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URGENT APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO ASSIST RELIEF AND ORGANIZING EFFORTS Send donations to: DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving 72-18 Roosevelt Avenue, 2nd Floor Jackson Heights, NY 11372 718-205-3036 Or make a donation online ALL DONATIONS WILL BE SENT TO THE BANGLADESH CENTRE FOR WORKER SOLIDARITY South Asian Workers in Solidarity with Bangladeshi Garment…

Amadou Diallo R.I.P. (RESIST on IN POWER) – 14 years ago today, an unarmed street vendor and immigrant, was killed in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD officers. Amadou Diallo was only 23 years young when he was shot and killed by four police officers of the New York Police Department on February 4,…

Is the FBI foiling or creating terrorist plots? A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror” shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counter-terrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than fifteen thousand informants who infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate…

DRUM stands in Solidarity with Migrant Workers in Greece and the Greek People In the wake of growing strength of the extreme right wing Golden Dawn party in Greece, and the increasing racist and xenophobic attacks on migrant workers, DRUM members joined a protest outside the Greek Consulate to demand justice. A Pakistani migrant worker,…

Address the Hostile Environment Causing the Growing Incidents of Racial Violence QUEENS, NEW YORK (January 8, 2013) – This afternoon, DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving), CAIR-NY (Council on American Islamic Relations), City Council members, community leaders and over 150 community members, and friends of affected family members, gathered to mourn the victims of recent…