After watching the film and reading the text I define activism as strategic movement to help bring changes to different communities and fight for everyone. Activism is not just a movement you throw yourself in without any planning. The way activism works is with thoughtful planning and strategic ideas that can help get the word to many people and inspire others to also fight. Even if you don’t get others to fight or do physical activism you can inspire others to educate themselves and others on specific matters. For activism TO work and move forward it HAS to be planned for example in the text ‘ How To Think Like An Activist ‘ by Wendy Syfret it gives multiple ideas on how you can get the word out there from connecting to other people , to watching documentaries to even taking advantage of todays modern world and the youth through social media and different technologies.

The film that I decided to watch was ‘ Knock Down The House ‘ a full feature film. This film follows four women who want to run for congress in their respected states. I picked this film because I knew the most about AOC and actually support her. The film shows the strategic planning on wanting to run as representative. It gives the backstory on all of the women and their motivations on wanting to becomes candidates and how a women has to work twice as hard as a man to even be respected when wanting to go in that field and how they are judged harder than the men. The activism I saw in the film mostly came from AOC since she was the center focus of attention in this film. Every move she made with her campaign was strategic from where she wants to mostly promote her campaign to the tiniest detail in design on her flyer. Explaining the difference between an organizer and a strategist. She is a everyday American and wanted to fight for the working class everyday American. The activism I saw was how she inspired many people to support her and how community groups would help fund her and push her forward. She connected with everyone and spoke to everyone regardless of who you were.

I am not a physical activist (marches , protests ect.) however I do carry the conversations along with friends and family. The only time I participated in physical activism was in high school when we decided to do a walk out and give a minute of silence to every victim that was killed in the Parkland School Shooting. Our school got upset and actually gave everyone an hour of detention. The ways i’ve decided to start participating in activism is by taking up space. I talk about my beliefs with my friends and have very informing discussions with them about multiple different topics from current ones that affect everyday life like gender and the sexes to trendy topics as well. With this i’ve helped my friends educate themselves and get them engaged in interesting conversations.