Interested in Volunteering with DRUM?
DRUM organizes working-class Indo-Caribbean & South Asian youth and adults around the issues impacting their lives from housing, immigration, climate to worker's rights and more. Our primary base and work is focused on building power among working-class communities.
For years, allies who wouldn't qualify for our membership have expressed interest in wanting to volunteer, support, or engage with DRUM. This survey is an effort to gather data on the kinds of interest there is, so that we can assess what kind of programming might be mutually beneficial for interested volunteers and allies, for DRUM, and for our movements as a whole.
We are facing a time of crisis. While our movements have grown stronger over the last few years, we are still not organized at the levels and scale that we need to confront the crises we face. We want to engage people in our work so they can support our work, which is led by our working-class members. If you take the subway, you've seen the crises we're speaking of. There's a climate crisis (hello flooding) here and across the world. The current mode of capitalism is getting more and more unstable and things are only getting harder for working-class people (inflation AND a housing crisis). While our working-class communities are struggling to pay rent and find steady employment, right-wing and fascist movements are growing stronger at large, and even within our communities. Meanwhile, most of our elected officials divesting from our essential needs and from our communities, rather than moving a strident agenda to confront the crises. We have President Biden supporting genocide, Governor Hochul giving away billions to billionaires and the real estate industry, and Mayor Adams defunding schools and libraries while scapegoating migrants and giving away billions to the NYPD.
Our goal is to figure how we can continue to build working-class power in our neighborhoods, while also engaging beyond our core base so that we can fight these crises together.We don't know what this engagement or programming will look like, but we'd like you to fill out this form to start to get a sense of interest, of who you are, where you live and how you could be engaged. After you fill out the form, we'll be in touch!