Hi everyone!
I have started this website, Together One Earth, to advocate for social justice. In addition to writing this blog, I will be posting poems, essays, drawings, and pictures around social justice. I know social justice is a broad topic, but I am committed to all forms of justice–for the earth, animals, and people. I think that they’re all connected.
As my first blog post, I want to talk about two topics. First, my family and I marched in the Women’s March in Seattle, January 21st, 2017. I thought it was amazing how many people came to march. I saw girls, women, men, and people of many different races. I know it’s an experience I will never forget. I’m proud that I was part of a movement that will make history–a movement that will effect change and a wake up call, if Trump being president wasn’t enough. I have pictures of the march in the pictures section of my website.
I also want to talk about the Dakota Access Pipeline. It will affect the environment in many harmful ways, and will hurt sacred Native American land. For so long the Native Americans and their struggles have been kept hidden. Some textbooks still say positive things about people like Christopher Columbus and the 20 generals with medals of honor for the Wounded Knee massacre. That has to change. Many people think that the struggles of Native Americans are “history”, but the Native Americans’ struggles are not over. They still face tragedy and hardship every single day. The idea behind the US is we are the land of the free. However, this is not all true. The Native Americans were the start of the history of injustice in our country. There has been so much other injustice centered around power dynamics in our country and around the world–the Holocaust, the Jim Crow laws, Japanese Incarceration, women’s voting rights, the criminal justice system, the 2016 election, Islamophobia, immigration, LGBTQ+, animal rights. My humanities teacher tells me to always ask the question, “whose story is not being told?” The list goes on and on.
I hope that you will continue to read my blog.