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Summer Internship for South Asian Youth
Summer Internship for Desi Youth Click here for YP! Summer Application 2014 Organize for Better Schools Organize for Immigrant Rights in your community Build your Leadership Get Paid! DRUM (South Asian Organizing Center) Youth Power! is looking for Desi Youth ages 14-21 (9th & 10th graders will be prioritized) for a leadership development…
To Disbanding of NYPD “Demographics Unit”, Communities Acknowledge Symbolic Step, but Await Real Change
PRESS RELEASE April 15th, 2014 Contact: Fahd Ahmed: 917-744-5526, fahd@drumnyc.org In Response to Disbanding of NYPD “Demographics Unit”, Communities Acknowledge Symbolic Step, but Await Real Change The Demographics Unit mapped every aspect of the lives of NYC Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian Communities, but questions about the actual practices still remain On Tuesday…
Desis Demand End to Deportations on National Day of Action
On National Day of Action, South Asian Immigrants Demand an End to Deportations, and to Grant Administrative Relief On Saturday, April 5th over 120 members of DRUM South Asian Organizing Center, immigrant organizations, and community members rallied in Jackson Heights, Queens as part of the National Day of Action to demand that President Obama end…
DRUM leaders at the 2014 United We Dream National Congress
Over 500 undocumented and immigrant youth leaders from across the country attended the 2014 United We Dream (UWD) National Congress. DRUM leaders attended the Congress which was held from February 21st – 23rd in Phoenix, Arizona. We all met with the purpose of strategizing and determining the fight for the dignity of immigrant families in…
FROM NYC TO PARIS
Monami Maulik of DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving presented at a public forum in Paris about the powerful coalition, Communities united for Police Reform, which has won major victories in reforming the policies that lead to abusive policing. She shared why DRUM, as an organization of low-income South Asians, has been involved in this struggle for…
DRUM Featured on The Muslim Giving Project Fund!
The Muslim Giving Project Fund is a new venture, launched as a volunteer effort out of Stanford University’s d.school, that aims to foster a more dynamic American Muslim giving culture. The Fund is a fiscally sponsored initiative at the Community Initiatives Fund of the California Community Foundation. The MGP Fund provides American Muslims with the…
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Educational Justice Organizer
Job Announcement: EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE ORGANIZER (FULL TIME) Join a multi-generational, social justice organizing center in NYC. DRUM is seeking an experienced, full-time Educational Justice Organizer to build the leadership of low-income South Asian youth in social change. We value proven experience, movement building vision, attention to detail, and a collaborative work ethic. Founded in 2000,…
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…
DRUM 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…
How 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…