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The 40 pages that link to Direct action, each with the reason it gives.
Martin Luther King Jr.Related: Boycotts, marches, and sit-ins created pressure when negotiations stalled.
Black Lives MatterRelated: Marches, demonstrations, and other public disruptions have been central movement tactics.
Anarcho-syndicalismRelated: Strikes, occupations, and sabotage express the movement’s preference for workers’ own action.
Women’s liberation movementRelated: Protests and public interventions pressured institutions to respond to feminist demands.
Industrial Workers of the WorldRelated: IWW organizers used strikes, boycotts, and workplace pressure to win demands.
ACT UPNarrower topic: ACT UP used confrontational public actions to force AIDS policy and treatment into view.
Propaganda of the deedNarrower topic: It is the broader strategy of acting directly that this tactic turns into a public message.
Gay liberationNarrower topic: Demonstrations and disruptions let gay activists confront institutions directly.
Anti-globalization movementRelated: Blockades and demonstrations made trade negotiations visible and harder to ignore.
Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceRelated: Its campaigns used boycotts, marches, and demonstrations to challenge segregation.
SyndicalismRelated: Syndicalists use strikes, boycotts, and sabotage to exert workers’ power without relying on parliamentary change.
Occupy Wall StreetNarrower topic: Occupations, marches, and blockades placed direct action at the center of the movement’s strategy.
Racial upliftCompared with: Direct action sought to confront discriminatory institutions rather than rely chiefly on exemplary achievement.
Anti-fascismRelated: Some anti-fascist groups use disruption and community defense as immediate responses to organizing.
Confederación Nacional del TrabajoRelated: Strikes and workplace pressure were central methods in the CNT's organizing repertoire.
CraftivismCompared with: Direct action prioritizes intervention, while craftivism often works through symbolic objects and sustained making.
The BlastRelated: The paper argued within anarchist debates over tactics and workers’ self-organization.
Collectivist anarchismRelated: Anarchist movements used it to challenge state and capitalist institutions directly.
Errico MalatestaRelated: Strikes, demonstrations, and collective resistance matched Malatesta’s emphasis on people acting for themselves.
Anarcha-feminismRelated: It offers a way to pursue change without placing authority in state institutions.
Funmilayo Ransome-KutiNarrower topic: The women used demonstrations, boycotts, and public pressure to force political concessions.
Sylvia PankhurstRelated: Militant suffrage tactics shaped her early activism, though she later rejected some WSPU methods.
David GraeberRelated: Graeber saw direct action as a way to enact alternative social relations.
Lucy ParsonsRelated: Parsons advocated militant worker action rather than relying solely on electoral reform.
Insurrectionary anarchismRelated: It turns opposition to state and capital into immediate practice.
Voltairine de CleyreRelated: De Cleyre defended direct action as a means of resisting coercion and exercising self-determination.
Anarcho-pacifismRelated: Nonviolent direct action lets anarcho-pacifists challenge authority without relying on state channels.
Green anarchismRelated: Green anarchists use direct action to confront projects and institutions they see as ecologically destructive.
Luigi GalleaniRelated: It describes the extra-parliamentary tactics Galleani favored for labor and revolutionary aims.
Rudi DutschkeRelated: Student protests gave Dutschke’s calls for opposition a visible, disruptive form.
Alter-globalizationRelated: Blockades and other direct actions made trade institutions’ meetings sites of public contestation.
Anarchism without adjectivesRelated: It is a shared tactic that can unite anarchists whose preferred social models differ.
Ingrid NewkirkRelated: PETA uses public interventions and campaigns to pressure institutions over animal treatment.
Kōtoku ShūsuiRelated: Kōtoku increasingly favored revolutionary action over parliamentary reform.
Queer anarchismRelated: It lets communities contest oppressive norms without waiting for institutional permission.
Bill HaywoodRelated: Haywood backed strikes and other workplace actions as sources of workers’ power.
GreensboroRelated: Taking seats at the counter challenged segregation where it was enforced.
LGBTQ movementsRelated: Protests, disruptions, and boycotts have forced LGBTQ issues into public debate.
Post-left anarchyRelated: It fits post-left emphasis on immediate self-directed activity over party or institutional mediation.
Viennese ActionismRelated: The artists sought confrontation through enacted events, not merely images depicting dissent.