Movements (Page 2)


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    Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MeCha)

    MeCha (also styled Mecha), an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, is a student-led Hispanic advocacy movement which claims to have roughly 300 chapters at U.S.-based colleges and universities. MeCha was founded in 1969 during a student conference held in Santa Barbara, California. Other groups use the term “MeCha”
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    Occupy Los Angeles

    Occupy Los Angeles was a protest movement that emerged as a local manifestation of Occupy Wall Street, a left-of-center anti-capitalist movement that began in 2011. It formed as a camp around Los Angeles City Hall on October 1, 2011 to advocate general left-wing and anti-capitalist sentiments. Police eventually dispersed
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    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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    People’s Climate Marches

    Taking place in 2014 the first People’s Climate March was attended by roughly 300,000 demonstrators including left-of-center New York mayor Bill de Blasio, after which the People’s Climate Movement was organized. The People’s Climate Marches organized crowds throughout the United States in order to pressure politicians into giving
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    People’s Hunger Strike for Gaza

    The People’s Hunger Strike for Gaza (also known as the People’s Hunger Strike in Solidarity With Gaza) is a Palestinian-nationalist protest movement based in Boston, Massachusetts. It began on September 4, 2025 and was organized by a coalition of healthcare workers, healthcare organizations, and left-of-center community-based organizations.
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    Public Funds Public Schools

    Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) is a teachers’ union-aligned campaign started by the controversial left-wing extremism watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), its affiliated SPLC Action Fund, the teachers’ union-funded litigation group Education Law Center, and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson.
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    Refuse to Return

    Refuse to Return is an informal group of teachers opposed to restarting in-person classes at school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization began as a Facebook group which has amassed almost 8,700 followers102
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    Revolutionary Communist International (RCI)

    The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) is a radical Communist-affiliated organization that advocates for the creation of a “world socialist revolution.” 108 RCI claims to have members in more than 70 countries around
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    Shut Down DC

    Shut Down DC is a coalition of environmentalist activist groups which announced plans to significantly disrupt traffic in Washington, D.C. on September 23, 2019 to bring awareness to climate change. The group has stated that it aims for its demonstrations to affect the most powerful people in the city by
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    Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)

    The Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries was an activist organization founded by Marsha P. Johnson, a gay rights activist and drag queen. STAR advocated for gay rights and participated in volunteer efforts to support homeless LGBT youth and prostitutes in New York City in the 1970’s.
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    Strike With Us

    Strike With Us is a movement made up of over 100 environmentalist groups that plans to start a week of strikes beginning on Friday 20, 2019. The movement aims to carry out more strikes leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
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    The Twitter Files

    In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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    Trump-Russia Collusion Claims

    See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource  from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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    Vote Early Day

    Vote Early Day is a movement by a coalition of nonprofits and businesses which encourages voters to use early ballots and wants October 24 to become the official “Vote Early Day” holiday. Though Vote Early Day was initially spearheaded by the media company, MTV,
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    We Fight Back 2025

    We Fight Back 2025 was a series of demonstrations in Washington, D.C and other cities across the United States on January 20, 2025, or Inauguration Day, to protest the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States.
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    Youth Climate Strike

    Youth Climate Strike is an ostensibly youth-led environmentalist organization that organizes students skipping school in order to protest for environmentalist austerity policies to combat climate change. In addition to organizing protests involving students skipping school, the group has also applied pressure to Democrat presidential primary candidates on climate issues. History