Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT)Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) plays a vital role in analyzing how social movements mobilize and deploy resources to achieve their goals. The theory aims to provide a framework for analyzing how social movements are able to overcome prevailing patterns of resource inequality in their efforts to pursue social change (Edwards and McCarthy: 118). This theory has been used to analyze several social movements in history. Edwards (2007) writes that resource mobilization theory can be used to describe how social movements transform spectators into adherents and subsequently transform adherents into constituents. In this case, adherents are individuals who share the social movement organization's vision of social change. Voters, on the other hand, are those who contribute resources of various types to help the movement mobilize. Bystanders are those watching from the sidelines. This theory has attracted many contributions from diverse scholars such as Jo Freeman, Charles Tilly, John McCarthy, Mayer Zald and Bob Edwards among many others. For the sake of this article, Bob Edwards and John McCarthy's framework, documented in their work “Resources and Social Movement Mobilization (2004)” will be used. Their framework includes an analysis of resource inequality across social movements, resource redistribution, resource typologies, key resource attributes, resource sources, and finally resource mobilization processes. Resource Inequality The first aspect of their framework involves resource inequality where they argue that social movements have unequal access to resources. They hypothesize three reasons why this happens. They are due to spatial variations, historical variations and… halfway through the paper… to determine whether an OMU depends on the beneficiaries or the constituents of consciousness, or between internal and external sources. Raising activism is also a key activity in the mobilization process. There are two types of mobilization: consensus mobilization and action mobilization. Consensus mobilization refers to the process of transforming bystanders and opponents into adherents while action mobilization refers to the process of transforming voters into all types of adherents. The final strategy used by SMOs to mobilize resources is through the use of collaborative actions. This happens when organizing events that aim to attract more resources for the SMO, aggregating the human and financial resources available to the SMO. Examples of such events include popular runs and walks where participants contribute money and generate greater commitment to a cause.