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Lightstick protests
Lightstick protests (eungwonbong siwi) are South Korean demonstrations, from December 2024 against Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law, where K-pop concert light sticks replaced candlelight vigil candles as symbols of nonviolent pro-democracy protest.
Lila Rose
Lila Rose, American anti-abortion activist, author, and podcast host; founded Live Action at 15 (2003), known for undercover Planned Parenthood videos, debates, the Baby Olivia video, and contested editing and misinformation criticisms.
Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is a Palestinian-American Muslim activist from Brooklyn, former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-founder of MPower Change, and national co-chair of the 2017 Women's March.
Lindsay Mills
Lindsay Mills, born 1985 in Laurel, Maryland, is an American acrobat, pole dancer, and photographer, the girlfriend and later wife of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who joined him in Russia in 2014.
List of child brides
Child brides are girls married or in union before age 18; about 650 million women alive today married as children. Article lists historical cases, prevalence, legal minimum ages, and interventions.
List of civil rights leaders
List of civil rights leaders, also called civil rights activists, covering American figures from NAACP founders (Wells, Du Bois, Ovington) through SCLC, the 1963 March on Washington, Ella Baker, Jesse Jackson, and present-day leaders like Patrisse Khan-Cullors.
List of conspiracy theories
List of conspiracy theories: catalogs of claims attributing events to secret small-group plots, covering Keeley's definition, QAnon, 5G COVID-19, anti-vaccine, election, and Illuminati entries, verdict systems, and motive meta-analysis findings.
List of disability-related terms with negative connotations
Disability-related terms with negative connotations: words like crippled, wheelchair bound, handicapped, deaf and dumb, differently abled, and spaz flagged by APA, NIH, CDC, UN, and Australian style guides, with preferred alternatives.
List of environmental organisations topics
The List of environmental organizations topics is a Wikipedia index page cataloging the subject areas on which environmental organizations focus, grouping several hundred topics under headings such as agriculture, climate change, energy, and wildlife.
List of incidents of cannibalism
A list of notable incidents and sites of cannibalism documented by archaeological, historical, and forensic evidence, from 1.45-million-year-old hominin bones to the 1990s Snowtown killings.
List of livestreamed suicides
Livestreamed suicides, or online broadcast suicidality, are real-time broadcasts of suicide acts on platforms like Periscope, Facebook Live, and Discord; documented cases include Océane (2016), Katelyn Nicole Davis, Nakia Venant, Samuel Hervey, and Brazil's 2026 Discord ban.
List of peace activists
List of peace activists: people who work against war through nonviolent action, advocacy, and organizing, from the 1816 Peace Society to Nobel Peace Prize laureates such as Dunant, Gandhi, King, Karman, Mohammadi, Machado, and Pillay.
List of people who died in traffic collisions
List of people who died in traffic collisions: notable individuals whose cause of death was a road traffic crash, including Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, T. E. Lawrence, George S. Patton, Jim Clark, Cliff Burton, and Anne Heche, against the 30-day statistical definition and a global toll of about 1.19 million road deaths a year.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously (1970s)
A list of 1970s disappearance cases spanning individual unsolved vanishings like Etan Patz, the secret burials of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, and mass state disappearances in Latin America.
List of philanthropists
List of philanthropists: ranked rosters such as the Chronicle's Philanthropy 50 and the Giving Pledge, covering top givers like Bloomberg, MacKenzie Scott, and Buffett, compilation methods, and criticisms.
List of slaves
A list of slaves, also called a list of enslaved people, is a historical register or census schedule enumerating enslaved people by name or number, kept by enslavers and governments.
List of social movements
List of social movements: overview of social movements as sustained collective efforts for change, covering Aberle's revolutionary, redemptive, reformative, and alternative typology, resource mobilization and political process theories, and examples from anti-slavery to civil rights.
List of social nudity places in Europe
Social nudity places in Europe: designated FKK and naturiste beaches, campsites, resorts and villages such as Heliopolis (1931), Euronat (335 ha), Cap d'Agde, Koversada, Valalta, Vera Playa and Maspalomas, with formats, legal footing and etiquette.
List of sundown towns in the United States
List of sundown towns in the United States: compilations of places that deliberately excluded Black residents, chiefly 1890-1968, identified by James Loewen and the Tougaloo registry; 2,248 places in a 2024 dataset, concentrated outside the South, with Illinois alone holding 456.
Litter
Litter is waste discarded outside proper disposal systems, on roadsides, parks, beaches, and waterways. Emerging as a US public issue after World War II amid disposable packaging, it is addressed by Keep America Beautiful campaigns, container deposit laws, and legal cleanup duties.
Livestrong Foundation
Livestrong Foundation, formerly the Lance Armstrong Foundation, is an Austin, Texas cancer-survivorship nonprofit founded in 1997, known for the 2004 $1 yellow Nike wristband, renamed in 2012 after Armstrong's doping ban.
Livia Giuggioli Firth
Livia Giuggioli Firth, Italian sustainability campaigner, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and co-founder of Eco-Age, a consultancy that closed in 2024 after fraud and relaunched in 2025.
Lizzie Velásquez
Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989, Austin, Texas) is an American motivational speaker, author, and anti-bullying activist with a rare fat-accumulation disorder, known for her viral TEDxAustinWomen talk and the documentary A Brave Heart.
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف)
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف) is a Saudi-born Muslim linguist, educator, and peace activist based in Abu Dhabi, also called Louay Al Sharif. A Penn State master's graduate and PR company owner, he advocates Muslim-Jewish reconciliation and the Abraham Accords as a self-described Muslim Zionist.
Looksmaxxing
Looksmaxxing (lookmaxxing) is an online subculture from incel forums, around 2015, focused on maximizing male appearance via softmaxxing (grooming) and hardmaxxing (surgery, bonesmashing); mainstreamed on TikTok and linked to body image harms.
Lynching
Lynching, extrajudicial mob killing; in the US chiefly racial terror lynching of Black Americans, 1865–1950. EJI documents nearly 6,500 lynchings; federal law came only with the 2022 Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস)
Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস), Hindu garment worker lynched in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 18 December 2025 over false blasphemy allegations; body hung and burned; no evidence found; 23+ arrests.
Magonism
Magonism (Spanish: magonismo) is the political movement organized around Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Liberal Party, which opposed the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and fought in the Mexican Revolution from 1910.
Mahad Satyagraha
Mahad Satyagraha, Chavdar Tale satyagraha: 1927 nonviolent campaign led by B. R. Ambedkar at Mahad, Maharashtra, asserting the Depressed Classes' right to draw water from the Chavdar Tank, including the 20 March water claiming, the 25 December 1927 Manusmriti burning, and a decade of litigation.
Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm Lateef Shabazz (1984–2013), grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X, son of Qubilah Shabazz; pleaded guilty at 12 in the 1997 fire that killed Betty Shabazz; beaten to death in Mexico City at 28.