Name: Sasha

Social Justice Group: Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Proliferation

Date of Fieldwork: January 12, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s): the United Nations

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What did I do. and what did I learn about my topic, activism, social justice work, or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

Today we went on a tour of the United Nations. On our tour, we saw the General Assembly, the Security Council meeting room, and the economics and sustainability. I personally found it fascinating to see these meeting rooms where world leaders meet and discuss real problems, on our visit I saw some amazing things such as gifts that were given to the U.N by other countries such as one from Italy called Sphere within a sphere, and one commemorating the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the middle passage. I found it fascinating to see the places where world leaders come together to dispute and resolve real problems, even when we went on Friday, the U.N’s court was hearing a case. So just to know that constant decisions are being made and that people are coming together to try to make the world a better place is very reassuring. I think that the thing that I was amazed by the most apart from the halls, was that recently the U.N had sent peacekeepers ( I don’t know if that’s right ) to a place in Africa that had a beach filled with so much plastic and trash that kids going to school couldn’t cross it. so the U.N came in and cleaned it all up and then used that same plastic from the beach to make bricks that they then used to rebuild those kid’s schools so they fit together like Lego bricks with no cement needed and they last until the end of time practically which I found incredible.