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Thank You for a Powerful Celebration of Community Power DRUM’s 12th Anniversary Gala Dear DRUM family, Two weeks after the Gala, we are still feeling absolutely inspired by the collective love and support of the DRUM family. There was a magical feeling to the bringing together of an over-capacity crowd of DRUM leaders and members,…

DRUM MEMBERS TESTIFY AT CITY COUNCIL FIELD HEARING IN QUEENS   DRUM members joined alongside communities sick and tired of stop-and-frisk abuses, surveillance of Muslim communities, targeting of low-wage workers, unlawful “gender checks” and searches by the NYPD, and highlighted how the Community Safety Act would bring measure of police accountability and oversight. 14 year…

DRUM – DESIS RISING UP & MOVING and COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR POLICE REFORM PRESS CITY COUNCIL TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY SAFETY ACT!   Communities sick and tired of stop-and-frisk abuses, surveillance of Muslim communities, targeting of low-wage workers, unlawful “gender checks” and searches by the NYPD came together to demand police accountability and oversight through passage…