- American Indian Movement
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Native American activist organization in the United States which has led protests advocating indigenous American rights, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities, and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the country.
- Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
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Was a political protest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s, forming a central part of the German student movement.
- Back-to-the-land movement
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Refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s involving an attempted migration from cities to rural areas.
- Black Panther Party
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African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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An organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Chipko movement
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Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- Chipko Movement
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Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- COINTELPRO
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A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
- Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
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A British anti-war group set up in 1960.
- Communist League (Canada)
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Founded as the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action, the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.
- Consciousness raising
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Form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
- Correspondence Publishing Committee
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A radical left organization in the US led by C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman from approximately 1951 until 1962.
- Counterculture of the 1960s
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A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
- Disability rights movement
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A movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
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An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
- Ecofeminism
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A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
- Eurocommunism
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Eurocommunism was a current among the Communist Parties, mainly in Europe, from 1968 up to the early 1980s, which sought autonomy of their own national parties relative to the leadership claims of the Soviet and Chinese parties or each other, being particularly critical of the lack of internal democracy in the Communist movement.
- Facing Reality
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Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Facing Reality
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A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
- Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
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A student protest which took place during the 1964#1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
- Freedom rides
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Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- Freedom Summer
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A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
- Gay Liberation
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The name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
- Gay Liberation Front
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The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
- Hippies
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A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
- History of the Hippie Movement
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- International Communist Tendency
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An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
- International of Anarchist Federations
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Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
- Joe Hill House
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A Catholic Worker Movement house of hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Kerista
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A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
- Liberation News Service
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A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
- Lotta Continua
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Italian left-wing organization.
- Mattachine Society
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One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
- Merry Pranksters
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Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
- Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
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A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
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A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
- New Democratic Party
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A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
- New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
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Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
- New Hogtown Press
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Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- New Left
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The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
- New Left
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Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
- The New Left in Canada
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Published: 1970
- News and Letters Committees - Wikipedia article
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- Peace Movement (Canada)
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Canada has a long tradition of an active and vocal peace movement. During the late 1950s and 1960s, concern over the dangers of atmospheric testing and the debate over the presence in Canada of nuclear weapons provided a focus for Canada's fledgling peace movement.
- Pressure Group
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An organization formed by like-minded people who seek to influence public policy to promote an interest.
- Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
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A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
- Radical America - Wikipedia article
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- Radical Faeries
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A loosely affiliated worldwide network of queer people seeking to "reject hetero-imitation" and redefine gay identity.
- Rochdale College
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An experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. 1968-1975.
- Second-wave Feminism (USA)
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Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
- Sexual revolution in 1960s America
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Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes towards sexual attitudes at the time.
- Situationist International
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A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
- Socialist International
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A worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
- Solidarity (UK)
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Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
- Spartacus League (Spartakusbund)
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German revolutionary movement.
- Spies for Peace
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A group of anti-war activists associated with CND and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
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A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- Underground Press Syndicate
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A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
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A national veterans' organization.
- Waffle
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A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
- Weather Underground Organization
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An American radical left organization.
- Youth International Party (Yippies)
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A youth-oriented radical and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
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