After reading and watching the film about activism I define activism as people coming together as a community together to change the world forever.

When watching the film United in Anger, I’ve many people shown anger and expressed it through peaceful protest, one of the protests I saw is about people joining together during the aids crisis to stop policies to threaten people who are sick with aids as if they’re a “danger to society” and all people are doing is fighting for their lives. In the film, they show people that reunited together and show the timeline of different protests through the different timelines, for example on October 11th, 1988 there were people who are protesting for Seize control of the FDA. It was Act up’s first national demonstration that forces the food and drug administration to approve and release drugs faster. In this film I notice that most people during the 80s were fighting not only for gay rights, but health in the gay community along with being feel like even though people who had aids were sick they want to be cure and be treated just like everybody else. When watching these activists fight for their rights, they’re using their voice and their action in a peaceful protest in order to fight for their rights. The reason why I added the word peaceful is because when I read “How to think like an activist.” I read a section from the French Revlution, sometimes activist are known to take justice whether it’s violent or not, in the french revolution, if anybody had disagree in what King Louis XVI ruled they would be excuted because of Louis abusing his power, this lead to the people putting him in the guiliting, killing him. When it comes with activism they tend to use their words or put action into something they’re fighting for whether it’s human rights or animal rights.

Growing up I was never engaged with activism until during pride and around the summer in Union Square where people were fighting for black lives matter, it was kinda scary at first because I’ve seen so many protest gone wrong by cops because they either arrest them for no reason; tased them; pepper spray, etc. I was with friends and I’ve felt safe being with friends and being with people who were willing to protect people in the group and the longer I join the movement the more I felt safe and fighting along with it. It was the best experience I ever had and because of my friend joining a lot of protest she decided to become an activist one there and I will be there to support as I begin to start my career as a forsenic psychologists. I just don’t know if you can do both and if you can then I will glad to not only become a forsenic psychologist but an activist too.