Name: Cyrus Fawkes
Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, International Workers Rights
Date of Fieldwork: January 24, 2022
Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):My Social Justice Group
Type of Fieldwork: SJ Presentation
What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :
On Jan 24, my group presented our social justice project to the class. I helped my peers and I also made sure that I worked on each slide. I wasn’t very nervous because I had done a lot of previous research and what I discussed was something that I was enthusiastic and passionate about. One thing that I shared was that, “I was shocked by the Thai fishermen stories and it is definitely something I would like to learn more about. It shocks me that people are getting kidnapped and it’s not stopped yet. There were people interviewed that went through this and they said that they didn’t get to see land for years and had to survive on scraps of fish. The term “Sea slaves” is used to describe them and the whole system is incredibly unethical and illegal.” I hope to interview people working on this topic and find more people so I can learn more and spread the word of these terrible acts.
