For the past 16 years, DRUM’s members, along with several different communities and grassroots organizations have fought to restore drivers licenses for immigrant New Yorkers. Today the people of our state are one step closer to victory. With the Assembly having passed the legislation on June 12th, and the Senate having passed their bill today,…

Street vendors do the work through rain and shine  So yesterday, we honored and celebrated a major victory by street vendors against abuse by city agencies in a press conference despite the rain  Street vendors won a major lawsuit, led by Street Vendor Project, against the city for trashing the carts, materials, supplies, and food of…

The victory over Amazon was a watershed moment for our city, and our very ideas of how economic development should happen  This past Saturday, we kicked off community conversations to talk about why Amazon HQ2 was a bad deal for New Yorkers, but also to deepen our understanding of the need for economic development that…

15 years ago DRUM members helped launch the Queens Drivers License Coalition. This past Tuesday DRUM members continued the fight for drivers licenses in Albany with over 1,000 community members from Green Light NY Driving Together : Luz Verde NY Manejando Juntos to demand drivers licenses for all New Yorkers. After a rally outside the capitol building,…

“As an immigrant worker and mother I know all too well the dangers of allowing Amazon to come into NYC. Not only because women workers will face the brunt of abuse by Amazon, but also because of how ICE collaborates with Amazon to tear families apart. Our work kept Amazon out of NYC and we…

                  We beat the world’s richest corporation from taking over our city! We beat the world’s richest man from taking over our neighborhoods! We did this as communities of workers, immigrants, residents, women, youth, and so many more! We know that this is a turning of the…

Yesterday, a federal judge blocked the The Trump Administration’s effort to intimidate immigrant communities by adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census form. The addition of this question would have led to the loss of billions of dollars for important services and infrastructure that everyone benefits from like health care, housing, schools, public spaces, political representation and voting.

                December 9th 2018 – DRUM members and organizers spent the day talking to our communities in Kensington about the the “Public Charge” changes the Trump Administration is proposing, to discuss the risks that are real and the risks that are not Over 6 hours of conversations on…

    November 26 2018 – DRUM members mobilized in the cold rain for an action in LIC, the proposed site of the Amazon’s headquarters, to oppose this monstrosity that will destroy and displace our communities DRUM leader Nilesh spoke at the action saying: “New York City is not only giving $3 billion in subsidies,…

                                                        October 12 & 13th 2018 – This past weekend, over 80 DRUM members took over Diversity Plaza to hold a 2-day public education workshop on Census 2020,…