In 1971, a small group of activists sailed out of Vancouver in a leaky fishing boat to "bear witness" to U.S. nuclear testing in the northerly Aleutian Islands. This reflects which stage of a social movement?
A) Emergence
B) Coalescence
C) Bureaucratization
D) Decline

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The fact that a small group of activists sailed out of Vancouver in a leaky fishing boat to "bear witness" to U.S. nuclear testing in the northerly Aleutian Islands suggests that they were in the early stages of a social movement, known as the emergence stage, where people are beginning to become aware of and organize around a particular issue or cause.

In 1971, a Small Group of Activists Sailed Out of Vancouver