Transcript Activism

ACTIVISM
Definition
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Intentional efforts to promote, impede or direct
social, political, economic, or environmental change
Types of Activism
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Civil Disobedience
Craftivism
Boycotting
Vegetarianism
Nonviolence
Peace Movement
Political Campaigning
Protest
Striking
Mahatma Gandhi
Advocated for
Nonviolence
throughout the
world
TIME’s Man of
the Year –
1930
So awesome
that his
birthday is a
holiday in
India
Allen Ginsberg
Political,
religious, and
gay rights
activist
Howl and Other
Poems led to
Ginsberg
being put up
on obscenity
charges
So awesome
that he had a
stamp with his
face on it
Mutulu Shakur
Civil Rights
activist (Black
Panther Party)
Best known for
planning the
$1.6 M robbery
of an armored
truck in New
York in which
three were killed
2Pac’s stepdad
Not so
awesome…
projected
release date:
Feb. 10, 2016
Leon Trotsky
Political
activist /
Marxist
revolutionary
Escaped
prison multiple
times during
his life
Assassinated
with an ice
pick…that’s
kind of
awesome
Jessica Biel
Activist for
Clean Water
and Animal
Rights
Actress born
in Minnesota
She was in
Blade: Trinity
- that is
awesome
because the
vampires die
instead of
sparkle