Activism in Atlanta

I did a search for “activism 101” yesterday, and found an episode of the podcast While Black, recorded in 2019, interviewing an activist called City. City does activism in Atlanta, Georgia, with a current focus on police brutality. I listened to it today, and jotted down some notes when the interviewer asked for three things that someone who wants to get involved in activism should do (35-40 minutes into the podcast):

• Find what problem that you are going to be passionate about.
  • Half of the people only find problems that everyone is talking about, but are not passionate about it 

• Find your organization that is already working on that problem.
  • You don’t have to join them, but you can work along side them

• Put yourself in a position where economically your problem can be fixed
  • Make sure that your livelihood is not affected
  • Have something or someone that can take care of you/family

• Everyone is needed – even social media activists

• You need goals
  • If you don’t have that, you will be running around with your head cut off