Ceranlly Serrano Rodriguez
10/05/2021
Respond #5
In the article “How To Think Like An Activist” by Wendy Syfret he talks about how to think like an activist and the great achievements that have happened in history. It explains how activists make the modern world of how not so long ago activists created the world in which we live, how every freedom, security and right that we have obtained is thanks to a person who decided to protest and fight for the rights we have today. Also a result of an activist would come being the right and freedom that we women have today. Something that caught my attention a lot about the article that can compare to my snapshot #5 was the paragraph “when young people speak, the world listen” here explains how we young people give activists the ability to be heard since we are a fresh voice and to have the ability to break discourses differently since we see things in a different way. Despite not having the experience as an activist a young person can make up for it with ingenious ways of working, thinking, inspiring action and getting attention from others. And I relate this part of the article with my snapshot #5 since in my country there were many cases of corruption and the people but more the young people were tired of the abuse that the rulers and the president were doing therefore a mass of young people began to create movement and protest against corruption in my country and not only protested in the Dominican Republic what I am most proud of was that it expanded throughout the world thousands of young people went to face their country including me for a better future for their family despite not living there, but we did it for a change and a better future. Thanks to this protest we managed to get rid of the corrupt government that has been governing for more than 10 years and as in the article it says in the paragraph “A Generation Online ” as many millennials and gen Z generation joined through the networks to organize these protests via social networks and using hashtags. And not only the type of protest in my country also and seen how other countries like Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia have done the same for the change of their country, on the other hand we can also see a great example of ahce little as the death of George Floyd created the movement “Black Live Matter” that thanks to technology and social networks came to light the videos in which changed the world since we can see how this man was abused by the police.
About the movie “knock down the house” I was very moved to see young women fight for the rights of us women and other needs in today’s society such as raising the minimum wage, creating more medical insurance, gender equality, etc. This moved me a lot since she is a young Latina with whom I identify a lot and I am proud to see how young she achieves what she has today. and does for us. For me it was an inspiring film since I saw how young women fight to obtain the security, freedom, and rights of us the minority and how we can see all the work and sacrifice of each one.
