List of social movements

Further information: Online social movement

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• 20x20 movement
• 9/11 Truth movement
• Abolitionist movement
• ACT UP
• Alternative movement
• Animal Rebellion
• 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
• Chicano Movement
• Children's rights movement
• Civil rights movement
• Climate movement
• Conservation movement
• Counterculture movement
• Cooperative movement
• Cultural movement
• Decolonization
• Decretalist
• Decretist
• Disability rights movement
• Earth First!
• Ecofeminism
• Ecomasculinity
• Economy for the Common Good
• Effective altruism
• Efficiency 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
• Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)
• Global citizens movement
• Global justice movement
• Going to the People
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Skeptical movement
• Sex-positive movement
• Sex Workers' Rights Movement
• Slow Food movement
• Slow movement
• Situationist International
• Slavophilia
• 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

External links

• ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
• Mobilization journal
• Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change journal
• 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)