DRUM DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING INC
72-18 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 www.drumnyc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Public Charity - established to educate and organize low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City for immigrant rights, access to education, and social justice. DRUM is a multigenerational, membership led organization. To build power of South Asian low wage immigrant worker

2019 Programs: South Asian Workers Center - Educates and assists low-wage workers to access labor rights, address employment discrimination, and runs legal clinics. Education Justice & YouthPower! Program - Educates and builds leadership of low-income immigrant youth to improve access to public education. Racial & Immigrant Justice Program - Educates, builds leadership, and assists immigrant families to access civil and immigrant rights, and runs legal clinics. Gender Justice Program - Develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, schools, and communities. Hate Free Zones - Builds neighborhood based community defense systems and community safety mechanisms for all people. Global Justice Program - Builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights.2019 Accomplishments: Held a Membership Assembly for the first time in 10 years bringing together over 250 members from all our bases to celebrate our work and envision the next year. Continued the expansion in Brooklyn, South Queens, and the Bronx with regular monthly membership meetings led by local base organizers and member leaders. Conducted public workshops in Brooklyn where Gender Justice Program members screened audio recordings sharing their experiences with gender-based oppression and violence engaging hundreds of community members. Engaged over 500 community members across NYC to fight a proposed borough-based jail expansion and for the need to invest in our communities and not jails. Engaged over 500 community members across NYC to fight a proposed borough-based jail expansion and for the need to invest in our communities and not jails. Graduated 40 youth members from our 19th Annual YouthPower! Summer Youth Organizing Institute and the Gender Justice Cohort with over 250 youth engaged in programs. The Gender Justice Program members organized a Natok street theater play about gender-based violence engaging over 100 community members on various issues of Gender Justice. It has been performed multiple times at various organizational events to educate our broader membership andcommunity. Conducted mass outreach and Know Your Rights trainings across NYC to build community defense and education for 1000s of community members during the immigration raids announced across the US by the Federal Government. DRUM led work locally that built grassroots pressure needed to defeat the citizenship question in the 2020 census and was officially blocked from the 2020 Census after the US Supreme Court ruling. Provided services to over 1200 immigrants related to immigration, housing, health access, education, domestic violence, and other issues. Won the overhaul of punitive NYC Public School discipline policies and the implementation of citywide restorative justice, funding for 85 new social workers, a capping of suspensions to 20 days, and ending arrests and summonses for low-level infractions in NYC public Schools. Won the Greenlight Campaign which extended drivers licenses to all New Yorkers including undocumented immigrants. Won a Class Action Lawsuit resulting in the city having to compensate up to 300 street vendors a total of $188,000 for confiscating and destroying their food carts. Won the fight to prevent Amazon HQ2 from being built in Western Queens which would have displaced thousands of community members. Mobilized over 2000 immigrants for Town Halls, community forums,and education events on civil rights, immigration reform, and education.

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