Name: Kian

Social Justice Group: Climate Change: Rising Sea Levels / Plastic Pollution

Date of Fieldwork: January 12, 2024

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

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

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

When visiting the United Nations, our class met with a tour guide that toured us around the United Nations complex. We visited three main assembly halls while they were empty: The Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the General Assembly hall where leaders from all countries around the world meet annually. In front of the Security Council room, there was a mural that caught my eye called “Mankind’s Struggle for a Lasting Peace.” On the left portion of the mural, there are people suffering and dying in war, representing the past, before the United Nations was founded. In the middle they are reconstructing, representing the present during the founding of the United Nations. On the left, there are healthy and prospering people, representing the future after the UN has helped.