2.       "wave of protests after jury doesn't indict police officer in Eric Garner chokehold case". (NYTimes, 2014) *No Social Change was achieved despite thousands protesting for police reform after Eric Garner was killed by police."

1.       After police killed George FLoyd - "as many as 21 million adults had attended the Black Lives Matter protest"(CNN, 2020). These large protests were successful and they managed to achieve Social Change in the form of the Police Reform Bill introduced to parliament by the Democratic Party

2.      After police shot unarmed black man Jacob Blake "Some NBA arenas will become 2020 voting locations"(BusinessInsider, 2020). - This was to support African Americans to vote, and to support the Black Lives Matter movement. The NBA players were able to achieve Social Change to support the BLM movement to support more African Americans to vote

“One thing for me is that Breonna Taylor’s killers are still allowed to roam around free.” – Paul George(BleacherReport, 2020). NBA player Paul George was campaigning for the BLM movements #JusticeforBreonna protest and were able to achieve Breonna’s Law in Louisville, which now prevents police the right to search houses without a warrant. 

Power Use by the Opposition

Successful
1.       “New York City police arrested 223 people in overnight protests.”(ABCNews, 2014). The Police were able to resist Social Change protests from the Black Lives Matter movement after the killing of Eric Garner by arresting over 200 protestors.

2.       “Colin Kaepernick forced exile has lasted over 500 days.”(TheIntercept, 2018). The NFL has successfully used power to resist Social Change advocated for by Colin Kaepernick by releasing him from the playing in the NFL

1.      “US Police arrested over 10,000 protestors”(TheGuardian, 2020). US police attempted to stop the George Floyd protests in America by arresting over 10,000 people overnight. However they were unsuccessful as the protestors were able to achieve the Police Reform Bill

2.      When the Mayor of New York City De-Blasio put forth an iniative to have BlackLivesMatter painted on 5^th Avenue(a famous street in America), president Trump attempted to intervene on Twitter and request the police to stop this from happening but failed. “@NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive BlackLivesMatter sign on Fifth Avenue… Maybe our great police won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street”.(@realDonaldTrump twitter account, 01/07/2020)

-          The Police reform Bill - The Black Lives Matter movement was able to achieve reform that involved retraining of police that bans the “use of chokeholds and requires them to wear body cameras.”(BBCNews, 2020)

-          Breonna Law – Following the murder of Breonna Taylor by police, the Black Lives Matter movement and several NBA players began protesting for reform, “One thing for me is that Breonna Taylor’s killers are still allowed to roam around free.” – Paul George(BleacherReport, 2020). NBA player Paul George was campaigning for the BLM movements #JusticeforBreonna protest and were able to achieve Breonna’s Law in Louisville, which now prevents police the right to search houses without a warrant.

-          Successfully raised awareness - After police killed George FLoyd - "as many as 21 million adults had attended the Black Lives Matter protest"(CNN, 2020). These large protests were successful and they managed to achieve Social Change in the form of the Police Reform Bill introduced to parliament by the Democratic Party

Failures of the BLM Movement
- One of the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement was to achieve “Economic Change”(BlackLivesMatter.com, 2020). The movement failed to achieve this goal as seen in an article from TheGuardian, “whatever is projected for the national unemployment rate, we can expect to see something close to that for Black Americans.”(TheGuardian, 2020).
 - Colin Kaepernick is still without an NFL team due to taking a stance for African American rights, “Colin Kaepernick forced exile has lasted over 500 days.”(TheIntercept, 2018). BLM was unable to support Kaepernick.

The Hong Kong social movement Green Monday “launched its social movement to encourage as many people as possible to eat healthier Meat-free foods on Mondays.”(EcoWarrior.net, 2020)

The Alcoholics Anonymous movement seeks to help alcoholics transform their lives to give up their alcoholic addiction, members of the movement must be ready “to have God remove all defects of character”(12 steps to Alcoholics Anonymous). 

Iran changed from a Democratic Monarchy to a Religious State in 1979, “In 1979, a revolution brought massive change to Iran. The country became an Islamic republic.”(BBCNews, 2019)