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 Mohandas Gandhi and supporters Salt March on March 12, 1930. This was an act of non-violent direct action. |
Direct action occurs when a group of people take an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue. This can include nonviolent and less often violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action participants. Examples of direct action can include strikes, workplace occupations, sit-ins, tax resistance, graffiti, sabotage, hacktivism, property destruction, blockades, and other forms of community resistance. By contrast, electoral politics, diplomacy, negotiation, and arbitration are not usually described as direct action, as they are politically mediated. Non-violent actions are sometimes a form of civil disobedience, and may involve a degree of intentional law-breaking where persons place themselves in arrestable situations in order to make a political statement but other actions (such as strikes) may not violate criminal law. The aim is to either obstruct another political agent or political organization from performing some practice to which the activists object; or to solve perceived problems which traditional societal institutions (governments, powerful churches or establishment trade unions) are not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.
- Related: Active citizenship, Anarchism, Citizen journalism, Civil disobedience, Civil resistance, Direct democracy, Direct Action Day, Dual power, General strike, Independent Media Center, Nonviolence, Nonviolent resistance, Propaganda of the deed, Sabotage, Satyagraha, Security culture, Tax resistance, Tree sitting, Tree spiking, ADAPT, Anarchists Against the Wall, Animal Liberation Front, Camp for Climate Action, Campus Antiwar Network, Code Pink, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, Cypherpunk, Direct Action Committee, Direct Action to Stop the War, Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, Food Not Bombs, GetEQUAL, Greenpeace, Homes Not Jails, Landless Workers' Movement, Lesbian Avengers, MindFreedom International, National Bolshevik Party, No Border network, Not Dead Yet (group), Occupy Wall Street, Operation Save America, PETA, Plane Stupid, Reclaim the Streets, Rising Tide North America, School of the Americas Watch, Sons of Liberty, Squamish Five, Take Back the Land, Trident Ploughshares, UkUncut, WOMBLES, War Resisters' International, Vetëvendosje!
| DA! (Direct Action) Gallery DA! (Direct Action) Gallery www.dagallery.co.uk - Web |
| Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching theanarchistlibrary.org/.../Various_Authors__Ecodefense__A_Field_Guide_to_Monkeywrenching.html - Web |
| Direct Action News from Germany Direct Action News from Germany directactionde.ucrony.net/en/ - Web |
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| ACTivist Magazine ACTivist Magazine www.activistmagazine.com - Web |
| Civil Disobedience Manual from ACT-UP/NY Civil Disobedience Manual from ACT-UP/NY www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html - Web |
| ReclaimingQuarterly.org features photo-coverage of... ReclaimingQuarterly.org features photo-coverage of contemporary nonviolent direct actions www.reclaimingquarterly.org - Web |
| DirectAction.org offers online organizing resource... DirectAction.org offers online organizing resources www.directaction.org - Web |
| Greenpeace encourages its activists to use Non-Vio... Greenpeace encourages its activists to use Non-Violent Direct Action www.greenpeace.org.au/getactive/happen/nvda.html - Web |
| The Citizen's Handbook The Citizen's Handbook www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook - Web |
| Ruckus Ruckus ruckus.org - Web |
| The Boston Direct Action Project The Boston Direct Action Project bostondirectactionproject.blogspot.com - Web |
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| IWW Organizing Department IWW Organizing Department www.iww.org/organize - Web |
| libcom.org/organise libcom.org/organise libcom.org/organise - Web |
| War Resisters' International War Resisters' International wri-irg.org - Web |
| The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pix... The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_112/ai_79548469/pg_1 - Web |
| Video clips Video clips www.back-of-beyond.org/downloads/da/english.html - Web |
| A bi-lingual database on all known direct action n... A bi-lingual database on all known direct action news in Greece since September 2007 directactiongr.blogspot.com - Web |
| www.direct-action.de.vu www.direct-action.de.vu www.projektwerkstatt.de/da - Web |
