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Men’s Eckshate Anti-Street Harassment Dhaba!
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…
What’s At Stake- Census 2020
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,…
No Citizenship Question in Census 2020!
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…
YouthPower! Summer 2018
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
Know Your Rights, Realities, and Responsibilities!
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…
Putting ICE On Trial!
April 27th 2018 – Today, over 70 community members gathered at Avenue C Plaza in Kensington, Brooklyn to testify with personal stories from Bangladeshi, Indian, Guyanese, and Jewish Iraqi immigrants of being detained, deported, or abused by ICE On the basis of the evidence, the People’s Tribunal found ICE guilty of systemic abuse of…
Workers Rights Are Human Rights – OSHA Training!
April 2018 – Kensington, Brooklyn, as part of our continued building of Hate Free Zones, DRUM hosted OSHA trainings for 30 South Asian day laborers on their rights as workers, the new regulations on workplace safety and the urgency of undocumented immigrants protecting themselves through organizing. As the Trump administration continues to ramp up racist…
Launching The Men’s Eckshate Gender Justice Program!
March 2018 – Men’s Eckshate, DRUM’s men’s gender justice program launched with 12 participants that span the age range and hail from across the working-class Desi diasporas. They started conversation with each other and with DRUM staff on what gender justice means to them. This program is the start of a journey in organizing to…
The Right To Know Act Has Passed!
December 20th 2017 – Yesterday, the City Council, passed the Right to Know Act (RTKA). RTKA was a legislation put together by 200+ community organizations, who are part of the coalition Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), many of whom are impacted by police abuses, to protect the civil and human rights of New Yorkers…
Senator Schumer – Cut Enforcement Keep Our Dreams!
On the Heels of Major Changes to Tax Plans, Immigrant New Yorkers Rally outside Senator Schumer’s Office Around Tax Spending New York, NY – On Monday, December 4 at Noon, nearly 75 members from DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), immigrant communities, and allies gathered outside of Senator Schumer’s office for a press conference and…