At the Museum we met our tour guide and they taught us about activism in New york. I learned about many different strategies used to protest and make change. I really liked how they made art be a type of social protest, and how Black Lives Matter protests make really creative signs to try and make change. I couldn’t believe that 1 in 20 train stations are accessible to people with disabilities. New York says all train stations will be accessible by around 2035. That is 11 years from now. I couldn’t imagine how hard it is for people in wheelchairs or people with other disabilities to use trains or transport around New York. Right now I use a car to get around because I’m currently in crutches and I know I am very lucky to have a car in New York because not many people have one. I saw a few acts of activism that I have learned about before, such as Rosa Park not sitting at the back of the bus, and the transgender activists starting the gay pride parade.

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Today we went to the UN, and we went to the majority of the meeting rooms and saw how they organize them, sometimes based on the color of the chairs, and sometimes based on the rankings of the people. We saw some artifacts from the Nagasaki bombing. We also saw some artifacts that had been salvaged from the bombing, including a statue of a woman. it was face down, so if you looked at the back it was completely melted. One of my favorite things that we saw was a brick that had been made out of compacted plastic. it was really cool to see on the screen that they had managed to make a building for the children to learn in and be safe. for some reason, it kinda reminded me of the hunger games or the perge.

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