And who knows, if the movement is successful, Uggie may actually have some competition.
"If the movement is successful, they could spread the idea that the regime is evil," said Fatimah Haghighatjoo, a former reformist member of the Iranian Parliament who is now a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
She adds: "If your indicator of whether the movement is successful or not is whether or not white people are sympathetic to it, then I think you've missed the point".
To the extent that the movement is successful, it will minimize the need for "special education" (Biklen 1992; Gartner and Lipsky 2002; Lipsky and Gartner 1996).
One reason for the significant increase in the number of abolitionist states was that the abolition movement was successful in making capital punishment an international human rights issue, whereas formerly it had been regarded as solely an internal matter for the countries concerned.
"Even before the Greens were founded in 1980, the environmental movement was successful not only in mobilizing long haired, radical and tree-hugging factions of opposition-minded people.
The truth, however, is that the Civil Rights Movement was successful because of the very means of protest and vocal displeasure that are so often looked down upon today.
On issues where the harm is discernable and logical responses are readily available, public anger can drive change.When it comes to climate change, however, Mr Busby is rightly sceptical of the angry approach: "Even if this movement were successful, it might get attached to policies that ultimately prove unworkable.
