Our Movement Is for the Long Haul: Ten Years of DRUM’s Community Organizing by Working-Class South Asian Migrants

Monami Maulik
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This article challenges the perception that September 11 marked the beginning of the struggle for justice for all South Asians, Arabs, or Muslims in the United States. As Monami Maulik, the founder and executive director of Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM), explains, her group had for nearly ten years prior to the 2001 terrorist attacks been immersed in the immigration and law-enforcement crisis in working-class communities of color. The existence of such an organization debunks the falsehood that undocumented immigrants or members of the working class, especially Muslims, could not be organized in a political manner. Nonetheless, in exploring the effects of September 11, the author makes it clear that the 2001 terrorist attacks did force a new consciousness among South Asians. As a leader of DRUM, she quickly realized that new strategies were required to fight the struggles that low-wage South Asian workers and youth faced, and that different struggles had to be taken into account. Consequently, DRUM uses as its key tactics the cross-mobilization of their efforts with other marginalized and suppressed communities within the United States and the rooting of American struggles in conversations about global justice.
我们的运动是长期的:南亚工人阶级移民的十年DRUM社区组织
有人认为9月11日标志着为所有在美国的南亚人、阿拉伯人或穆斯林争取正义的斗争的开始,本文对此提出质疑。正如Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)的创始人兼执行董事莫纳米·莫利克(Monami Maulik)所解释的那样,她的组织在2001年恐怖袭击之前的近十年里,一直沉浸在有色人种工人阶级社区的移民和执法危机中。这样一个组织的存在揭穿了无证移民或工人阶级成员,特别是穆斯林不能以政治方式组织起来的谬论。尽管如此,在探讨911事件的影响时,作者明确指出,2001年的恐怖袭击确实迫使南亚人产生了一种新的意识。作为民族解放阵线的领导人,她很快意识到需要新的策略来对抗低工资的南亚工人和青年所面临的斗争,并且必须考虑到不同的斗争。因此,DRUM使用交叉动员他们与美国其他边缘化和受压迫社区的努力作为其关键策略,并在关于全球正义的对话中扎根美国的斗争。
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