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International Campaign to Ban Landmines
In 1991, as the annual number of noncombative landmine victims reached 20,000, discussions among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced with responding to the devastation wrought within civilian communities caused by leftover anti-personnel land-mines (APL) led to decisive ...
- Activism and Social Justice
- Activism, Social and Political
- Advocacy
- Alternative Movements
- Boycotts and Divestment
- Civil Disobedience
- Coalition Building
- Community Organizing
- Cooperatives
- Direct Action
- Dissent
- Lobbying
- Nonviolence and Activism
- Philanthropy for Social Action
- Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
- Social Movements, Sociology of
- Strategies and Tactics in Social Movements
- Third-Party Politics
- Urban Uprisings, United States
- Utopian Communities
- The Arts
- Literature
- Testimonio
- Achebe, Chinua
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Baldwin, James
- Baraka, Amiri
- Beat Poets
- Brutus, Dennis
- Camus, Albert
- Dalton, Roque
- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
- Dickens, Charles
- Dorfman, Ariel
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hikmet, Nazim
- Hughes, Langston
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Literature and Activism
- Miller, Arthur
- Morrison, Toni
- Neruda, Pablo
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Wilfred
- Piercy, Marge
- Political Humor
- Political Satire
- Rand, Ayn
- Rich, Adrienne
- Rushdie, Salman
- Sinclair, Upton
- Slam Poetry
- Social Science Fiction
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Twain, Mark
- Vidal, Gore
- Walker, Alice
- Whitman, Walt
- Zola, Émile
- Music
- Baez, Joan
- Belafonte, Harry
- Benefit Concerts
- Bono
- Dylan, Bob
- Guthrie, Woody
- Hip-Hop
- Jara, Víctor
- Kuti, Fela
- La Nueva Canción
- Lennon, John
- Marley, Bob
- Parra, Violeta
- Protest Music
- Punk
- Rage Against the Machine
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson
- Robeson, Paul
- Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Rock Bands and Activism
- Seeger, Pete
- Sosa, Mercedes
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Theodorakis, Mikis
- Union Songs
- Performing Arts
- Salt of the Earth
- Boal, Augusto
- Bread and Puppet Theater
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Dance and Activism
- Davis, Ossie
- Film
- Fonda, Jane
- Gómez-Peña, Guillermo
- Guerrilla Theater
- Hollywood Blacklists
- Lee, Spike
- Moore, Michael
- Performance Art, Political
- Performativity
- Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
- Political Humor
- Political Satire
- Radical Cheerleaders
- Raging Grannies
- Reverend Billy
- Robeson, Paul
- Sarandon, Susan
- Smith, Anne Deavere
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Third World Cinema
- Working-Class Cinema
- Plastic Arts
- Literature
- Criticism/Critical Theory
- Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
- Bruce, Lenny
- Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Craftivism
- Culture Jammers
- de Certeau, Michel
- Difference
- Dunayevskaya, Raya
- Dussel, Enrique
- Ellacuría, Ignacio
- Foucault, Michel
- Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
- Hip-Hop
- Identity Politics
- Moral Panic
- Multiculturalism
- Other, The
- Performativity
- Postcolonial Theory
- Postmodernism
- Power, Theories of
- Punk
- Radical Cheerleaders
- Raging Grannies
- Resistance
- Reverend Billy
- Semiotic Warfare
- Situationist International
- Straight Edge Youth
- Subaltern
- White Privilege
- Willis, Paul
- Zines
- Consumer Movements
- Education
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Lau Decision
- Algebra Project
- Anti-Racist Teaching
- Bilingual Education
- Citizen School, The
- Counter-Recruitment
- Counts, George
- Critical Literacy
- Critical Pedagogy
- Cuban Literacy Campaign
- Dewey, John
- Disability Rights Movement
- Disability Studies
- Freire, Paulo
- Gender Equity Movement in Schools
- Genocide Studies
- Highlander Center
- Home Schooling
- Kozol, Jonathan
- Media Literacy
- Meier, Deborah
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Moses, Robert
- Multicultural Education
- Multiculturalism
- Ocean Hill–Brownsville Teachers' Strike
- Participatory Action Research
- Peace Education
- Postman, Neil
- Progressive Movement, Education
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Sadker, Myra and David
- Student Activism, K-12
- Student Activism, Latin American
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Teacher Unions
- Think Tanks
- Woodson, Carter
- Youth Organizing and Activism
- Environmentalism
- Alternative Health
- Animal Rights
- Berry, Wendell
- Caldicott, Helen
- Carson, Rachel
- Clamshell Alliance
- Climate Change and Global Justice
- Community Gardens
- Community-Based Ecological Resistance Movements
- Critical Mass Bicycle Movement
- Deep Ecology Movement
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
- Earth Charter
- Earth Day
- Earth First!
