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Originally Posted by dippin
You talk about this as if a "movement" needed to be certified by someone. Let's see, how do we describe a group of people who coordinate events, websites and material requesting for a specific action from a public official?
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Is there a "bigfoot" movement?
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/newrepl...eply&p=2693244
Perhaps, my problem is having too high a standard for a "movement".
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Can you define "movement" in the political context? This may be a semantic disagreement.
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It clearly is. I think something becomes a (political) movement only after a group of people actually have enough power to change the political dynamics of an issue. For example our historic equal civil rights quest, did not become a movement until about the early 1900's. I would argue the birth of the NAACP was the birth of the "movement. There was a much sharper focus and ability to affect change after the formation of the NAACP, a clear moment of demarcation in my opinion.