ACTIVIST GROUP

Specialty Definition: Activism

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. This action is in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial argument.
There are many different forms of activism; a select list follows.

Voluntary simplicity
Anarchism
Nonviolence
Civil disobedience
Civil and social disobedience
Animal rights activism
Anticonsumerist activism
Anti-corporate activism
Anti-racist activism
Economic activism
Environmental activism
Fair trade
hacktivism
Culture jamming
Demonstrations
Tactical Frivolity
Sniggling
Guerrilla communication

See also: direct action
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Activism."

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACTIVIST GROUP

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	South Africa	During the year, an activist group called Treatment Action Campaign sued the Government in court for failing to provide drugs which reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. (references)
Minorities	Burma	An activist group based in Thailand alleged that another 100 persons were killed in a riot in southern Burma, during which members of the USDA clashed with Muslims in Pha-auk village. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACTIVIST GROUP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
environment activist group	10
activist group	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ACTIVIST GROUP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-v"
	-3 letters: prosciutti.
	-4 letters: guitarist, orgiastic, parotitis, patriotic, patristic, prostatic, psoriatic, touristic, tropistic, utopistic, vicarious, victorias, virtuosic, vitiators, vorticist.
	-5 letters: activist, aoristic, apricots, artistic, autistic, autopsic, captious, citators, gracious, opticist, orgastic, outstrip, ovaritis, patriots, paviours, piscator, protatic, puristic, ricottas, tipcarts, truistic, victoria, virtuosa, virtuosi, vitiator, votarist.
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