In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.
As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.
It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.
I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
I am one of the facilitators, helping to make the voice of Hongkongers heard in the international community. I also organize student class boycotts and provide assistance for high school students.
