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The Portland Drum Collective is a non-profit organization that provides the back beat for a broad
range of social and political struggles in our local
community. Most of the drum corps members participate
and/or assume leadership roles in other activist organizations
including the War Resisters League, Jobs with Justice,
the East Timor Action Network, Jewish Voice for Peace,
the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, Art and Revolution
and Critical Mass.
We see the drum corps as primarily supportive and inspirational
to organizing efforts already in progress. We have participated
in countless local street actions protesting
war and militarism, racism and police misconduct, economic
injustice and environmental plunder; and we have joined
in solidarity with neighborhood organizations, immigrant
groups, farmworkers, janitors and others in the labor
movement. For nearly six years, the No War Drum Corps
has also faithfully provided the back-beat for weekly
Friday evening pro-peace and justice rallies in downtown
Portland.
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