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East Timor solidarity movement
The East Timor solidarity movement was an international network of activists, churches, parliamentarians, and NGOs that campaigned from 1975 to 1999 for East Timor's self-determination after Indonesia's invasion.
Ed Roberts (activist)
Ed Roberts (1939–1995), American disability rights activist and father of the Independent Living movement; first severely disabled UC Berkeley student, founder of the Center for Independent Living, and California Rehabilitation director.
Edison Chen photo scandal
Edison Chen photo scandal (陳冠希裸照事件, Sexy Photos Gate), January 2008 Hong Kong privacy breach: intimate photos of actor Edison Chen with female celebrities leaked from his computer, triggering arrests, his showbiz exit, and privacy-law debates.
Effective accelerationism
Effective accelerationism, abbreviated e/acc, is a techno-optimist movement begun on X in 2022 that argues powerful technology, especially AGI, should be advanced quickly rather than held back.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), American civil rights organizer; NAACP director of branches, SCLC executive secretary, and organizer of the April 1960 Shaw University conference that founded SNCC, advocating group-centered, grassroots leadership.
Elliot Rodger
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014), London-born son of director Peter Rodger, killed six in the 2014 Isla Vista attack after two years of planning; his manifesto and incel canonization as 'The Supreme Gentleman' shaped misogynistic-extremism research.
Emma Vigeland
Emma Vigeland (born 1994) is an American progressive commentator, co-host of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and host of the Emmajority Report, formerly a field reporter and producer at The Young Turks.
Emos vs. Punks
Emos vs. punks: the 2008 Mexico City conflict in which punks, metalheads, and other urban tribes attacked emo youths, culminating in the 16 March 2008 Glorieta de Insurgentes clash, driven by accusations of style copying, homophobia, and gender norms.
Employment of autistic people
Employment of autistic people, also called autism and employment, covers how autistic adults participate in paid work; UK employment rates are far below those of other groups.
End SARS
#EndSARS is Nigeria's decentralized youth-led movement against police brutality, launched on social media in 2017 and peaking in October 2020 protests that forced the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), followed by the Lekki toll gate shooting.
Environmental issues in India
Environmental issues in India: air pollution (1.7 million deaths in 2022 per The Lancet), water stress and pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss in the Western Ghats, Himalayan degradation, and extreme weather; governed by MoEFCC, CPCB, SPCBs, and EIA rules.
Environmental issues in the Niger Delta
The environmental issues in the Niger Delta arise from decades of petroleum extraction causing oil spills and gas flaring that contaminate soil, water, and air, harming livelihoods.
Environmental justice
Environmental justice: fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental law and policy. Born in the 1982 Warren County, NC PCB protests; codified in US Executive Order 12898 (1994); now a global research and policy field.
Environmental movement
The environmental movement, also called the ecology movement, is a network of individuals, groups, and organizations seeking to protect the natural environment through policy and behavior change.
Environmental racism
Environmental racism: disproportionate exposure of racialized communities to pollution and hazards via siting, housing, and enforcement disparities. Key cases: Cancer Alley, Warren County, Aamjiwnaang; landmark 1987 UCC report; EO 12898.
Ethel Kennedy
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), American human rights activist, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, mother of 11 children, founder of RFK Human Rights, and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Ethiopian World Federation
The Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is a Pan-African organization founded in New York City in 1937 at Emperor Haile Selassie's request to unite Black support for Ethiopia.
Eugene Allen
Eugene Allen (1919–2010) was a White House butler and maître d' for 34 years, serving eight presidents from Truman to Reagan. His life inspired Lee Daniels' The Butler, whose Cecil Gaines family is largely fictional.
Eugenics
Eugenics, also called racial hygiene, is the discredited theory of improving humans through selective breeding. Coined by Galton in 1883; drove US sterilization laws and Nazi forced sterilization programs.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968 after starting Camp Shriver in 1962, and received the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Fat acceptance movement
Fat acceptance movement: social movement against anti-fat stigma and discrimination, originating with the 1967 Central Park fat-in and NAAFA's 1969 founding by Bill Fabrey; includes the Fat Underground, Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973), and Health at Every Size.
FEMA camps conspiracy theory
FEMA camps conspiracy theory: false belief that the US Federal Emergency Management Agency runs secret concentration camps for citizens under martial law; began in 1980s militia circles, repeatedly debunked, resurges around disasters and COVID-19.
Female foeticide in India
Female foeticide in India, also called gender-biased sex selection, is aborting a female fetus after ultrasound sex determination, driven by son preference; illegal under the PC&PNDT Act 1994, it produced child sex ratios as low as 914 in 2011.
Female infanticide
Female infanticide is the killing of girl infants after birth, distinct from female foeticide. Driven by son preference, it has contributed to over 142 million missing women and girls, mainly in Asia and the South Caucasus.
Female infanticide in China
Female infanticide in China: historical killing of infant girls driven by son preference, documented in Imperial China and reported in the 1980s under the one-child policy, now rare and largely replaced by sex-selective abortion and under-reporting.
Femicide
Femicide: intentional killing of women because they are women (feminicidio, feminicide); coined by Diana Russell in 1976, Brussels. About 50,000 women and girls were killed by partners or family in 2024, 60% of all intentional female killings.
Ferguson unrest
Ferguson unrest: protests and civil disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, after police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on August 9, 2014; catalyst for Black Lives Matter and source of a 2015 DOJ pattern-or-practice report and 2016 consent decree.