- Earth Summit
- Ecofeminism
- Ecopaganism
- Environmental Movement
- Environmental Racism
- Green Party
- Greenpeace
- Hill, Julia Butterfly
- Homeopathy Movement
- Indigenous People and Environmentalism
- Maathai, Wangari
- Mendes, Chico
- Organic Farming and Agribusiness
- Rainforest Action Network
- Rifkin, Jeremy
- Sierra Club
- Silkwood, Karen
- Slow Food Movement
- Solar Energy Movement
- Sustainable Living
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Urban Space, Politics of
- Vegetarianism
- Voluntary Simplicity
- Wilderness Preservation Act
- Globalization/Anti-Globalization
- Amnesty International
- Anti-Globalization Movement
- Anti-Immigrant Politics
- Anti-Imperialism
- Anti-Nuclear Movement
- Anti-Sweatshop Movement
- Battle of Seattle
- Benjamin, Medea
- Bové, José
- Child Advocacy
- Citizenship and Patriotism
- Civil Society
- Corrie, Rachel
- Debt Relief Movement
- Doctors Without Borders
- Fair Trade
- Free Movement Activism
- Genocide Studies
- Genocide Watch
- Global Exchange
- Glocalization
- Klein, Naomi
- Multiculturalism
- Multitude
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- Pan-Africanism
- Rifkin, Jeremy
- Roy, Arundhati
- Stiglitz, Joseph
- War Tax Resistance
- Witness for Peace
- Women in Black
- World Social Forum
- Labor/Socialism/Communism/Social Class
- Communist Manifesto
- Agrarian Socialist Movement
- American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO)
- Anarchism
- Anarcho-Syndicalism
- Berlin Wall destruction
- Bolsheviks
- Castro, Fidel
- Committee for Cleaners' Rights
- Communism
- Cooperatives
- Davis, Angela
- Day, Dorothy
- Debs, Eugene V.
- Democratic Socialism
- Eight-Hour-Day Movement
- Engels, Friedrich
- Eurocommunism
- Fabian Socialism
- False Consciousness
- Farmworkers' Movement
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Goldman, Emma
- Gompers, Samuel
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Guevara, Che
- Harrington, Michael
- Hayden, Tom
- Hill, Joe
- Hormel Strikes
- Income Inequality
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- Jones, Mother (Mary)
- Justice for Janitors
- Keller, Helen
- Labor Culture
- Labor Law
- Lenin, V. I.
- Lewis, John L.
- Ludlow Massacre
- Lukács, Georg
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Marx, Karl
- Marxist Theory
- May Day
- Muste, A. J.
- Non-Partisan League
- Ocean Hill–Brownsville Teachers' Strike
- Old Left
- Owen, Robert
- Palmer Raids
- PATCO Strike
- Pittsburgh Rail Strike of 1877
- Private Property
- Recuperated Factories in Argentina
- Reed, John
- Robeson, Paul
- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Socialist Feminism
- Taxation and Activism
- Teacher Unions
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Thomas, Norman
- Thompson, E. P.
