Community organizing

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

thumb|Civil rights activists at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom during the [[civil rights movement in August 1963.]] thumb|A Feminist movement|women's liberation march in Washington, D.C., August 1970. Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate building in a community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, pr

collective action (e.g. march) by people who are supporting or protesting against a cause of concern

active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power

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form of assembling humans

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based on the belief that a person's social identity and personality are largely moulded by community relationships, with a smaller degree of development being placed on individualism.

practice of achieving goals through nonviolent methods

A grassroots movement uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or social movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from volunteers at the local level to implement change at the local, regional, national, or international levels. Grassroots movements are associated with bottom-up, rather than top-down decision-making, and are sometimes considered more natural or spontaneous than more traditional power structures.

plot of land sub-divided into smaller parcels for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing of food plants

group decision-making aiming for universal agreement

American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world

refusal to pay a tax in opposition to a government or policy, rather than taxation itself

thumb|Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause. Picketers normally endeavor to be non-violent. It can have a number of aims but is generally to put pressure on the party targeted to meet particular demands or cease operations. This pressure is achieved by har

non-governmental organization

thumb|McDonald's staff in Quezon City, Philippines "McJob" is a slang term for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of advancement. The term "McJob" comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status jobregardless of employerwhere little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers.

individual or group activity addressing issues of public concern

process where a community works together based on a common problem

Indian activist

Annual event

Samoan political movement

civil society non-profit that operates within a local community

Type of employment relationship involving non-permanent freelance work with payment based on piece work

Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.

digital-communication coordinated group

social justice issue

non-standard employment poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household

a group of youth who are given the opportunity to decide policies of a larger government

annual event

American civil rights activist and kidnap victim (1919-2017)

field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area or with a common need or interest

LGBTQ activist organization

industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation

The social organization and the movement of the women of Meitei ethnicity of Manipur

American artist and preservationist

organization that formed in 1946