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Line chart of social movement stages. Headers: Steady State; Build-up of Stress in the System; Seen as a General Problem; Resolution. Stages: 1 Business-as-usual, 2 Normal Channels Fail, 3 Conditions Ripen, 4 Take Off!, 5 Activist "Failure", 6 Win Majority of Public, 7 Success!, 8 Moving On. Three curves labeled Public Awareness of Problem, Public Opposition to Powerholder Policies, Public Support for Movement…

Eight Stages of a Social Movement, Charted

A social movement stages chart tracks public awareness, opposition and support from business-as-usual to success. A civics-class style diagram for adults who learned this in school.

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Line chart of social movement stages. Headers: Steady State; Build-up of Stress in the System; Seen as a General Problem; Resolution. Stages: 1 Business-as-usual, 2 Normal Channels Fail, 3 Conditions Ripen, 4 Take Off!, 5 Activist "Failure", 6 Win Majority of Public, 7 Success!, 8 Moving On. Three curves labeled Public Awareness of Problem, Public Opposition to Powerholder Policies, Public Support for Movement…

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A white subway-tile wall with a wooden-framed panel lit by lamps and draped with green ivy above. Black capital letters read: "BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SUCK AT SOMETHING NEW." A sidewalk curb and dark street run below. Photo of a mountain road that has collapsed into a huge gap, with a raised broken slab of asphalt on the far side. A yellow diamond road sign reads "JUST SPEED UP A BIT". A smaller yellow sign below it reads "YOU GOT THIS". Evergreen forest in the background. Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, a yellow cartoon dog with wide eyes and raised hands, against a blue sunburst background. Top text: "SUCKING AT SOMETHING". Bottom text: "IS THE FIRST STEP TO BECOMING SORTA GOOD AT SOMETHING". A weathered paper poster pasted on a gritty wall above a black stenciled typewriter. Typewriter-font text reads: "Everyone here is either so wrapped up in creating their own success story or so damaged from their failure that resentment is often all we have in common." Signed WRDSMITH. Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,… A hand-drawn style graph titled "Caley Unified Theory of Legal Realism". Y-axis: "Dipshittery of Underlying Legal Argument" with arrow "argument more dipshitty". X-axis: "Political Constraints (likelihood of mass protest)" with arrow "protests more likely". A diagonal line is labeled "50/50 probability of conservative justices ruling for conservative policy outcomes". Above it: oval "conservatives lose here"; below…

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