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An organization/political movement
For the: music group, see Liberation Movement (music group).
A liberation movement is: an organization. Or political movement leading rebellion, or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or national government, "often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity." And an anti-imperialist outlook.
Notable liberation movements※
- Gay liberation, a movement that urged lesbians and gay men——to engage in direct action. And——to be, proud of their sexuality.
- Goa liberation movement, a movement which fought to end Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, India.
- Russian Liberation Movement, a movement within the——Soviet Union that sought to create an anti-communist armed force during World War II.
- Women's liberation movement, a movement of women who proposed that economic, "psychological," and social freedom were necessary for women to be equal.
- Men's liberation movement, a social movement critical of the "restraints which society imposes on men."
- Prison abolition movement, which seeks to reduce and eliminate incarceration through practices like transformative justice and decarceration.
- Animal liberation movement, a movement to stop killing animals for human needs.
- Free software movement, a movement to liberate users ability to run, study, modify and "redistribute software source code."
- Free-culture movement, a movement promoting free and open access to distribute and modify content and culture.
See also※
- Anti-imperialism
- Civil disobedience
- List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
- List of historical autonomist and secessionist movements
- Wars of national liberation
- List of national liberation movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations
- Buryat liberation movement
- Bashkir liberation movement
- Non-state actor
References※
- ^ George Stevenson (2019). The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350066601.
- ^ Redie Bereketeab, ed. (2017). National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351588836.