- Trotsky, Leon
- Union Movements
- Union Songs
- UPS Strike
- Wellman, Saul
- West, Cornel
- Wildcat Strikes
- Working-Class Cinema
- Legal and Judicial System/Human Rights/Civil Rights
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Gideon v. Wainright
- Lau Decision
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Roe v. Wade
- Activism in Postconflict and Reconstruction
- Affirmative Action
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Amnesty International
- Anti–Death Penalty Movement
- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
- Bill of Rights
- Campaign to End the Death Penalty
- Child Labor Laws
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Rights Acts
- Clark, Ramsey
- Conscientious Objectors to War
- Cyber Rights
- Darrow, Clarence
- Dees, Morris
- Disability Rights Movement
- Doctors Without Borders
- Draft Resistance
- Drug Laws, Resistance to
- Ethical Culture Movement
- Free Speech Activism
- Homeless Activism
- Human Rights Watch
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- International Criminal Court
- Judicial Activism
- Kunstler, William
- Kurdish Human Rights
- Kyoto Accords
- Law and Social Movements
- League of Nations
- Myrdal, Gunnar
- Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Noncitizen Rights
- Ochoa, Digna
- Oxfam
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Red Cross
- Refugee Resettlement
- Save the Children
- Sex Workers' Rights
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Taxation and Activism
- Treaty Rights Struggle
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Voices in the Wilderness
- War Resisters' International
- War Tax Resistance
- Warren, Earl
- Welfare Rights Movement
- Whistleblowers
- Williams, Jody
- Witness for Peace
- Women in Black
- World Court
- Media and Communications
- http://MoveOn.org
- Adbusters
- Dissent Magazine
- Action for Children's Television
- Air America Radio
- Alternative Press
- Appropriate Technology Movement
- Blogging
- Community Radio and Television
- Culture Jammers
- Cyber Rights
- Digital Activism
- Digital Equity
- Electronic Democracy
- Electronic Privacy Movement
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
- Fisk, Robert
- Free Software Movement
- Goodman, Amy
- Guerrilla Television
- Indymedia
- McLuhan, Marshall
- Media Activism
- Media Literacy
- Media Reform Movement
- Political Humor
- Political Satire
- Political Spectacle
- Polling
- Postman, Neil
- Reed, John
- Situationist International
- Terkel, Studs
- Think Tanks
- Timerman, Jacobo
- Virtual Sit-Ins
- Webb, Gary
- Zines
- ZNet
- Political and Social Movements (Africa)
- Achebe, Chinua
- African National Congress
- African Women and Social Justice
- Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Anti-Colonial Movements, Middle East and North Africa
- Anti-Colonial Movements, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Biko, Stephen
- Brutus, Dennis
- Dow, Unity
- First, Ruth
- Islamic Feminism
- Maathai, Wangari
- Machel, Graça
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mandela, Winnie
- Mau Mau Movement
- Meer, Fatima
- Mohammed, Bibi Titi
- Mongela, Gertrude
- Mtintso, Thenjiwe
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Nkrumah, Kwame
- Pan-Africanism
- Ransome-Kuti, Funmilayo
- Sankara, Thomas
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken
- Tutu, Desmond
- Political and Social Movements (Asia/South Asia/Australia/New Zealand)
- Activism in Australia and New Zealand
- Anti-Colonial Movements, Asia
- Anti-Colonial Movements, South Pacific
- Aquino, Corazon
- Aung San
- Burmese Resistance Movement
- Confucius
- Dalai Lama
- East Timor Action Network
- East Timor, Resistance to Indonesian Occupation
- Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Ho Chi Minh
- Khmer Rouge
- Kwangju Uprising
- Mao Tse-tung
- Mother Teresa
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Philippine People Power Revolution
- Roy, Arundhati
- Rushdie, Salman
- Save Narmada Movement
- Sun Yat-sen
- Suu Kyi, Aung San
- Tiananmen Square
- Political and Social Movements (Europe)
- Anarchism
- Benn, Tony
- Bové, José
- Darwin, Charles
- Djilas, Milovan
- Dubcček, Alexander
- Elizabethan Poor Law
- ETA
- Eurocommunism
- Fabian Socialism
- French Revolution
- Havel, Václav
- Holocaust, Resistance
- Immigrant Activism in France
- Irish Republican Army (IRA)
- Joan of Arc
- May Revolution, France
- Mondragón Cooperatives
- Nazism and Civilian Resistance
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Peace Process
