Intervention 3 Luke Andaya

     The issue that I have chosen for the third intervention is the ongoing Asian hate crimes here in American that has been spiking up the last year or so. This issue is very important to me because I myself am a Asian American and every time I am on the news or scrolling through social media recently, I have been seeing more and more of the same issuing popping up; people are committing horrendous hate crimes against Asian Americans, more specifically elderly people, and have left them either extremely hurt or even dead. What's even worse is that these crimes have started to show up in NYC which is not to far from Jersey City. A few of my family members actually work by these areas and it makes me more stressed and worried that it might happen to one of my own family members, and I wouldn't be there to at least try to protect them. 

       I have chosen to use the social media app, Twitter, to voice out a few of my opinions on the matter and have used hashtags to try and grab a broader audience as seen with the pictures above. I feel as though raising awareness and creating advocacy through social can help people become motivated to speak out against injustice and make change because people are backed up by millions of other people on social media apps like twitter and Instagram who also have the same opinion as them. So each individual wouldn't feel alone whenever they voice out their opinions out online and can be apart of something big.