. Over 400,000 people marched in New York City, making it the single largest mobilization in U.S. history. From the…

May 7th 2017 – 200 community members gathered as part of the Hate Free Zone to begin a conversation on building community defense against raids, criminalization, policing, state violence, hate, bigotry, and repression. We gathered to create a common vision and practice for community building based on mutual respect and cooperation through cultural activities, and…

  February 2017 – DRUM members and leaders launched Moving Art, an arts & organizing program led by Arts & Cultural Justice Organizer Mahira Raihan. Moving Art is a program to build the leadership of cultural workers at DRUM who are also engaged in organizing their communities, and to develop cultural work for DRUM grounded in mass base organizing, movement-building,…

  February 21st 2017 – Youth Leader Tami spoke at NYC Youth Rally to End Summons and Arrests in Schools: “Many are calling for “sanctuary” schools. However we cannot have “sanctuary” schools unless all youth in our schools and communities are safe regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, immigration status, age, religion, and ability.…