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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 intersection was held as an occupation protest by people who had erected barricades to block vehicular traffic and transformed the space with amenities, social services, and public art of Floyd and that of other racial justice themes. [51] [52] [53] The street intersection reopened to vehicular traffic on June 20, 2021.
Many protests during the civil rights movement were a response to police brutality, including the 1965 Watts riots which resulted in the deaths of 34 people, mostly African Americans. [43] The largest post-civil rights movement protest in the 20th-century was the 1992 Los Angeles riots , which were in response to the acquittal of police ...
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 ...
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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 .
Back in the 1960s, the civil rights movement received the same critiques and was accused of similar divisiveness as today’s climate movement: activists were agitators, the movement was too ...
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.