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Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements; Revolutionary movements: see List of revolutions and rebellions; Religious and spiritual movements: see List of religions and spiritual traditions and List of new religious movements
Video footage showed an officer kneeling on the back of Stallings, who is nine months pregnant. In response to the video, demonstrators began protesting outside city hall demanding the resignation of Kansas City Police Department Chief Richard Smith and for the city to redirect 50% of the police department's budget to social services.
Journalist Dan Savage receives a Webby Special Achievement Award in 2011 for his anti-bullying It Gets Better Project, [27] which started on YouTube and drew video responses from the highest levels of government. [28] The anti-bullying It Gets Better Project expanded from a single YouTube video directed to discouraged or suicidal LGBT teens. [29]
During pretrial hearings in January, prosecutors played a video of Enamorado livestreaming himself outside the Pomona Police Department, where he demanded to speak with an on-duty watch commander.
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 .
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.
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]
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.