DRUM (Desis Rising Up Moving) is a community-based social justice organization of working class South Asians immigrants in New York City founded in 1999. Our mission is to organize low-income South Asian immigrant for immigrant, racial, and social justice on critical local struggles and their global roots. DRUM is committed to centralizing base building community organizing to build power of low-income communities . DRUM’s organizing campaigns centralize the direct leadership of undocumented immigrants, immigrant workers and their families affected by deportation detention, and working class youth in the struggle for local and global justice.