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  September 8th 2018 – Last Saturday, Men’s Eckshate organized a dhaba (community cafe) in Kensington, Brooklyn to engage men on tackling gender based street harassment in their community. Over thirty community and DRUM members were part of a workshop to develop ways to end street harassment in their neighborhood. The participants committed to intervening…

                August 2018 – What’s At Stake if the Citizenship Question is Added to the 2020 Census? Our Families. Our Neighbors. Our Local Businesses. “This citizenship question needs to be defeated. I don’t want to answer this question because it opens up the possibility of deportation for me,…

Everyone deserves to be protected from Trump and his Deportation Machine, aka ICE. DRUM, along with SAALT, 18MR and several community partners are leading the grassroots effort to say No to the Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census. The Census is critical to the survival and well-being of all our communities, especially frontline communities and…

  20 young people in the 18th annual DRUM Summer Youth Organizing Institute spent the first week getting to know each other and learn about: – What is oppression? What is power? – What is organizing? – Building worker power and confronting systems of Oppression    

                May 15th 2018 -We had a powerful Know Your Rights, Realities, and Responsibilities training yesterday Over 70 people, including representatives from 6 workplaces and faith institutions, joined for a participatory art project on defining safety, and an interactive workshop, simultaneously interpreted in 4 languages, that focused on…