i am an activist!
i am an activist and so as everyone else.
activism is an act intentionally done to cause an effect or to create a social or political change and sometimes, simply a change and so therefore those who practice such can be cansidered as an activist.
it is often a misconception among Filipinos specially those coming from the youth sector that activist are only those you often see on main streets of metro manila holding their banners chanting their personalized agites and marching to either the historical EDSA shrine because of people power revolution during the fall of Marcos regime or to Mendiola, known for the Mendiola massacre.
they may not be aware that even if without being a part of any organization bearing a political orientation, one can still be considered as an activist.
would you agree to me if i say that each and everyone of us are in one way or another, in one point in our lives, have become an activist ourselves?
whenever we ask our mother or even our father to increase our school allowance for it can no longer sustain our expenses that gets bigger and bigger as we approach the end of every semester is of no different from the act of Filipino workers who clamor for the P125 wage increase and the P3000 across the board wage increase for the government employees due to the present economic decline. the latter is considered as act of an activist therefore we can conclude that the former is also act of an activist.
likewise in the case of our mother, everytime she buys something from the market and she ask for this so called "tawad" from the vendors because of budget constraint, it is not far different with the act of the public utility vehicle operators and drivers asking for a roll backs on the price of petroleum for there is only little left for their families considering that there is no fare hike.
what i am trying to say is that there is nothing wrong being an activist provided we do it not just for our own benifit but as well as that of our countrymen and that we must not be subjective and judgemental but rather be objective and critical in terms of creating an impressions and perceptions towards them for we may never know that sometimes, somehow, consciously or unconsciously we practice the act of an activist.
i am an activist…are you an activist, too?
if someone wish to make any comments or sugestions on this please feel free to do so provided you do it constructively. thank you for reading!
