Nonviolent resistance movements

Polish trade union federation evolved into broad anti-authoritarian social movement

thumb|Mahatma Gandhi leading the famous 1930 [[Salt March, a notable example of satyagraha.]]

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

Otpor (, , stylized as Otpor!) was a political organization in Serbia (then part of FR Yugoslavia) from 1998 until 2004.

resistance of British rule in India through nonviolent means

protests against the 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

climate activism group

Egyptian activist group

Palestinian-led movement focused on assisting the Palestinian cause in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

movement challenging the Israeli–Egyptian blockade on the Gaza Strip by sailing humanitarian aid ships to Gaza

2014 protest movement in Taiwan

political action that relies on the use of non-violent methods by civil groups

Kefaya ( kefāya, , "enough") is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change ( el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer), a grassroots coalition which prior to the 2011 revolution drew its support from across Egypt's political spectrum. It was a platform for protest against Hosni Mubarak's presidency and the possibility he might seek to transfer power directly to his son Gamal; political corruption and stagnation; "the blurring of the lines between power and wealth; and the regime's cruelty, coercion and disregard for human rights."

largest student-led civil rights organization during the American Civil Rights Movement

Pashtun non-violent movement against the British Empire

Tamarod (, "rebellion") was an Egyptian movement funded by the General Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat) and UAE to overthrow the first democratically elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The nominal aim was to register opposition to and force him to call early presidential elections. The goal was to collect 15 million signatures by 30 June 2013, the one-year anniversary of Morsi's inauguration. On 29 June 2013 the movement claimed to have collected more than 22 million signatures (22,134,460). A counter campaign was launched in support of Morsi's presidency which claimed to have collecte

Workers' Defence Committee - Polish organization

thumb|The Kmara logo Kmara (, ) was a civic youth resistance movement in Georgia, active in the protests prior to and during the November 2003 Rose Revolution, which toppled down the government of Eduard Shevardnadze. Consciously modeled on the Serbian nongovernmental organization (NGO) Otpor!, which had been instrumental in defeating Slobodan Milošević's regime in 2000, the Kmara members were trained and advised by the influential Georgian NGO Liberty Institute and funded by the United States–based Open Society Institute (OSI). The movement was a hybrid of social movement and virtual NGO, whi

series after the 2009 Iranian presidential election

Belarusian political youth organization

Jan Lokpal Bill Movement 2011

organization of farmers and rural labourers affiliated with the Communist Party of India

Egyptian pressure group

letter from Leo Tolstoy about the Indian independence movement in 1908

movement with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment

1968 protest in the United States

Pora! (), meaning ''"It's time!"'' in Ukrainian, is a civic youth organization (Black Pora!) and political party in Ukraine (Yellow Pora!) espousing nonviolent resistance and advocating increased national democracy. The group was established in 2004 (as only a civic youth organization) to coordinate young people's opposition to the Kuchma government in opposition to what they claimed was the authoritarian governing style of Ukraine's president Leonid Kuchma. After the Orange Revolution Pora! split up in two different entities, Black Pora! (since 2006 OPORA) and Yellow Pora!

thumb|300px|Automaidan Movement, 2013 Automaidan () is a pro-European Ukrainian socio-political movement involving the use of cars and trucks as means of protest that first began in late 2013 in Kyiv within the advent of Euromaidan.

social movement

women organization

Shayfeencom (Egyptian Arabic: We see you) is an initiative that started with three Egyptian women (a prominent TV newscaster, a university professor, and a marketing consultant) to help bring political reform and democracy to Egypt.

FeesMustFall was a student-led protest movement that began in mid-October 2015 in South Africa. The goals of the movement were to stop increases in student fees as well as to increase government funding of universities. Protests started at the University of Witwatersrand and spread to the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University before rapidly spreading to other universities across the country. Although initially enjoying significant public support the protest movement started to lose public sympathy when the protests started turning violent.

movement within Sikhism religion

anti-apartheid, anti-colonial protest movement regarding statues at the University of Cape Town in South Africa

movement for political change in Cuba

KelKel is a youth movement in Kyrgyzstan that gained some prominence during the Tulip Revolution of March 2005 that culminated in the ousting of President Askar Akayev. In Kyrgyz, KelKel means renaissance.

East Pakistani political campaign (1971)

Russian Youth Movement "Oborona" (; Rossiyskoye molodozhnoye dvizheniye «Oborona») (Russian for "Defense") is a non-partisan civic youth movement in Russia. The movement was established in 2005 and has no leader or centralized structure. Instead, it is based on the network principle and mostly horizontal relations.

protest

anticommunist movement in Poland (1977)

Polish labor union

350 km foot march between Gwalior and Delhi, organised by Ekta Parishad, for claiming rights for landless farmers.

protest

Mexican Christian pacifist civil society group

organization attempting to break Gaza blockade