DRUM MEMBERS TESTIFY AT CITY COUNCIL FIELD HEARING IN QUEENS   DRUM members joined alongside communities sick and tired of stop-and-frisk abuses, surveillance of Muslim communities, targeting of low-wage workers, unlawful “gender checks” and searches by the NYPD, and highlighted how the Community Safety Act would bring measure of police accountability and oversight. 14 year…

DRUM – DESIS RISING UP & MOVING and COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR POLICE REFORM PRESS CITY COUNCIL TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY SAFETY ACT!   Communities sick and tired of stop-and-frisk abuses, surveillance of Muslim communities, targeting of low-wage workers, unlawful “gender checks” and searches by the NYPD came together to demand police accountability and oversight through passage…

The Racial & Immigrant Justice program wages campaigns at the local and national level to gain just immigration reforms and to end racial profiling through policy change.  Our members and leaders who are directly affected by detention, deportation, racial profiling, surveillance, and immigration enforcement lead the campaigns.  Based on the experiences of the past 14 years,…

The South Asian Workers Center builds the leadership of and organizes low-wage workers in service industries, particularly immigrant women retail workers.  The center runs monthly clinics to win unpaid wages, workers rights, and better working conditions. Of the one million undocumented immigrants in New York City, South Asians and Asians make up the second highest…

YouthPower! is a youth-led program that builds the leadership and power of low-income Desi youth in NYC to win educational and immigrant justice.  YouthPower! members are ages 13-21 and attend NYC public schools, public colleges, and/or are low-wage workers.  Through political education and campaign skills development, we seek to build a new generation of working…