Direct Action
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. A general strike is an example of direct action. Direct action is a form of activism in which participants use economic power or political power to achieve their goals. Direct action aims to either obstruct a certain practice such as a government's laws or actions or to draw attention to and create a dialogue in order to solve perceived problems. Direct action may include activities that can be either violent or nonviolent, targeting people, groups, institutions, actions, or property that its participants deem objectionable.
. A general strike is an example of direct action. Direct action is a form of activism in which participants use economic power or political power to achieve their goals. Direct action aims to either obstruct a certain practice such as a government's laws or actions or to draw attention to and create a dialogue in order to solve perceived problems. Direct action may include activities that can be either violent or nonviolent, targeting people, groups, institutions, actions, or property that its participants deem objectionable.
Bibliography
Further reading
Epstein, Barbara. Political protest and cultural revolution: Nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s. Univ of California Press, 1991. Graeber, David. Direct action: An ethnography. AK press, 2009. Kauffman, Leslie Anne. Direct action: Protest and the reinvention of American radicalism. Verso Books, 2017. Hansen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001.
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