Danny Glover sits down for this Al Jazeera Fault Lines interview to talk about the activism that runs alongside his acting career in films like Lethal Weapon and The Color Purple. He traces it back to 1968, when he was a student at San Francisco State University and joined the Black Students Union and the Third World Liberation Front in the longest campus strike in US history, a strike that led to the country's first school of ethnic studies. From there the conversation moves through the causes he has attached his name to since: HIV/AIDS awareness, union organizing with UNITE HERE on behalf of hospitality workers, and advocacy for Palestinian rights, including a 2009 delegation trip to the region. Glover also discusses his 2011 arrest at a protest against a natural gas pipeline in Maryland. Throughout, he lays out how he sees the relationship between celebrity and organizing, and why he treats protest and arrest as part of the job rather than a departure from it.