Clear and Meaningful Goals Required

Goals of a movement must be meaningful and clear. National Liberation Movements were handed very clear and meaningful goals on a plate when they were so openly excluded from every social and political involvement in their own childrens future.
The successful movements showed the oppressive entities that they need to create cloud cover on their exploitive plans. Today it is easy to find injusice and exploitation but it is more difficult to find clear and meaningful goals to achieve social justice. As the arguments have become more convoluted the need for clear and meaningful goals have not diminished. The creative challenge for builders of movements is to interpret the complex and present it in simple and meaninful ways.

Sparking a movement

A mass movement begins with one person. One person can identify what many others are suffering. That one person has to deal with it somehow. That person can choose a heroic response that will add to suffering or will be seen as an inspiration to others. How that heroic action is interpreted is not under the control of any person or group. Actions that spark movements are sincere and without reward. The reward come with history, when others find inspiration and in fact adopt similar behaviors independently. Once a small group decide it is time to confront an injustice the mass movement starts taking shape.

Identifying a movement

One of the ways to identify a movement is to observe the authority responses to criticism. When the authorities clamp down with an iron fist the topic is a candidate for a movement. It does not guarantee a movement. But the alternative seems to indicate a lack of a movement. When the authorities do not clamp down at all on outrageous behavior. Some right wing faith based protesters and their supporters claim their actions as part of a social movement while the authorities accommodate, accommodate, accommodate. They don't have the spark required to make a movement no matter how much they provoke authorities.