Student activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political,environmental,economic,or social change. In addition to education,student groups often play central roles in democratization and winning civil rights.
Ethnic studies,in the United States,is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race,ethnicity,and nation,but also sexuality,gender,and other such markings—and power,as expressed by the state,by civil society,and by individuals.
The anti-Japanese demonstrations of 2005 were a series of demonstrations,some peaceful,some violent,which were held across most of East Asia in the spring of 2005. They were sparked off by a number of issues,including the approval of a Japanese history textbook and the proposal that Japan be granted a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1965 against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War. These demonstrations grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years. This movement informed and helped shape the vigorous and polarizing debate,primarily in the United States,during the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s on how to end the Vietnam War.
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups,environmental movements,and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local,national,or international level. Major anti-nuclear groups include Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Friends of the Earth,Greenpeace,International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,Peace Action,Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. The initial objective of the movement was nuclear disarmament,though since the late 1960s opposition has included the use of nuclear power. Many anti-nuclear groups oppose both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The formation of green parties in the 1970s and 1980s was often a direct result of anti-nuclear politics.
Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan. The controversies primarily concern the nationalist right efforts to whitewash the actions of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts,which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics,anti-war sentiment,civil rights urgency,youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations,and popular rebellions against state militaries and bureaucracies.
Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to:sit-ins,occupations of university offices or buildings,strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's,and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek junta of 1967–1974.
Freedom Schools were temporary,alternative,and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social,political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom Schools was in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.
Anti-Korean sentiment or Koryophobia describes negative feelings towards Korean people,Korean culture,or the countries,North Korea and/or South Korea.
Baodiao movement is a social movement originating among Republic of China students in the United States in the 1970s,and more recently expressed in China that asserts Chinese sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu/Tiaoyutai Islands. The territorial right to the islands is disputed among the China,the Taiwan,and Japan. Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands and China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands are the main representative organizations in the movement.
The Sunflower Student Movement is associated with a protest movement driven by a coalition of students and civic groups that came to a head between March 18 and April 10,2014,in the Legislative Yuan and later,the Executive Yuan of Taiwan. The activists protested the passage of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) by the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) at the legislature without a clause-by-clause review.
Lessons in Dissent is a 2014 documentary film about young political activists in Hong Kong.
Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015,originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention and led to a wider movement to "decolonise" education across South Africa. On 9 April 2015,following a UCT Council vote the previous night,the statue was removed.
Post–World War II anti-fascism,including antifa groups,anti-fascist movements and anti-fascist action networks,saw the development of political movements describing themselves as anti-fascist and in opposition to fascism. Those movements have been active in several countries in the aftermath of World War II during the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
Tsai Ping-kun is a Taiwanese politician.
"No justice,no peace" is a political slogan which originated during protests against acts of ethnic violence against African Americans. Its precise meaning is contested. The slogan was used as early as 1986,following the killing of Michael Griffith by a mob of youths.
In 1968 and 1969,student protests at several Japanese universities ultimately forced the closure of campuses across Japan. Known as daigaku funsō or daigaku tōsō,the protests were part of the worldwide protest cycle in 1968 and the late-1960s Japanese protest cycle,including the Anpo protests of 1970 and the struggle against the construction of Narita Airport. Students demonstrated initially against practical issues in universities and eventually formed the Zenkyōtōin mid-1968 to organize themselves. The Act on Temporary Measures concerning University Management allowed for the dispersal of protesters in 1969.