- Popular Front
- Prague Spring
- Resistance
- Robinson, Mary
- Sands, Bobby
- Serbian Civil Unrest
- Solidarity, Poland
- Theodorakis, Mikis
- Trocmé, André
- Wałęsa, Lech
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Political and Social Movements (Former Soviet Union)
- Political and Social Movements (Latin America and Caribbean)
- Testimonio
- Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
- Albizu Campos, Pedro
- Allende, Salvador
- Amaru, Túpac, II
- Anti-Colonial Movements, Latin America
- Arbenz, Jacobo
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Arias, Oscar
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
- Bachelet, Michelle
- Cárdenas, Lázaro
- Castro, Fidel
- Chávez, Hugo
- Cuban Literacy Campaign
- Dalton, Roque
- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
- Dorfman, Ariel
- Dussel, Enrique
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
- Flores Magón, Ricardo
- FMLN
- Freire, Paulo
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Guevara, Che
- Gunder Frank, Andre
- Gutiérrez, Gustavo
- HIJOS, Children of the Disappeared
- López Obrador, Andrés Manuel
- La Nueva Canción
- Laclau, Ernesto
- Landless Movement
- Lebrón, Lolita
- Letelier, Orlando
- Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
- Madres de Plaza de Mayo
- Marcos, Subcomandante
- Marley, Bob
- Martí, José
- Martín-Baró, Ignacio
- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
- Mendes, Chico
- Mexican Muralists
- Mexican Revolution
- Mexican Student Movement
- MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left)
- Morales, Evo
- Neruda, Pablo
- Ochoa, Digna
- Parra, Violeta
- Partido dos Trabalhadores
- Piqueteros
- Popular Unity Government
- Rastifarians
- Recuperated Factories in Argentina
- Romero, Oscar
- Sandinismo
- School of the Americas
- School of the Americas Watch
- Shining Path Movement
- Sosa, Mercedes
- Student Activism, Latin American
- Timerman, Jacobo
- Torres Restrepo, Camilo
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Urban Guerrilla Movements
- Villa, Pancho
- Ya Basta!
- Zapata, Emiliano
- Political and Social Movements (Middle East)
- al-Banna, Hasan
- Anti-Colonial Movements, Middle East and North Africa
- Arafat, Yasser
- Armenian Genocide
- Ashrawi, Hanan
- Awad, Mubarak
- Corrie, Rachel
- Ebadi, Shirin
- Golan Heights Druze Resistance
- Hezbollah
- Hikmet, Nazim
- Intifada (1987–1992, 2000–2003)
- Iranian Revolution (1963–1979)
- Iraq Women's Movement
- Islamic Feminism
- Israeli Peace Movement
- Jihad
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Nasrallah, Hassan
- New Profile
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Palestine National Council
- Rabin, Yitzhak
- Saadawi, Nawal El
- Said, Edward
- Women in Black
- Zionism
- Political and Social Movements (North America)
- http://MoveOn.org
- Abolitionist Movements
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- ACORN
- African American
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Abernathy, Ralph
- Abolitionist Movements
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Afrocentricity
- Ali, Muhammad
- Anti-Lynching Movement
- Baker, Ella
- Baldwin, James
- Baraka, Amiri
- Basquait, Jean-Michel
- Belafonte, Harry
- Bell, Derrick
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power
- Brown, H. Rap
- Brown, John
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Chisolm, Shirley
- Civil Rights Movement
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Conyers, John, Jr.
- Critical Race Theory
- Davis, Angela
- Davis, Ossie
- Dellums, Ronald
- Douglass, Frederick
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Edelman, Marion Wright
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Evers, Medgar
- Farrakhan, Louis
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- Garvey, Marcus
- Gregory, Dick
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Hampton, Fred
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- hooks, bell
- Hughes, Langston
- Jackson, George
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jordan, Barbara
- King, Coretta Scott
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kwanzaa
- Lee, Barbara
- Locke, Alain
- Malcolm X
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Million Man March
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Morrison, Toni
- Moses, Robert
- Muhammad, Elijah
- Nation of Islam
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Urban League
- Newton, Huey P.
