- Fabian kept saying that we can't ask the people we are working with to be vulnerable immediately. I really appreciated that, actors are often asked to be vulnerable with people they don't know and we perform in front of strangers and that's really difficult and I really liked that Fabian acknowledged how difficult that is and said that we have to be gentle with people who aren't used to that.
- I mostly grew up in LA and I've witnessed the gentrification of it and I've had friends in similar situations to Fabian and there's been gentrification in my hometown. So I really liked that Fabian acknowledged that doing art in his community and engaging his community in that art is an important tool to help combat gentrification and displacement in communities.
- I loved hearing Fabian talk about his family, specifically his mother. I loved that he really stressed how important family is to him and how important family is to young people and their development as they grow up.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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