List of social movements

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Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues.

This list excludes the following:

* 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

## List

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* 20x20 movement
* 9/11 Truth movement
* Abolitionist movement
* ACT UP
* Alternative movement
* Animal Rebellion
* Animal rights movement
* Anti-Apartheid Movement
* Anti-capitalism
* Anti-consumerism
* Anti-corporate activism
* Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement
* Anti-fascism
* Anti-globalization movement
* Anti-jock movement
* Anti-liberalism
* Anti-nuclear movement
* Anti-psychiatry movement
* Anti-war movement
* Anti-work movement
* Anti-vaccination movement
* Alt-right
* Asian American movement
* Austro-Slavism
* Autism rights movement movement advocating for the right of people who are considered neurally divergent (anti-psychiatry)
* Berlin movement
* Black Consciousness Movement
* Black Lives Matter
* Black Power movement
* Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
* Brights movement
* Chautauqua
* Chicano Movement
* Children's rights movement
* Civil rights movement
* Climate movement
* Conservation movement
* Counterculture movement
* Czech National Revival
* Cooperative movement
* Cultural movement
* Decolonization
* Decretalist
* Decretist
* Disability rights movement
* Earth First!
* Ecofeminism
* Ecomasculinity
* Economy for the Common Good
* Effective altruism
* Efficiency movement
* Enthronement movement
* Environmental justice movement
* Environmental movement
* Esperanto movement
* Ethiopian movement
* Extinction Rebellion
* Fair trade movement
* Farm-to-table movement
* Farm Worker Movement
* Feminist movement
* Free culture movement
* Freedom and People's Rights Movement
* Free love
* Free school movement
* Free software movement
* Galician Russophilia
* Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)
* Global citizens movement
* Global justice movement
* Going to the People
* Goliards
* Gothicism
* Greece Aganaktismenoi movements
* Guelphs and Ghibellines
* Health at Every Size
* Health freedom movement
* Hippie movement
* Hizmet movement
* Hot Girl Walk
* Human rights movement
* Identitarian movement
* Illyrian movement
* Immigrant rights movement
* India Against Corruption
* Indigenous peoples movement
* Indigenous movements in the Americas
* 2017 pro-jallikattu protests
* Labor movement
* Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa)
* Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brazil
* Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan
* Lebensreform
* LGBT rights opposition
* LGBT social movements
* Lily-white movement
* Mad Pride (psychiatric social movement)
* March For Our Lives movement
* Masculinism movement
* Men's rights movement
* Men's liberation movement
* Me Too movement
* Mothers Against Drunk Driving
* Multiculturalism
* Namantar Andolan (Change Movement among Dalits in India)
* Narmada Bachao Andolan
* National Cleanup Day
* Neo-Slavism
* Neostoicism
* New Enlightenment
* New Life Movement
* New Right (South Korea)
* Non-cooperation movement
* Nonviolence movement
* Occupy movement
* Occupy Wall Street
* Organic movement
* Plogging
* Pochvennichestvo
* Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
* Pro-choice movement
* Pro-life movement
* Psychiatric survivors movement
* Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States
* QAnon
* Rape crisis movement
* Rastafari movement
* Red guards[1]
* Reform movements in the United States
* Reproductive justice
* Right to health
* Right to life
* Rural People's Movement
* Russian nihilist movement
* Scouting Movement
* Salt March (Salt Satyagraha movement)
* Sanation
* Selfie With Daughter
* Skeptical movement
* Sex-positive movement
* Sex Workers' Rights Movement
* Slow Food movement
* Slow movement
* Situationist International
* Slavophilia
* Smenovekhovtsy
* Social democracy
* South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement
* Soviet Jewry Movement
* Student movement
* Sunrise Movement
* Taishō Democracy Movement
* Tangwai movement
* Tea Party movement
* Temperance movement
* The Bees Army
* The Zeitgeist Movement
* Time to Change
* Time's Up (movement)
* Treatment Action Campaign - movement struggling for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa
* Umbrella Movement
* Veganism
* Via Campesina \- international peasants movement representing 150 million people, advocating food sovereignty.
* Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
* White Wednesdays
* Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign South African movement struggling against evictions
* Westernizer
* White Power Movement
* Wikimedia movement
* Women Against War
* Woman's Exchange Movement
* Women's liberation movement
* Women's suffrage
* Workplace spirituality
* Yug Nirman Yojana

## References

1. ↑ Yang, Guobin (2000). "The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity". Sociological Forum ([Wiley, Springer]) 15 (3): 379–406. ISSN 08848971. http://www.jstor.org/stable/684803. Retrieved 2026-02-07.

## External links

* 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)

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