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United against all gender based oppression!
We started off this month, on Sunday November 3rd, with a beautiful workshop planned, organized, and led by our Brooklyn women and girl members. In the lead up to the workshop, the Brooklyn women and girl members made audio recordings sharing their experiences with gender-based oppression and violence. They used those audio clips, including blaring…
Read MoreDays of Action: Immigrants say NO to 4 new Rikers!
As many of us know, Rikers Island is inhumane and a torture chamber for thousands of people. After many years of organizing by impacted communities, Rikers was supposed to close. Yet, Mayor de Blasio and New York City Council is pushing a $10 Billion Rikers expansion plan to build 4 borough based jails. They claim this plan will allow them…
Read MoreVote NO on Jail Expansion!
On Thursday, 8 DRUM members from all of our bases testified at the City Council’s Land Use Committee’s hearing on the mayor’s jail expansion plan. Members came after school and work, waited many hours, to demand City Council vote NO to the jail expansion plan. Members testified the $10 billion should be used to fund…
Read MoreNo Shame! No Fear!
Our South Queens gender justice team, working in the Richmond Hill/Ozone Park area, put together a public workshop so that our communities can start thinking about how we end domestic and gender-based violence in our neighborhoods. They started doing street outreach in the beginning of the year and identified domestic and gender-based violence as an…
Read MoreSummer Picnic Brings Our Bases Together
Over 300 members from all 4 of our membership bases gathered together for DRUM’s 2019 Annual Membership Picnic at Sunken Meadows Park this past weekend. We got to celebrate our wins and accomplishments from this year so far, build with each other, share good food, play games, have a Young Peoples Liberation Area (YPLA), replay a…
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