Activism in PR
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Why I Decided To Be The Guardian Of The Beaches And Rivers In Puerto Rico
Why I Decided To Be The Guardian Of The Beaches And Rivers In Puerto Rico Hello My name is Jivan and I have been living on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico for the past 8 years and for the past five years I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico as I grew tired of seeing this beautiful world of ours inundated with trash. I would walk around with my many signs every week at various beaches and rivers around the beautiful island of Puerto Rico to raise awareness to the people about the destruction we continue to cause by leaving the beaches,…
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How I Visualize My Environmental Signs At the Beaches And RIvers Of Puerto RIco
Metaphorically speaking, as I walk around with my signs, I visualize my signs as walking around with 2 white gloves slapping people around, just slapping some sense into the people. I challenge you to a duel! SLAP! SLAP! I view it as challenging the people to start taking action to start changing their ways and awaken them to the world that they have become to numb to see or realize. I want to plant seeds of change and hoping that those seeds will bloom. Some will choose to be ignorant and continue their ways, but deep down I am hopeful that the slap will remain etched in their heads. I…
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What It Means To Be An Earth Warrior
What it means to be an Earth Warrior I have been living in Puerto Rico for about 8 years and I have been protesting with my signs around this beautiful island to raise awareness to the trash people throw all over this paradise. You could read and view pictures of my plight here. My plight would have me go to 5 different beaches all in one day. As I would walk down through these beaches I would collect any trash I would find along the way. I would go to the beaches and raised awareness with my many signs for humanities neglect of Mother Earth and from there my journey…
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The One Trash Bag Challenge To Change Our Environment
The One Trash Bag Challenge To Change Our Environment Hi there my beautiful wild souls. For over the past 5 years I have been walking around the beautiful beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico with signs to raise awareness to the trash people would leave behind. As I went along the beaches and rivers, I would clean whatever garbage I found as I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers here and I think we could all be the the guardian of where ever we may be. UPDATE! I wrote this in 2015 and now I see that now in 2019 people are doing a challenge to…
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VIDEO: How I Raised Awareness To Litter At The Beaches And Rivers Of Puerto Rico
VIDEO: How I Raised Awareness To Litter At The Beaches And Rivers Of Puerto Rico For over the last 5 years I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers of the beaches here in the paradise that is Puerto Rico. Down below this post you will find a video of what I did for those who never seen what I do on weekly and mostly daily basis as I would carry my signs to many beaches and rivers here to raise awareness to the trash people would leave behind. I tried my best to visit as many beaches and rivers as I could so that I could…
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We Are The Earth That We Walk On And The species That Call It Home
We Are The Earth That We Walk On And The species That Call It Home Here is a protest campaign I did here in the beautiful tropical island of Puerto Rico. As long as I am on this earth, I will stand up and be the voice of the voiceless. The thing is the earth and the different species that call it home have a voice but we don’t listen. We have our heads to busy in the sand, too busy chasing the wrong shade of green. I find this protest to be sort of art in motion. Poetic justice. I walk around every week and as many days as…
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Why What I Did For The Beaches Of Puerto Rico Is A Lost Cause
Why What I Did For The Beaches Of Puerto Rico Is A Lost Cause Revised July 28, 2020 I am currently living on the island of Puerto Rico where I have resided for over the past 9 years. For the past 6 years, I have been on an ongoing mission protesting in various beaches and rivers on this island with my signs as I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers. Click here to read why. My goal My goal was to educate and raise awareness to the people from all the litter that they leave behind at the beaches and rivers and so that they can…
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Watch What Happens When Humanity Ignores Garbage (Short Film)
Watch What Happens When Humanity Ignores Garbage Here is a video Raising awareness to pollution. When i arrive to the beach, the first thing i do is look around and pick up any garbage that there might be. Anything going into the ocean or anything that can be blown by the wind into the ocean, cups, bags. It is our responsibility to take action and keep our world clean. Whatever we can do, no matter how small. It still makes an impact and we have to be the collective dents to make a big enough impact and that can only happen if we all work together. Work towards bettering our…
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WATCH: When Birds Eat Plastic
I protest for those who can’t speak for themselves as I wrote in this blog. Time to start making a change in our world. I think we need to stop using plastic, stop accepting plastic bags in the store, stop using plastic cups. We do live in a world that it has become unavoidable to use plastic. But if we can reduce our way of consumption we can start making the changes and we must find alternatives to plastic, such as cannabis hemp where we can make biodegradable plastic.
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Why I protested Standing On A Toilet On A Beach In Puerto Rico
On the summer of 2015, I was astounded to find a toilet in a beautiful beach here in Puerto Rico. People sat next to it as if it was a normal fixture to nature and there it stood for a week or 2 at the same spot. After a while, I had enough and I removed the toilet from the sandy area and at first I tried to lift that toilet to take it out but the smelly toilet was filled with what I believed as urine, perhaps even poop and garbage and all that liquid started to leak out of the bottom and onto my leg. So as enraged…