List of social movements

List of social movements

This is a partial list of social movements.

* Abahlali baseMjondolo - South African shack dwellers' movement
* Abolitionism
* American Indian Movement (AIM)
* Animal rights movement
* Anti-consumerism
* Anti-war movement
* Anti-globalization movement
* Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca - Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico
* Black Consciousness Movement
* Brights movement
* Bunge la Mwananchi- People's parliament, Kenya
* Charismatic movement
* Civil rights movement
* Conservation movement
* Counter-culture movement
* CRAEDO - Coalition for the Re-formation of the Euro-American Democratic Order
* Co-operative movement/Cooperative movement
* Cultural movement
* Disability rights movement
* Ecology movement (Environmental movement)
* Ecofeminism
* Environmental Justice movement
* Environmental Movement
* Ethiopian movement
* Fair Trade movement
* Free software movement
* Free love
* Global justice movement
* Human rights movement
* Indigenous peoples movement
* Labor movement
* Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brasil
* LGBT social movements (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements)
* Narmada bacho andolan
* National Downshifting Week awareness campaign
* Neurodiversity movement advocating for the right of people who are considred neurally divergent
* Prohibition or Temperance Movement
* Reform movements in the United States
* Right to Life
* Straight edge movement
* Situationist International
* Student movement
* Squatting movement
* Taishō democracy in Japan
* Treatment Action Campaign - movement struggling for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa
* The Truth movement ( [http://www.freewebs.com/searchforthetruth/index.htm/ Website] )
* Wedding of the Weddings movement in Poland
* Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign South African movement struggling against evictions
* Women's liberation movement
* Women's suffrage movement
* Zapatista movement

ee also

* Religious Fundamentalism movements


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