- Pan-Africanism
- Parks, Rosa
- Poor People's Campaign
- Randolph, A. Philip
- Rastifarians
- Reparations Movement
- Robeson, Paul
- Robinson, Jackie
- Rustin, Bayard
- Seale, Bobby
- Sharpton, Al
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tubman, Harriet
- Turner, Nat
- Underground Railroad
- Walker, Alice
- West, Cornel
- White Privilege
- Wilkins, Roy
- Woodson, Carter
- Agrarian Socialist Movement
- Alinsky, Saul
- Alternative Bookstores
- American Gold Star Mothers
- American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous
- American Indian Movement
- Crazy Horse
- Deloria, Vine, Jr.
- Geronimo
- Hawai'ian Sovereignty Movement
- Indian Mascot Protests
- Indigenous People and Environmentalism
- Indigenous People and Social Justice
- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
- Oglala, Incident at
- Peltier, Leonard
- Pueblo Revolt
- Reparations Movement
- Sitting Bull
- Wounded Knee
- American Revolution
- Anti–Death Penalty Movement
- Anti-Busing Movement
- Antigonish Movement
- Anti-Immigrant Politics
- Anti-Nuclear Movement
- Anti-Prison Movement
- Arab American Activism
- Asian American
- Attica Uprising
- Ballot Initiatives
- Benjamin, Medea
- Bill of Rights
- Billionaires for Bush
- Black Lung Movement
- Braden, Anne and Carl
- Brown, John
- Campus Antiwar Network
- Carter, James Earl
- Chautauqua
- Chicago Democratic Convention Demonstrations, 1968
- Chicago Seven
- Children's Defense Fund
- CIA Repression of Social Movements
- Clamshell Alliance
- Clark, Ramsey
- Code Pink
- Communist Party USA
- Communitarianism
- Community Action Program
- Community Organizing
- Cotton, Samuel
- Counter-Recruitment
- Coxey, Jacob S.
- Darrow, Clarence
- Dees, Morris
- Dellinger, David
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
- Draft Resistance
- Drug Laws, Resistance to
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Eugenics Movement
- Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
- Feminism/Gender
- Roe v. Wade
- Abortion
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Anti-Pornography Activism
- Butler, Judith
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- Dworkin, Andrea
- Ecofeminism
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Feminism
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Feminist Research
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Friedan, Betty
- Gage, Matilda Joslyn
- Gender Equity Movement in Schools
- Genital Integrity Activists
- Goldman, Emma
- Islamic Feminism
- Men's Movement
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Ovington, Mary White
- Roy, Arundhati
- Sadker, Myra and David
- Sanger, Margaret
- Schlafly, Phyllis
- Seaman, Barbara
- Sex Workers' Rights
- Socialist Feminism
- Steinem, Gloria
- Take Back the Night
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Women's Collective Acts of Resistance
- Women's Health Activism
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women's Suffrage Movement
- Woolf, Virginia
- Fonda, Jane
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Gangs and Activism
- George, Henry
- GI Bill
- GI Movement
- Government Suppression of Social Activism
- Grange Movement
- Gray Panthers
- Great Society
- Greenback Movement
- Gun Politics
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hayden, Tom
- Highlander Center
- Hoffman, Abbie
- Hollywood Blacklists
- Homestead Riot
- Horton, Myles
- Hull-House
- Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Jones, Mother (Mary)
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- LaFollette, Robert
- Latino/a
- Albizu Campos, Pedro
- Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Baez, Joan
- Bilingual Education
- Chávez, César
- Chicano Movement
- Farmworkers' Movement
- Grape Boycotts
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
- Lebrón, Lolita
- Martínez, Betita
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
- Sánchez, George I.
- Tijerina, Reies López
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
- ACT UP
- AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Butler, Judith
- Gay Liberation Front
- Gay-Straight Alliance Network
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Movement
- Milk, Harvey
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
- Queer Theory
- Shepard, Matthew
- Stonewall Rebellion
- Transgender Movement
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lippmann, Walter
- Living Wage Movement
- Long, Huey P.
- McGovern, George
- Mencken, H. L.
