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Flight shame
Flight shame (Swedish flygskam) is guilt or public shaming about flying's climate impact. It emerged in Sweden in 2016-2017 around Greta Thunberg and other figures who quit flying, with measurable Swedish travel drops, changing aviation social norms, and limited behavior change elsewhere.
Flint water crisis
Flint water crisis: 2014–2015 drinking water lead contamination in Flint, Michigan after the Flint River switch without corrosion control, exposing about 99,000 residents, prompting the $600 million state settlement, criminal cases, and lead pipe replacement.
Florence Tullis
Florence "Rusty" Tullis, also known as Rusty Dennis, was the California mother of Rocky Dennis, who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, and was portrayed by Cher in the 1985 film Mask; she died in 2006 at 70 after a motorcycle accident.
Flower power
Flower power: slogan of the 1960s hippie or flower children counterculture, advocating peace, love, and passive resistance; often attributed to Allen Ginsberg's 1965 essay, known for flowers in gun barrels at the 1967 Pentagon march.
Forbidden knowledge
Forbidden knowledge: knowledge considered too sensitive, dangerous, or taboo to produce, a concept in sociology of science from Kempner, Merz, and Bosk's 2011 interview study, related to agnotology and undone science.
Forced assimilation
Forced assimilation is coerced absorption of minorities into a dominant culture, chiefly via boarding and residential schools. Key cases: US Indian boarding schools (1819-1969, 417 schools), Canadian residential schools, and China's Tibetan schooling policies.
Forced displacement in Colombia
Forced displacement in Colombia, known in Spanish as desplazamiento forzado, is the forced internal migration driven by armed conflict, with over 9 million registered victims since 1985.
Forced marriage
Forced marriage: a marriage without full, free, informed consent of one or both spouses, secured by violence, threats, deception or financial pressure. Covers UN definitions, UK law (ASBCPA 2014, minimum age 18), SDG 5.3, and interventions.
Fourteen Words
Fourteen Words (14, 14/88) is the white supremacist slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children," coined by The Order member David Lane; the number 14 and the combined code 1488 serve as movement shorthand.
Framing (social sciences)
Framing (social sciences): selection and salience in constructing meaning, from Goffman's Frame Analysis to social movement framing (diagnostic, prognostic, motivational tasks; Snow and Benford) and media framing effects research.
Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr. (born 1969) is a Chicago activist, son of slain Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton and Akua Njeri. He leads the Black Panther Party Cubs, founded the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, served nine years in prison, and consulted on Judas and the Black Messiah.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American abolitionist, orator, and publisher who escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became a leading spokesman for abolition.
Free love
Free love is a social movement originating in the mid-nineteenth century that holds love, sex, and marriage should follow personal choice, not state or religious regulation.
Free software movement
The free software movement, launched by Richard Stallman's 1983 GNU Project and the 1985 Free Software Foundation, campaigns for users' four essential freedoms to run, study, redistribute, and modify software, distinct from the 1998 open source movement.
Freikörperkultur
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or free body culture, is the German movement and practice of nude bathing and recreation in nature, arising around 1900 with Lebensreform, mass-based in the GDR, and organized today by the DFK with declining membership.
Freya Leach
Freya Leach is an Australian conservative political commentator and director of the Centre for Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Centre. She was a Liberal Party candidate in 2023.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal
Fuji Television sexual harassment scandal (2024–2025): Masahiro Nakai (中居正広) assault allegations, sponsor exodus, executive resignations, third-party report, and Fuji TV's reforms and recovery.
Funeral director
Funeral director, also called mortician or undertaker, is a licensed professional who arranges funerals, handles body care and legal paperwork, and coordinates burial or cremation; US licensing requires education, internship, and exams, while UK regulation remains largely voluntary outside Scotland.
Gang stalking
Gang stalking (gangstalking) is a persecutory belief system in which targeted individuals believe groups, including government, monitor and harass them; clinicians view it as delusional.
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली)
Gangubai Kothewali (गंगूबाई कोठेवाली), born Ganga Harjeevandas Kathiawadi (1907–1977), was a Mumbai brothel madam and sex workers' rights figure in Kamathipura, later depicted in Bhansali's 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
Gary Webb
Gary Webb (1955–2004) was an American investigative journalist whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series "Dark Alliance" linked Contra cocaine trafficking to the Los Angeles crack epidemic, triggering a media backlash and government investigations.
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್)
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್), Kannada journalist and activist, editor of Lankesh Patrike and Gauri Lankesh Patrike, critic of right-wing politics, shot dead in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017; trial ongoing, no convictions as of 2025.
Gaza Solidarity Encampment (Columbia University)
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestinian student tent camp on Columbia University's South Lawn, April 17-30, 2024, organized by CUAD, SJP, and JVP to demand divestment, transparency, and amnesty; it sparked nationwide campus encampments and ended in NYPD clearances and over 100 arrests.
Gaza war protests at Columbia University
Gaza war protests at Columbia University: pro-Palestinian student campaign begun April 17, 2024 with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment (50 tents, CUAD), demanding ceasefire and divestment; NYPD clearances April 18 and April 30, Hamilton Hall occupation, and a national campus encampment movement.
Genocide Watch
Genocide Watch is an NGO founded by Gregory H. Stanton for genocide prevention and early warning, known for the Eight (1996) and Ten (2012) Stages of Genocide model, alert levels, and the Alliance Against Genocide.
George Floyd protests
George Floyd protests: 2020 nationwide and international demonstrations after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020; the largest protest movement in US history, with 15-26 million participants, about 94% nonviolent.
George Padmore
George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian Pan-Africanist writer and organizer who led the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and advised Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Gongadze (Георгій Гонгадзе), Ukrainian investigative journalist, Georgian-born, founder of Ukrayinska Pravda; kidnapped and murdered in September 2000; Melnychenko tapes implicated President Kuchma; ECHR ruled against Ukraine; General Pukach convicted.
Georgy Gapon
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (Георгий Аполлонович Гапон, 1870–1906), Russian Orthodox priest and police-linked labor organizer, founded the Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers, led the 9 January 1905 Bloody Sunday march, and was hanged by SR militants in 1906 after exposure as an Okhrana agent.