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North American Man/Boy Love Association
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), US pedophile advocacy group founded in Boston in 1978 after the Revere sex scandal; advocates adult sexual behavior with male children, opposes age-of-consent laws, widely reviled and largely defunct.
North Korean nationalism
North Korean nationalism is the state-sponsored nationalism of the DPRK, built on juche (self-reliance), the Kim family cult, and anti-colonial legacy; it shifted in 2023-24 to a two-hostile-states doctrine abandoning unification.
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse: 1 November 2024 disaster in Serbia in which a renovated concrete canopy fell at 11:52, killing 16; caused most likely by corroded prestressing wires, it triggered Serbia's largest student-led anti-corruption protests and indictments of 13 people including ex-minister Goran Vesic.
Nudity and protest
Nudity and protest: deliberate public nakedness as a political tactic, from the 1903 Doukhobor marches and 1929 Igbo Women's War to Manipur 2004, Uganda, FEMEN, and the World Naked Bike Ride.
Occupy movement
Occupy movement, also called Occupy Wall Street, was a decentralized 2011 protest movement against economic inequality, occupying Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, using consensus-based General Assemblies and the slogan "We are the 99%".
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a leaderless protest movement begun September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York, called by Adbusters, protesting inequality as the 99 percent; it spread to hundreds of sites, shifted political discourse, and collapsed by 2012.
Omladina
Omladina (Serbian and Czech for "youth") refers to the United Serbian Youth founded in 1866 and a Czech radical youth movement tried in Prague in 1893–1894.
Online shaming
Online shaming is public social policing of perceived transgressions via social media, also called cancel culture or call-out culture. Key facts: no accepted definition, viral pile-ons, documented job loss and depression, five ethical constraints, and platform regulation debates.
Open defecation
Open defecation is defecating in fields, bushes, water, or other open spaces instead of using a toilet. 354 million people practised it in 2024, down from 1.3 billion in 2000; ending it is SDG target 6.2.
Operation Raise the Colours
Operation Raise the Colours: 2025 UK campaign tying St George's Crosses and Union Jacks to lampposts, bridges and roundabouts, begun in Birmingham and east London, spread via social media, linked to far-right organisers and council removal disputes.
Opium den
An opium den was an establishment where opium was prepared and smoked, arising in eighteenth-century China and spreading to North America, Britain, and Southeast Asia by the mid-nineteenth century.
Opium of the people
Opium of the people: Karl Marx's phrase from his 1844 Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes), describing religion as both consolation for and protest against real suffering.
Opposition to AI data centers
Opposition to AI data centers is the U.S. grassroots and political backlash against AI-serving facilities, over electricity bills, water use, noise, tax breaks, and few jobs, producing moratoria, bans, Gallup majorities, and state legislation.
Oppression
Oppression: the systematic, unjust constraint or reduction of a group through social forces. Covers Young's five faces, Frye's enclosing structures, structural operation, and 2021 ILO count of 49.6 million in modern slavery.
Orelha case
Orelha case (Caso Orelha): 2026 Brazilian animal-cruelty investigation after the community dog Orelha of Praia Brava, Florianópolis, was beaten by teenagers on 4 January 2026, sparking national protests and the 'Justiça por Orelha' decree.
Oxfam
Oxfam, from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (founded 1942), is a global confederation of 20+ charitable affiliates fighting inequality, poverty, and injustice in over 70 countries, headquartered via its Secretariat in Nairobi.
Pacifism
Pacifism is a commitment to peace and opposition to war, ranging from absolute rejection of all violence to contingent anti-warism. Also called relative or conditional pacifism; rooted in Christian, Indian ahimsa, and other traditions; linked to conscientious objection law.
Pallbearer
Pallbearer: a person who carries or escorts a coffin or casket at a funeral, also called coffin bearer. From pall, the cloth over a coffin; first recorded 1707. Usually six bearers, often family or friends, with honorary pallbearers recognized without lifting.
Parental abuse by children
Parental abuse by children, also called child-to-parent violence (CPV) or CAPVA, is abuse of a parent or carer by a child, physical, psychological, or financial; average prevalence about 35%, linked to early family victimization, with no universal definition.
Parental leave
Parental leave: employment-protected, often paid time off for parents of a new child, alongside maternity and paternity leave. ILO standards set 14 weeks maternity; 68 of 185 countries have parental leave rights; the US mandates only 12 weeks unpaid.
Patrick Little (neo-Nazi)
Patrick Little is an American neo-Nazi activist and former Marine sergeant who ran as a Republican for the 2018 California US Senate seat against Dianne Feinstein, polled second at 18 percent, was expelled from the California GOP convention, finished 12th, and later ran for office in Idaho and for president in 2020.
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors, also known as Patrisse Khan-Cullors, is an American artist and activist born in Los Angeles in 1983, best known as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி)
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி), also spelled Azhagiri, 1900–1949, Tamil Self-Respect Movement orator called the 'whirlwind speaker' and 'Anjaa Nenjan', co-led the 1938 Trichy-to-Madras anti-Hindi march.
Patty Wetterling
Patty Wetterling, American child-safety advocate from St. Joseph, Minnesota; mother of abducted Jacob Wetterling; co-founded Jacob Wetterling Foundation, prompted the 1994 federal sex offender registry act, chaired NCMEC, later criticized registries.
Peace
Peace, in peace research, means more than the absence of war: negative peace is the absence of direct violence, while positive peace, per Johan Galtung, adds social justice and the absence of structural and cultural violence, underpinning UN peacebuilding and indices like the Global Peace Index.
Pedophile advocacy groups
Pedophile advocacy groups, including NAMBLA (founded 1978, Boston), the Rene Guyon Society, and the Childhood Sensuality Circle, advocate adult sexual behavior with children and its decriminalization; later online movements promoted the 'minor attracted person' terminology.
Pegida
Pegida (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) is a right-wing populist, anti-immigration protest movement founded by Lutz Bachmann in Dresden in October 2014, known for Monday marches peaking at about 25,000 in January 2015 and close ties to the AfD.
Penguin Revolution
The Penguin Revolution, or Revolución Pingüina, was the 2006 wave of protests by Chilean secondary school students that put education reform at the center of Chilean politics.
People-first language
People-first language (person-first language) places the person before the disability, e.g. "person with epilepsy"; contrasted with identity-first language ("disabled person"), it is used by the CRPD and CDC, though surveys show mixed preferences among disabled people.
Perpetual foreigner
The perpetual foreigner (forever foreigner) stereotype casts Asian Americans as inherently foreign regardless of citizenship or generations in the U.S.; a component of Kim's 1999 racial triangulation, distinct from the model minority stereotype.