Yesterday, a federal judge blocked the The Trump Administration’s effort to intimidate immigrant communities by adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census form. The addition of this question would have led to the loss of billions of dollars for important services and infrastructure that everyone benefits from like health care, housing, schools, public spaces, political representation and voting.

                December 9th 2018 – DRUM members and organizers spent the day talking to our communities in Kensington about the the “Public Charge” changes the Trump Administration is proposing, to discuss the risks that are real and the risks that are not Over 6 hours of conversations on…

    November 26 2018 – DRUM members mobilized in the cold rain for an action in LIC, the proposed site of the Amazon’s headquarters, to oppose this monstrosity that will destroy and displace our communities DRUM leader Nilesh spoke at the action saying: “New York City is not only giving $3 billion in subsidies,…

                                                        October 12 & 13th 2018 – This past weekend, over 80 DRUM members took over Diversity Plaza to hold a 2-day public education workshop on Census 2020,…

  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…

                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,…

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…

  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    

                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…

  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…