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Affinity group
Affinity groups is a group of human beings formed around the same shared goals or interest. The term was first coined and used by Ben Morea in the contenxt of the U.S. antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Later, anti-war activists on college campuses organized around their interests or backgrounds. The origin of affinity groups dates back to 19th century Spain, where they were called tertulias or grupos de afinidad by Spanish anarchists[1]. They became popular again in the 1970s in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States and Europe. The 30,000 person occupation and blockade of the Ruhr nuclear power station in Germany in 1969 was organized on the affinity group model.[2] [3] Today, the structure is used by many different activists: animal rights, environmental, anti-war, and anti-globalization, to name some examples. The 1999 protests in Seattle which shut down the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 included coordinated organization by many clusters of affinity groups.[4]
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- Affinity Groups, a CrimethInc.net Letterbomb
- Directaction.org - hundreds of AG actions, photos, and resources
