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ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Mobilization journal; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Changejournal; Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest; Interface: a Journal For and About Social Movements; Social Movements: A Summary of What Works (pdf)
The Downtown Portland "Back the Blue" Rally, organized by members of the Proud Boys and QAnon Movement, sparked violence between right-wing protesters and left-wing counter-protesters. Within an hour of meeting, both sides began pushing, punching, paint-balling, and macing each other.
Social movements are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they promote, resist or undo social change .
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
In comparing past social movements to social movements today, it is clear that many of them have heavily utilized online social media platforms to advance their agendas. With the help of many open source media platforms, such as Creative Commons and P2P Foundation, the public can easily gain access to the essence of these social movements.
2011 Israeli social justice protests; July 2019 Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel; Protests against Benjamin Netanyahu (2020–2021) 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests; 2024 Israeli protests; Italy. No Berlusconi Day (2009) 2012 Sicilian protests; 2013 Italian social protests; Sardines movement (2019–2020) Japan. 2018–2019 Japanese ...
The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy) which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.
The main aim of the successful civil rights movement and other social movements for civil rights included ensuring that the rights of all people were and are equally protected by the law. These include but are not limited to the rights of minorities , women's rights , disability rights and LGBT rights .