Last year, I reported on the Occupy movement, spending a few nights at the Occupy London camp outside St Paul's.
Maisha, the girl who inspired this movement, spent several years training Algebra Project teachers after graduating from Harvard.
Dard Hunter, an Ohio-born acolyte of the Arts and Crafts movement, spent much of the first half of the 20th century proselytizing on behalf of meticulously handcrafted papers.
Damien Hirst and other figures in the Young British Artists movement spent time in Berlin in the post-unity party atmosphere of the 1990s and still exhibit there.
Their survival seems to depend on constant movement, spending each second of the daylight hours in a relentless search of every nook and cranny.
Lou Ann Cataneo of New York, a self-described "poster child for the welfare-to-work movement," spent a decade living on welfare, using drugs and running from a violent boyfriend.
It's their relationship that drives the action again as Angelou becomes involved in the civil rights movement, spending time with James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, as well as operating on the front lines of protest despite the dangers.
It is also where Ettore Sottsass, the renowned Italian designer and architect and a founder of the 1980s Memphis Group movement, spent part of the years before he died in 2007 at age 90.
Mr. Hitchens, a British Trotskyite who had lost faith in the Socialist movement, spent much of his life wandering the globe and reporting on the world's trouble spots for The Nation magazine, the British newsmagazine The New Statesman and other publications.
In a community center in another part of the city, about 70 Cuban exiles who belong to a group called the Democracy Movement spent most of the week planning a flotilla of boats and airplanes for a prayer ceremony outside coastal waters off Havana.
