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2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
2025 BBC editorial bias allegations center on Michael Prescott's leaked memo, the Panorama Trump speech edit, resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, and Gaza coverage disputes.
2025–2026 Birmingham bin strike
The 2025–2026 Birmingham bin strike: Unite refuse workers' dispute with Birmingham City Council over the scrapped WRCO role and pay, all-out from 11 March 2025, involving a major incident, injunctions, and a £16,000-compensation settlement still pending in 2026.
Abby Johnson (activist)
Abby Johnson, American anti-abortion activist and author of Unplanned; former Planned Parenthood clinic director in Bryan, Texas (Employee of the Year 2008) who left in 2009, founded And Then There Were None in 2012 and ProLove Ministries in 2019; her conversion account is disputed.
Ableism
Ableism is prejudice and discrimination against disabled people, valuing able-bodiedness as the default. Covers its A-B-C components, medical vs social models, 1970s civil-rights origins, structural and internalized forms, and evidence that it varies by disability type, gender, and context.
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a permanent protest camp established in Canberra in 1972 to demand Indigenous land rights, and the world's longest continuing protest site.
Abraxas Foundation
The Abraxas Foundation was a San Francisco-based group founded in 1987 by musician Boyd Rice, blending Satanism, fascism, and Social Darwinist ideas in the late 1980s.
Abuse
Abuse is mistreatment within a relationship of power or trust causing harm to health, dignity, or safety. Covers physical, sexual, emotional abuse, neglect, and coercive control, with WHO prevalence figures, health consequences, history, and prevention.
Accessibility
Accessibility: designing buildings, services, and digital technology usable by people with disabilities; governed by the CRPD, ADA, and WCAG standards (2.2 current, ISO/IEC 40500:2025), rooted in the social model and disability rights movement.
Activism
Activism is deliberate action for social, political, or environmental change through protest, boycotts, organizing, digital campaigns, and shareholder pressure. Covers effectiveness evidence, nonviolent resistance, digital repression, and shrinking civic space.
Advocacy
Advocacy refers to efforts by individuals or groups to shape decision-making in political, economic, and social institutions. It includes lobbying, campaigning, public education, and litigation, and differs from activism and lobbying in scope.
Affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing costing occupants no more than 30 percent of income, per HUD's benchmark. Covers cost burden categories, LIHTC, vouchers, public housing history, zoning effects, and the 2026 ROAD to Housing Act.
Agapia Stephanopoulos
Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, born Anastasia Stephanopoulos, is an American ROCOR nun, sister of George Stephanopoulos, who served at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem and now leads the Convent of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Owego, New York, advocating for Palestinian Christians.
Ageism
Ageism is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination based on age, a term coined by Robert Butler in 1969. It affects all ages, harms older people's health, and is combated through laws, education, and intergenerational programs.
Ahmed Mansoor
Ahmed Mansoor (born 1969) is an Emirati engineer, poet, and human rights activist, 2015 Martin Ennals Award laureate and the "million-dollar dissident" targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware; imprisoned in the UAE since 2017.
Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
September 14, 2015 arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, at MacArthur High School, Irving, Texas, after his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb; no charges, #IStandWithAhmed, lawsuit dismissed 2017.
Akua Njeri
Akua Njeri, born Deborah Johnson, is an American activist and writer, a former Black Panther and the widow of Fred Hampton, killed in a 1969 police raid.
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and MS NOW host who founded the National Action Network in 1991, led protests in cases such as Howard Beach, Diallo, Garner, and Floyd, and ran for president in 2004.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King (1903–1974), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., organist and choir founder at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta; shot dead there June 30, 1974 by Marcus Wayne Chenault while playing the organ.
Alberto Rivera (activist)
Alberto Magno Rivera Romero (1935-1997), Spanish-born US anti-Catholic activist, source of Jack Chick's Vatican conspiracy comics; his Jesuit-priest claims were exposed as fraud by Cornerstone, Christianity Today, and the Christian Research Institute.
Alcohol in Indonesia
Alcohol in Indonesia (minuman beralkohol, miras) covers drinking culture and regulation in Muslim-majority Indonesia: 0.10 litres per capita, 88% abstainers, Aceh sharia caning, bootleg methanol deaths, Arak Bali.
Alex Clark (commentator)
Alex Clark (Alexandra Clark) is an American conservative podcast host at Turning Point USA, hosting Culture Apothecary and formerly POPlitics, and a leading MAHA wellness influencer; distinct from Guardian and CBS journalists of the same name.
Alexis McGill Johnson
Alexis McGill Johnson (born 1972) is an American organizer and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its Action Fund since 2020, after interim leadership from 2019; previously co-founded the Perception Institute.
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner (Al Smith Dinner) is an annual white-tie New York charity gala founded in 1945 honoring the 1928 Catholic presidential nominee, famous for election-year presidential roast speeches and multimillion-dollar Catholic charity fundraising.
Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson (Alison Stewart), Irish businesswoman, Bono's wife since 1982; co-founded ethical fashion label Edun in 2005, took LVMH's 49% stake in 2009, and wound the loss-making brand down in 2018.
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza (born 1981, Oakland) is an American civil rights organizer who co-founded Black Lives Matter after her July 2013 Facebook post following Zimmerman's acquittal; she later founded Black Futures Lab and co-founded Supermajority.
All Lives Matter
All Lives Matter (ALM) is a 2014 social media slogan that emerged as a reactionary response to Black Lives Matter. It affirms attention to all lives.
Alok Dixit
Alok Dixit, Indian activist and former journalist, founded the Stop Acid Attacks campaign (2013) and Chhanv Foundation (2014), Noida-based, and opened the Sheroes Hangout survivor cafés in Agra and Lucknow.
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין)
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין), Israeli activist, co-founder and national co-director of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together; 2011 social protest leader, former Knesset adviser, TIME100 Next 2024 honoree.
Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ) is a women's sorority founded April 17, 1893, at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, by ten women; an NPC member since 1904 with over 175,000 initiates, Quill badge, and Kindly Hearts philanthropy.
Alter-globalization
Alter-globalization, also called alternative globalization or alter-mundialization, is a transnational social movement favoring global cooperation while opposing neoliberal globalization's harms; its central expression is the World Social Forum under the slogan "another world is possible".