advocacy movements
Organized pushing change
Advocacy movements are organized efforts by groups of people working to promote a cause, change policy, or influence public opinion.
The term encompasses everything from civil rights campaigns to environmental activism to lobbying for healthcare reform.
Unlike spontaneous protests, advocacy movements imply sustained, coordinated action: The advocacy movement for marriage equality transformed American law in under two decades.
- grassroots organizingLocal citizen-led collective action
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- marchRhythmic group walk
- protest marchGroup walk expressing opposition
mental health awareness · LGBTQ+ rights · climate action · racial equality · activism · disability rights · solidarity · electoral reform · policy change · indigenous sovereignty · media representation · labor rights · refugee support · universal healthcare · prison reform · collective bargaining · rally · voter registration drives
advocacy movementsapathy
Absence of feeling
complacency · acquiescence · indifference · resignation · inaction
advocacy movementsstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
conservatism · traditionalism · orthodoxy · preservation efforts · establishment
advocacy movementsstate apparatus
Institutions enforcing governmental authority
establishment · authoritarian control · bureaucratic inertia · power structures · the powers that be