This week’s activity easily made me emotional and had me wanting to join a movement to be able to be vocal on certain subjects and to be able to contribute to some change. I watched United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, a movement that was based on the AIDS epidemic and the impact the movement had on society during the 1990s. This video educated me on things I honestly had no clue about and at some point, while watching the documentary I teared up because I could not imagine living in that time where people with aids did not get decent human treatment, not only that but having family and friends pass away due to the neglect the CDC, FDA and all these organizations had for the Aids epidemic. In the end I realize that people now owe all this improvement because of the work and effort people must go through back then. The people who joined then and made a change, where people now can get treated and know that they will survive. The 90s was a tough time because there was something in politics and health that needed to be change and the video really show case every trial and tribulation the movement went through to get fair treatment for those who had aids, women, and humans in general. Overall, the activist for the ACT UP movement voiced out their troubles, their concerns and their wants and worked hard to get there without their voices they would not be heard. This made me want to be more involved and educated in things like the way ACT UP activists involved themselves more in the aid’s movement.  

Moving on to “How to Think Like an Activist” by Wendy Syfre, she spoke about how one can educate themselves as activist and how has society change in ways like the internet for example. With this reading there were a couple of things that catch by attention and made me just say to myself “she is speaking facts,” for example “the way we have been living is not sustainable anymore and the solutions that have been offer don’t go far enough.” This to me could not be any more truth as a society we get offer the bare minimum from the same people that need us and are in power but will not make any effort to help. Wendy Syfre explains the power youth has and ways we can start being more part of the community while providing some movements that are show case now due to the power the internet has. “How to Think Like an Activist” is an informative read for someone who wants to be more involve and voice out their opinion but do not know how and where, it provides background but also what is going on currently and what change if we start not to make a change.