Drum-Desis Rising Up And Moving Inc

Programs: 2017 programs:1) south asian workers center - educates and assists low-wage workers to access labor rights, address employment discrimination, and runs legal clinics. 2) youthpower! - educated and builds leadership of low-income immigratn youth to improve access to public education. 3) racial and immigrant justice program - educates, builds leadership, and assists immigrant families to access civil and immigrant rights, and runs legal clinics. 4) gender justice - develops leadership of young women to lead gender justice and social change in their homes, communities, and societies. 5) global justice project - builds coalitions internationally for peace and migrant rights. 2017 accomplishments:a) building hate free zones as an inclusive community defense system/practice in five major neighborhoods in nyc;b) co-led the jfk protests and pushback against the muslimban and refugeeban which built public pressure and led to court rulings that halted the executive orders;c) led the push to formally end and dismantle the nseers (special registrations) program through collecting 300,000+ online petitions, meetings with the white house, and a direct action in washington, dc;d) launched the second year of eckshate, drums membership-led gender justice program, with a second cohort of young women, and now axpanding to cohorts for men and adult women;e) drum members launched movingart, a leadership program that seeks to integrate arts and cultural work into a mass-based organizaing context;f) won announcement of new guidelines from nyc department of education which add moderate protections for students from being detained by ice agents in nyc public schools, with more progress still to be made;g) continued expansion in brooklyn, south queens, and the bronx with regular monthly membership meetings being held every month led by local momber-organizers; h) created and distributed a highly popular guide for reporting ice raids on social media;i) a summer hfz peoples assembly in may with 200+ people focused on community safety;j) mobilizaton in response to workplace death of an undocumented day laborer due to lack of safety precautions and equipment by employer; ~50 people at the vigil at funeral prayer at kensington masjid; now newly recruited day laborer members being channeled into osha classes;k) a public community cafe on womens labor and reclaiming public spaces with over 100 participants;l) a winter hfz peoples assembly in december with 100+ people on community defense;m) won passage of the right to know act in ny city council, which will create further transparency in nypd and civilian encounters, and require explicit consent in unwarranted searches;n) in response to the cancellation of daca programs by the trump administration, drum launched an initiative to protect and secure data; collected from through daca applicants from being used by ice for enforcement purposes. We have done legal research, and arenow developing the plans to make it into a campaign;o) educated over 1,800 adult and youth immigrants directly through workshops and leadership development programs;p) provided services to over 1,000 immigrants related to immigration, housing, health access, education, domestic violence, and other services;q) graduated 50 youth from youth leadership institutes, and over 220 from programs;r) mobilized over 1,400 immigrants for town halls, community forums, and education events on civil rights, immigration reform, and education.