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3 de mar. de 2023 · Direct action is doing something that helps us achieve our goals without handing power to someone else (for example, the government). Direct action interrupts business-as-usual, seizes leadership, and introduces an alternative narrative.
12 de jun. de 2018 · Taking non-violent direct action is an important part of how Greenpeace achieves change. From climbing a power station to performing a concert in a museum, direct action can take many forms! Here are six actions to give a flavour of what they can look like.
Examples of violent direct action may include rioting, lynching, terrorism, political assassination, freeing political prisoners, interfering with police actions, and armed insurrection. [citation needed] Insurrectionary anarchism, a militant variant of anarchist ideology, primarily deals with direct action against governments.
There are many forms of direct action available to use in a nonviolent campaign, including methods of protest (rallies, marches), persuasion (speaking out on social media), noncooperation (boycotts, taking a knee) and intervention (parallel schools, sit-ins).
Examples of direct action are strikes, boycotts, sabotage, blockades, tree-sits, Black Bloc, obtaining secret footage, lock-on’s and riots or a combination of methods like a planned march + lock-on etc. Direct action can have nonviolent and/or violent elements.
Tactics such as blockades, strikes, pickets, occupations, or property damage are examples of direct action. However, other examples don’t involve protest. For example, mutual aid, where people organise themselves to directly meet needs that are not being met by the state or those with power.
5 de jun. de 2023 · Disruptive protest has become an increasingly frequent and contested aspect of political life in many countries around the world. On the one hand, movements like Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion (XR) or anti-extractivist protestors show that ‘collective actions of civil disobedience appear to be increasingly normal aspects of political life’ (Hayes and Ollitrault, 2019, p ...
