Unsucsessful pressure group Flashcards

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What’s are the 5 unsuccessful pressure groups?

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-Extinction rebellion
-Fathers 4 justice
-Anyonymous
-Green peace
-Occupy

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What is exinction rebellion issue?

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An action group to stop climate change

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Extinction rebellion tactics?

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Blockading roads, motorways, bridge, city centre and london underground

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Did extinctions rebellion get any laws changed?

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Micheal give agreed to declare a climate change emergency

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Is extinction rebellion contreversial?

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Tactics alienate potential allies and supporters
Middle class activism/ no diversity
Disputed science
Cost of policing

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Relevant info extinction rebellion?

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links to just stop oil

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What is the main issue causing fathers 4 justice?

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A less sexiest courthouse and ability to get custody and access rights for divorce fathers

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Tactics of fathers 4 justice?

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Publicity stunts
Dressed up as santa and superhero
Disrupted national lottery live show
Powder attak on tony blair during PMQ
Plot to kidnap PM’s son Leo Blair

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Where their any law changes for F4J?

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Limited change however their is some evidence to suggest a more sympathetic treatment for men in court

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Controversy of F4J?

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Tactics alienate potential allies and supporters
Groups divided into splinter movements e.g. The real F4J

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Relevant info about F4J?

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Founder Micheal o’conner dissolved the group due to its growing radioactivity in some of his group
Media coverage shifted from amusmeny to critisim
An outsider group who makes more noise then impact

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What was the key issue to start anonymous?

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Anticapatalism, attak on global capatalist corporate such as paypal amazon apple google master card visa CIA FVI
Targets the church of scientology
Defends wiki leaks etc

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Tactics of anonymous?

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-Hactivism
-Distupts and embarrass global website my hacking website; installing mallaerar
didos attacks, releasing customers private info, disrupting email apps etc that rely on
-data breach
-trolling

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Has anonymous changed any laws?

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No

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Controversy of anonymous?

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-Student teen activist
-Disrupts economic activity
-Attaks on members of publics
-Seceral members sentence to long prison sentences
-Accused of being bored teenagers getting kicks out of being annoying

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Relevant information on anonymous?

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Strong link to occupy
Closed down by FBI
Movement faded quickly from consiusness
Makes more noise then impact

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What issues created greenpeace?

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Wanted the prevention of shell oil from being disused oil in a depot called Brent Spar in the atlantic ocean

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Tactics of green peace?

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Illegal occupied Brent Spar at sea
Organising Boycott of shell throughly Germany

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Did green peace change any laws?

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She’ll agreed not to dispose of Brent Spar in the atlantic

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Controversy of green peace?

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Disruption of economic activity
Cost shell 40 million
Misleading info green peace claimed plan was to dump spar in north sea not atlantic
Misleads public over amount of residue oil on soar
Middle class activism
Disrupting science

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Info about green peace?

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Spar stored in Norwegian field for 7 years and then eventually became a full size and used as a port of a ferry terminal

22
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What issue created occupy?

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Anti capatlam and anti globalisation
Attacks on 1% if the world population who owns 99% or the world wealth- we are the other 99%

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What tactics did occupy use?

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Occupying (camping) in high profile places around the world e.g. wall street, st paul cathedral and sheffield cathedral
Protest, marches and demonstrations
First group to successfully use social media

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Did occupy change any laws?

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No

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Controversy’s of occupy?

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-Allegations of sexual abuse in camps
-Violence police tactics e.g. pepper spray in USA
-Disruption of economic activity
-Cost of policing

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Relevant information of occupy?

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Links to anonymous
Movement went quickly for public consciously
Only on 1% of world but still own 99%
An outsider group making more noise then impact