- Military-Industrial Complex
- Militia Movements
- Minutemen Project
- Moore, Michael
- Multiculturalism
- National Rifle Association (NRA)
- New Deal
- Non-Partisan League
- Operation Rescue
- Operation Solidarity
- Paine, Thomas
- Peace Corps
- Philanthropy for Social Action
- Police Brutality
- Poor People's Campaign
- Prison-Industrial Complex
- Professional Activist Organizations
- Public Citizen
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Sanctuary Movement
- Savio, Mario
- School of the Americas
- School of the Americas Watch
- Shays' Rebellion
- Sheehan, Cindy
- Smith, Samantha
- Southern Student Organizing Committee
- Spock, Benjamin
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Third-Party Politics
- Thomas, Norman
- Thoreau, Henry David
- United for a Fair Economy
- United for Peace and Justice
- Urban Uprisings, United States
- Veterans for Peace
- Voices in the Wilderness
- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
- Weather Underground
- Welfare Rights Movement
- Wellstone, Paul
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Young Americans for Freedom
- Young Patriots Organization
- Zinn, Howard
- Political Philosophy/Ethics
- Arendt, Hannah
- Atheism
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Butler, Judith
- Camus, Albert
- Chomsky, Noam
- Citizenship and Patriotism
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Society
- Commodification
- Communitarianism
- Confucius
- Critical Race Theory
- Darwin, Charles
- de Certeau, Michel
- Democracy
- Democratic Socialism
- Engels, Friedrich
- False Consciousness
- Fascism
- Foucault, Michel
- Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
- Gitlin, Todd
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Ideology
- Income Inequality
- Jesus Christ
- Just War Theory
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Laclau, Ernesto
- Leadership, Participatory Democratic
- Liberalism
- Libertarians
- Locke, Alain
- Locke, John
- Lukács, Georg
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Marcuse, Herbert
- Marx, Karl
- Marxist Theory
- Mill, John Stuart
- Mills, C. Wright
- Mouffe, Chantal
- Multitude
- Neoconservatism
- Neoliberalism
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nonviolence and Activism
- Old Left
- Participatory Economics
- Plato
- Populism
- Power, Theories of
- Praxis
- Private Property
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John
- Reich, Wilhelm
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Said, Edward
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Smith, Adam
- Social Democracy
- Social Movements, Sociology of
- Socialism
- Socrates
- Thompson, E. P.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Touraine, Alain
- Utopian Communities
- Violence, Theories of
- Religious/Spiritual Movements
- Bahá'í Faith and Social Action
- Berrigan Brothers
- Boff, Leonardo
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- Boyle, Father
- Catholic Worker Movement
- Christian Base Communities
- Christian Right
- Coffin, William Sloane
- Cone, James H.
- Conscientious Objectors to War
- Dalai Lama
- Day, Dorothy
- Ecopaganism
- Gutiérrez, Gustavo
- Intelligent Design Movement
- Islamic Feminism
- Jesus Christ
- Just War Theory
- Liberation Theology
- Luther, Martin
- Martín-Baró, Ignacio
- Merton, Thomas
- Millennial and Apocalyptic Movements
- Muhammad
- Muhammad, Elijah
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Option for the Poor
- Pacifism
- Prejean, Sister Helen
- Protestantism
- Public Theology
- Quakers
- Rastafarians
- Religious Activism
- Reverend Billy
- Romero, Oscar
- Sanctuary Movement
- Sobrino, Jon
- Social Gospel Movement
- Sojourners Movement
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Spirituality and Peacemaking
- Torres Restrepo, Camilo
- Tutu, Desmond
- Wallis, Jim
- West, Cornel
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Zionism
- Social, Health, and Welfare Rights
- Action Medic Groups
- Addams, Jane
- Advocacy
- Alternative Health
- Arts-in-Medicine Movement
- Black Lung Movement
- Breastfeeding Movement
- Child Advocacy
- Children's Defense Fund
- Cloward, Richard A., and Piven, Frances Fox
- Community Action Programs
- Doctors without Boarders
- Edelman, Marion Wright
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
- Homeless Activism
- Homeopathy Movement
- Hospice Movement
- Housing Movements
- Hull-House
- Koop, C. Everett
- Low-Income Housing
- Natural Childbirth Movement
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Poor People's Campaign
- Professional Activist Organizations
- Save the Children
- Slow Food Movement
- Spock, Benjamin
- Wald, Lillian
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