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Monami Maulik, Executive Director, to Receive the U.S. Human Rights Movement Builder Award.
The US Human Rights Network (USHRN)’s coordinating center is pleased to announce the winners of the U.S. Human Rights Movement Builders Awards 2013. The presentation of the U.S. Human Rights Movement Builders Awards is an occasion to recognize and celebrate six visionary people and one organization building and strengthening the human rights movement at the grassroots…
Read MoreDRUM to Anchor People’s Global Action Week during UN High Level Dialogues
Join us for the Peoples’ Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights. September 30th – October 4th, 2013 New York City As governments of the world meet in New York for the UN High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development on October 3 & 4, join migrant organizations and allies from across the world for…
Read MoreHow Investing in Grass-Roots Advocacy Helped Put an End to a Racist Practice by Hugh Hogan
How Investing in Grass-Roots Advocacy Helped Put an End to a Racist Practice By Hugh Hogan September 05, 2013 Despite news headlines almost daily this summer about New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk police tactics, most journalists missed a key component in explaining why the worst abuses of this policy, in place for over a decade, have…
Read MoreIt’s Our Day, Come Party for the CSA!
NYC’s Historic Win for Landmark Civil Rights Legislation is Decades in the Making
We Won! Victory for the Community Safety Act! DARE TO ORGANIZE AND DARE TO WIN! Yesterday afternoon, DRUM membership stood with Communities united for Police Reform and made history. After years of mobilizing hundreds of our members with organizations city-wide, the City Council voted to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto, and passed both bills of the Community…
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