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liberation movement refers to a group or organization that works towards freeing a particular group or society from oppression, discrimination, or unjust treatment. It aims to bring about freedom, equality, and fairness for those who are being oppressed or marginalized.
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This optimism was also easy to find in the political sphere at the turn of the century, when
national liberation movements seemed able to work around traditional forms of censorship.
That is, the
sexual liberation movement denied sex all intrinsic moral content and reduced sexual morality to the requirement that the consent of the participating parties be respected.
But there has also been an exaggeration in the women's
liberation movement which has contributed to a breakdown in marriages.
If the answer's yes, the other guys will be thanking you — and your
leg liberation movement might even get you a free drink.
Conservatives should not permit their important critique of Marxism - Leninism to exaggerate the presence of Marxist - Leninists in
liberation movements in the Third World.
[35] Their grounding in the social conscience of the Black Church and their participation in
liberation movements of the sixties and seventies informed their interpretation and practice of New Thought.
It insists on the important historical role of
black liberation movements for other pursuits of social justice and requires that attention be paid to the diverse experiences of blackness and American citizenship within our country.
The exhibition includes photographs of locations in Algiers that once housed
various liberation movements, accompanied by a video, written and directed by Khalili, that features two young Algerian translators describing pieces of revolutionary history that occurred in Algiers and beyond.
According to Meleko Mokgosi the only way to investigate the history of Southern African
liberation movements from Western hegemony is paradoxically via the decidedly complicit Western genre of History Painting.
Ideally both groups are committed to peace and disarmament, but some Christians find it difficult to take a pacifist, nonviolent line because they are compassionately involved
with liberation movements seeking to overthrow dictatorial governments.
Tom's story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay
liberation movement for which his leather - clad studs served as a defiant emblem.
In commemoration of the 1960s rally cry «Freedom Now» and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Now: The Call and Look of Freedom spotlights the urgency, self - determination, and hope of the African -
American liberation movement through the visual arts.
In Samual Fosso's 2008 series of self - portraits «African Spirits,» he appears as such icons of the pan-African
liberation movement as Angela Davis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Aimé Césaire, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, and, here, Malcolm X.
According to the Marxists,
secular liberation movements and the religious countermovements to which they give rise are cut from the same cloth: Both take for granted the repressive nature of the modern nation state, with its supposedly hypocritical promise of rights for all.
Since the inception of the sexual
liberation movement women have been faced with polarizing views on sexuality, including pornography and erotica, and it's place within feminism.
The title is used as a starting point to think about other «rose» things, about how color is used to code
liberation movements around the world, and how it is used as a selling device.
In the midst of the women's
liberation movement between 1964 and 1987, American artist Alice Neel painted a series of seven pregnant nudes.
Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice delivered its highly anticipated judgment in case C - 104 / 16 P Council v Front Polisario, on appeal against the General Court (GC) judgment in case T - 512 / 12 Front Polisario v Council, an action for annulment brought by Front Polisario, the national
liberation movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.
The
main liberation movement, the ANC, long committed to nonviolent resistance under the influence of Gandhi and its Christian roots, had by 1963 decided, after agonizing debate, to engage in an armed struggle.
In fact, most of those associated with the early years of Solidarnosc» the great
Polish liberation movement SolidarIty» had had all the collectivism, socialism, government - controlled economy, nanny state, and thugocracy they could stomach....
Those who
confuse liberation movements with eternal salvation convert the gospel into an ideological promotion of political and social transformation.
At the same time, those who have understood their faith in terms of the New Deal or the more
recent liberation movements are plunged into despair.
In fact,
U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.
Modern civil rights and
liberation movements thus can be understood as struggles against patriarchal deformations of democracy.
Not liberation movements, although who can not stand with those who cry out in rage and frustration at the horror of what we are doing?
Of deep concern to King was the emergence of black separatism as an ideology, and along with it the use of anti-Semitism as a recruiting device for
separatist liberation movements.
But Walzer's supposed paradox — that secular national
liberation movements generate religious countermovements — is actually not that surprising.
Even when the post-World War II national
liberation movements changed the political alignment of the world, the old structures of economic and information dependence persisted.
Included are varied specifics such as: economic theory; psychiatry; systems analysis; the growth of bureaucracies; the science of management; the development of the democratic ideal; striving for universal education; personalism (fulfilling the earlier promise of the Enlightenment); the rise and fall of colonialism; and
modem liberation movements.
They are not saying Blacks are better than all other lives rather, they're asking for the same recognition given to the women's movement,
Chicano liberation movement, and queer movements, be granted equally to a movement centrally focused on Black lives.
Whoever emerges at the helm of the African National Congress, a 105 - year -
old liberation movement that dominates Africa's most industrialized economy, is likely to become the country's next president after elections in 2019.
But both partisans and detractors of the July Revolution also agree on its orientation towards Egypt's millions of poor at home, and towards pan-Arabism and
liberation movements abroad.
BY ANDY HUMM The Stonewall Inn bar ---- the 1969 raid on which sparked the modern
LGBT liberation movement ---- is on a street renamed Stonewall Place and was made an official National Historic Landmark in 2000, but it does not have an official plaque marking its role in history.
Since the 60s, when women's
liberation movements stood up and called for sweeping changes to access to equal pay, divorce and abortion, the passionate demonstrations, speeches and rallies have gradually gone quiet.
The
Biafra liberation movement is sacrosanct and waxing stronger both home and in diaspora and will not go back in the quest for the restoration of Biafra, anybody who is thinking to sabotage the struggle is doing that to his or her own detriment».
The contest was the early - 70s
female liberation movement given a sporting arena and provided a battleground where Title IX, an Educational Amendment guaranteeing equal financial resources to male and female sports, essentially won out.
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