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The activism industry is composed of organizations and individuals who make a living from activism, involvement in action to bring about change. The number of organizations who employ people to perform this work is sufficiently large that Activism is now a job classification. While "activism" is commonly used to describe left-wing movements for social change, many other movements can be described as activist in nature.Many organizations whose primary activity is activism are defined as being nonprofit organizations. Some are non-governmental organizations. Most activist organisations do no manufacturing of goods.
The specific activist tactic of persuading politicians to create laws is called lobbying. Many groups have staff assigned to do lobbying. A U.S. organization which is officially created only to do lobbying is called a political action committee.
Fields in the activism industry include:
- Anarchism
- Animal rights organizations
- Anti-globalization movement
- Capitalism
- Civil rights movement
- Demonstrations
- Ecology activism
- Alternative Transportation Movement
- Ecology movement
- Environmental movementEnvironmental movement is a term often used for any social or political movement directed towards the preservation, restoration, or enhancement of the natural environment. Here are some of the most prominent and well-defined examples: The North American C
- Environmental organizations
- Green movementThe Green movement encompasses the Green parties and the larger ecology movement, peace movement, conservation movement, environmental movement and general trend towards environmentalism of which they are a part the most extreme members of which are somet
- Organizations based upon Green economicsGreen economics loosely defines a theory of economics by which an economy is considered to be component of the ecosystem in which it resides. A holistic approach to the subject is typical, such that economic ideas are commingled with any number of other s
- Gun politicsThe phrase Gun politics refers to the views of different people within a particular country as to what degree of control (increased gun rights vs. greater gun control should be enforced upon the private ownership and usage of firearms, and to what extent organizations
- Human rightsHuman rights natural rights are rights which some hold to be "inalienable" and belonging to all humans, according to natural law. Such rights are believed, by proponents, to be necessary for freedom and the maintenance of a " reasonable" quality of life. organizations
- Labor movementThe labor movement (or labour movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. Labor unions and trade unions organizations
- LibertarianismThis article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. For a discussion of the meaning of the term libertarian that is traditional in Europe, see libertarian socialism. For the use of the term "libertarianism" in the p
- Senior Citizens
- Peace movement
- Religious activism
- Some religions encourage their adherents to take part in other forms of activism
- morality movements
- charity programs
- Nationalist activism
- Racist and anti-racist movements
