Hello Steemit community! My name is Neal and I am an artist and human right activist. I am also trying to become more educated in cryptocurrencies, as I see it as an opportunity for the activist community to start transitioning away from harmful aspects of our social system.
In the art world, I am currently trying to establish myself an an Original Art Variant comic books cover artist. I will be doing my first ComiCon next month to display my work, sell prints, and take commissions. 
I also am a freelance Photoshop professional, and do a lot of digital painting and design. When possible, I try to combine my interests as well to create imagery related to criticizing and improving our social system. 
My passion for human rights began in about 2007/2008. I used to be a typical voter of whatever choices the establishment provided, and went along with the status quo mentality. But, the more I learned about our social system, the more I realized how harmful it is to humanity and our home planet. I started an online group called Common Ground Project.
The main premise of CGP when I created it back in 2011 was to unify all activists who have problems with the general structure of the establishment, and once unified, opt out of the establishment completely in order to pursue new social systems. Ive created a few spin off groups, like the Native First Peoples Project, and Hood/Rise Project – both of which would be the similar goal of unifying Native Reservations, and poor neighborhoods that are plagued with poverty and violence, and, and opting out of the system in order to recreate their own communities that actually work for them. I do see it as a piece meal project – it seems like Ill have to work with each group individually (activists, Native American communities, Hood communities) until I can get them to talk to each other. But, I think people are so sick of this system, they could be interested in ideas involving leaving this current system alone, and working with like minded individuals on building new models. And it doesn’t have to be one idea – I think multiple types of social systems could be exist in various regions. At the end of the day, the ones that are most rational will succeed, and the least rational will disappear. The point is to create the freedom for people to attempt to live in the manor that seems logical to them. You could see RBE, anarchist, sovereign, and other various ideas all being tried at once in different places. Then we could actually see which of these ideas could work, or not. If it can’t be put to the test, then we’ll never know.
So, as you can see, I have a lot of interests and a lot of work to do! I'm happy to be part of the next generation of social networking.
Hope you're all well!
Wow, this definitely is the type of community Ive been looking for! Thank you all for the kind words and support! Im sure Ill be making a lot of friends here
@enjay That's some dope art. I am an activist of sorts too. Check out my introduceyourself video I posted last night.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bigpay/introduction-to-my-show-steemit-exclusive-the-miggie-show-presented-by-big-pay-productions
Thanks man! I'll definitely check out your vid
Welcome to Steem @enjay I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Thank you botty!
welcome....! i have upvoted and following you now! do the best @kunani
Good post! I'm going to follow you to see more post like this and for support us!
Welcome to steem it, I have found that the first few weeks here are the most overwhelming and it can be rather daunting doing it all on your own, during my searches about the wild oceans of steem I found a little project called MSP, (MinnowSupport Project), I ended up joining this fantastic community and they have helped me grow to where I am today. I just wish someone had mentioned them on my first post.
We are a very supporting network of diverse individuals and I am sure you will find someone to befriend and grow alongside.
We run our own chat service on discord here, https://discord.gg/yWn29K3
Enjoy the vote and I hope to see you soon,
Take care @sammosk
First, let me welcome you to steemit! :)
Second, just to help you: repost this post, but with the tag: introduceyourself -> more people will see it :)
Third, I liked your intro, and I hope to see a lot of post from you :p I'm against the actual system, and I think it's doing more harm than good, so I think even if not an activist, my ideas are somewhat similar to yours, so... I'll follow you!
And, last but not least, I like your art ;)
Good luck, and welcome on Steemit :D
Thank you much remic! I just added the intro tag! Thanks for commenting
You're welcome ;)
Hello Neal, welcome to Steemit family and our ever-growing platform. You have made a great decision by joining us and helping us to create decentralized entity that will change the way social media and other business models work in the future. I would like to help you out in your early days by using my steem power to upvote your first few posts. Simply follow my account and tag me by @czechglobalhosts in your posts and I will make sure to read your post and upvote you! Good luck and steem on! Tomas
Hi @enjay very nice introducing ,welcome here! 😁
And i am pretty sure that great artist is always very welcome on Steemit .
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Hi Neal, nice to meet you here... nice intro post... I respect you for having passion for human rights.... You are multi talented person... I upvoted you.....You will definitely do great here as a steemian...Follow me @onority
Welcome to Steemit Neal. Very nice artwork, we can always use more original artists here.
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Welcome to steemit @enjay. Great intro, looking foward to read your stuff.
Cheers from Ecuador.
@filmtraveller
A new Steemian :-) hello @enjay I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I Have upvoted and will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk
Thank you my friend! Look forward to future discussion!
Welcome!! Sooooooo happy to have you here EnJay!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!
There she is! This is awesome
I concur...finally a good fb buddy here!!! xoxooxoxx I really look forward to this!!