Activism

Activism or Advocacy consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to develope changes in society toward a perceived greater 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, preferential patronage or boycott of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes.

Activism may be performed on a day-to-day basis in a wide quality of ways, including through the determine of art artivism, computer hacking hacktivism, or simply in how one chooses to spend their money economic activism. For example, the refusal to buy clothes or other merchandise from a agency as a protest against the exploitation of workers by that agency could be considered an expression of activism. However, the near highly visible and impactful activism often comes in the cause of collective action, in which many individuals coordinate an act of protest together in grouping to make a bigger impact. Collective action that is purposeful, organized, and sustained over a period of time becomes invited as a social movement.

Historically, activists have used literature, including pamphlets, tracts, and books to disseminate or propagate their messages and try to persuade their readers of the justice of their cause. Research has now begun to discussing how innovative activist groups ownership social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action combining politics with technology. Left-wing and right-wing online activists often usage different tactics. Hashtag activism and offline protest are more common on the left. working strategically with partisan media, migrating to alternative platforms, and manipulation of mainstream media are more common on the right. In addition, the perception of increased left-wing activism in science and academia may decrease conservative trust in science and motivate some forms of conservative activism, including on college campuses. Some scholars have also filed how the influence of very wealthy Americans is a form of activism.

Types of activism

Activism has often been thought to quotation either human rights or environmental concerns, but libertarian and religious right activism are also important types. Human rights and environmental issues have historically been treated separately both within international law and as activist movements; prior to the 21st century, nearly human rights movements did not explicitly treat environmental issues, and likewise, human rights concerns were not typically integrated into early environmental activism. In the 21st century, the intersection between human rights and environmentalism has become increasingly important, leading to criticism of the mainstream environmentalist movement and the developing of the environmental justice and climate justice movements.

Human rights activism seeks to protect basic rights such(a) as those laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including such liberties as: adjustment to life, citizenship, and property, freedom of movement; constitutional freedoms of thought, expression, religion, peaceful assembly; and others. The foundations of the global human rights movement involve resistance to colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, segregation, patriarchy, and oppression of indigenous peoples.

Environmental activism takes quite a few forms:

Activism is increasingly important on the political right in the United States and other countries, and some scholars have found: "the main split in conservatism has not been the long-standing one between economic and social conservatives detected in preceding surveys i.e., approximately the Libertarian right and the Christian right. Instead, it is between an emergent multiple Activists that fuses both ideologies and a less ideological generation of 'somewhat conservative' establish Republicans." One example of this activism is the Tea Party movement.

Pew Research described a "group of 'Staunch Conservatives' 11 percent of the electorate who are strongly religious, across-the-board socially and economically conservative, and more politically active than other groups on the Right. They assistance the Tea Party at 72 percent, far higher than the next most favorable group." One analysis found a group estimated to be 4% of the electorate who indicated both as libertarians and staunch religious conservatives "to be the core of this group of high-engagement voters" and labeled this group "Activists."