RESISTING REPRESSION:
Building Worker Power and Defending Immigrants' Rights in 2025 and Beyond
A breakfast conversation with Kazi Fouzia of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
9:00am - 10:30am
Free and open to all. A light breakfast will be served.
*In-person* only in Midtown Manhattan:
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor, New York, NY 10036 (map)
REGISTER: https://slucuny.swoogo.com/29April2025/register
Join us for a breakfast conversation with Kazi Fouzia, Organizing Director at Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), to learn more about their victories and challenges fighting to build power and defend the rights of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean workers under unprecedented attacks on immigrant communities.
About DRUM:
(from: drumnyc.org/about-us)
DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving - is a multigenerational, membership-led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants, workers and youth in New York City. Founded in 2000, DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, civil rights, and worker’s justice. Our membership of over 5,000 adults, youth, and families is multigenerational and represents the diaspora of the South Asian communities – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and beyond. In over a decade, we have built a unique model of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean undocumented workers, women, and youth led organizing for rights and justice from the local to the global.
