The phrase "alternative movements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to various social, political, or cultural movements that offer different approaches or solutions compared to mainstream options.
Example: "The rise of alternative movements has led to a greater awareness of environmental issues and social justice."
Alternatives: "alternative initiatives" or "nontraditional movements".
"It always had something to do with anti- and alternative movements.
The causes are well-documented, starting with the failure of alternative movements in those countries, chiefly secular Arab nationalism.
Without alternative movements with vision, appeal, and the ability to deliver change, existing organized extremist groups will fill the void.
"A teacher should ask if anyone has a knee, neck or lower back problem so that they can offer alternative movements," said Jill Satterfield, a certified yoga instructor.
Such is the nature of alternative movements that their adherents expend years and burn social and familial bridges to belong to them, yet recoil like the religiously orthodox when someone utters the name that must not be spoken.
It was then that Conceptual art, earthworks, on-site improvisation, certain modes of video and performance art, and sundry other "alternative" movements of the period won their place on the art scene.
An alternative movement has long pushed to reclaim the word "fat".
"There really was an alternative movement," said Ms. Moore of the New Museum.
Mercer might be happy recreating classic stories, but there is an alternative movement in ice dance, and it's gathering speed.
JC: In the anthology Conductors of Chaos, which you edited in 1996, you use a phrase about the poetry incorporating "a secret history" – meaning an alternative movement.
The members of the Orange Alternative movement incorporated absurdist elements into their protests — the most famous being images of those dwarfs — which they scattered across the city.
