author Angelo Gladding
name 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
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"Mock elections" $ ), $ "Symbolic Public Acts": ( $ "Displays of flags and symbolic colours", $ "Wearing of symbols", $ "Prayer and worship", $ "Delivering symbolic objects", $ "Protest disrobings", $ "Destruction of own property", $ "Symbolic lights", $ "Displays of portraits", $ "Paint as protest", $ "New signs and names", $ "Symbolic sounds", $ "Symbolic reclamations", $ "Rude gestures" $ ), $ "Pressures on Individuals": ( $ '"Haunting" officials', $ "Taunting officials", $ "Fraternization", $ "Vigils" $ ), $ "Drama and Music": ( $ "Humourous skits and pranks", $ "Performances of plays and music", $ "Singing" $ ), $ "Processions": ( $ "Marches", $ "Parades", $ "Religious processions", $ "Pilgrimages", $ "Motorcades" $ ), $ "Honouring the Dead": ( $ "Political mourning", $ "Mock funerals", $ "Demonstrative funerals", $ "Homage at burial places" $ ), $ "Public Assemblies": ( $ "Assemblies of protest or support", $ "Protest meetings", $ "Camouflaged meetings of protest", $ "Teach-ins" $ ), $ "Withdrawal and Renunciation": ( $ "Walk-outs", $ "Silence", $ "Renouncing honours", $ "Turning one's back" $ ) $ }, $ "Social Noncooperation": { $ "Ostracism of Persons": ( $ "Social boycott", $ "Selective social boycott", $ "Lysistratic nonaction", $ "Excommunication", $ "Interdict" $ ), $ "Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs and Institutions": ( $ "Suspension of social and sports activities", $ "Boycott of social affairs", $ "Student strike", $ "Social disobedience", $ "Withdrawal from social institutions" $ ), $ "Withdrawal from the Social System": ( $ "Stay-at-home", $ "Total personal noncooperation", $ '"Flight" of workers', $ "Sanctuary", $ "Collective disappearance", $ "Protest emigration (hijrat)" $ ) $ }, $ "Economic Noncooperation: Economic Boycotts": { $ "Action by Consumers": ( $ "Consumers' boycott", $ "Nonconsumption of boycotted goods", $ "Policy of austerity", $ "Rent withholding", $ "Refusal to rent", $ "National consumers' boycott", $ "International consumers' boycott", $ ), $ "Action by Workers and Producers": ( $ "Workers' boycott", $ "Producers' boycott" $ ), $ "Action by Middlemen": ( $ "Suppliers' and handlers' boycott", $ ), $ "Action by Owners and Management": ( $ "Traders' boycott", $ "Refusal to let or sell property", $ "Lockout", $ "Refusal of industrial assistance", $ '''Merchants' "general strike"''' $ ), $ "Action by Holders of Financial Resources": ( $ "Withdrawal of bank deposits", $ "Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments", $ "Refusal to pay debts or interest", $ "Severance of funds and credit", $ "Revenue refusal", $ "Refusal of a government's money" $ ), $ "Action by Governments": ( $ "Domestic embargo", $ "Blacklisting of traders", $ "International sellers' embargo", $ "International buyers' embargo", $ "International trade embargo" $ ) $ }, $ "Economic Noncooperation: The Strike": { $ "Symbolic Strikes": ( $ "Protest strike", $ "Quickie walkout (lightning strike)" $ ), $ "Agricultural Strikes": ( $ "Peasant strike", $ "Farm workers' strike" $ ), $ "Strikes by Special Groups": ( $ "Refusal of impressed labour", $ "Prisoners' strike", $ "Craft strike", $ "Professional strike" $ ), $ "Ordinary Industrial Strikes": ( $ "Establishment strike", $ "Industry strike", $ "Sympathy strike" $ ), $ "Restricted Strikes": ( $ "Detailed strike", $ "Bumper strike", $ "Slowdown strike", $ "Working-to-rule strike", $ 'Reporting "sick" (sick-in)', $ "Strike by resignation", $ "Limited strike", $ "Selective strike" $ ), $ "Multi-Industry Strikes": ( $ "Generalised strike", $ "General strike" $ ), $ "Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures": ( $ "Hartal", $ "Economic shutdown" $ ) $ }, $ "Political Noncooperation": { $ "Rejection of Authority": ( $ "Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance", $ "Refusal of public support", $ "Literature and speeches advocating resistance" $ ), $ "Citizens' Noncooperation with Government": ( $ "Boycott of legislative bodies", $ "Boycott of elections", $ "Boycott of government employment and positions", $ "Boycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodies", $ "Withdrawal from governmental educational institutions", $ "Boycott of government-supported institutions", $ "Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents", $ "Removal of own signs and placemarks", $ "Refusal to accept appointed officials", $ "Refusal to dissolve existing institutions" $ ), $ "Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience": ( $ "Reluctant and slow compliance", $ "Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision", $ "Popular nonobedience", $ "Disguised disobedience", $ "Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse", $ "Sitdown", $ "Noncooperation with conscription and deportation", $ "Hiding, escape, and false identities", $ 'Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws' $ ), $ "Action by Government Personnel": ( $ "Selective refusal of assistance by government aides", $ "Blocking of lines of command and information", $ "Stalling and obstruction", $ "General administrative noncooperation", $ "Judicial noncooperation", $ "Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents", $ "Mutiny" $ ), $ "Domestic Governmental Action": ( $ "Quasi-legal evasions and delays", $ "Noncooperation by constituent governmental units" $ ), $ "International Governmental Action": ( $ "Changes in diplomatic and other representation", $ "Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events", $ "Withholding of diplomatic recognition", $ "Severance of diplomatic relations", $ "Withdrawal from international organisations", $ "Refusal of membership in international bodies", $ "Expulsion from international organisations" $ ) $ }, $ "Nonviolent Intervention": { $ "Psychological Intervention": ( $ "Self-exposure to the elements", $ ("The fast", ( $ "Fast of moral pressure", $ "Hunger strike", $ "Satyagrahic fast" $ )), $ "Reverse trial", $ "Nonviolent harassment" $ ), $ "Physical Intervention": ( $ "Sit-in", $ "Stand-in", $ "Ride-in", $ "Wade-in", $ "Mill-in", $ "Pray-in", $ "Nonviolent raids", $ "Nonviolent air raids", $ "Nonviolent invasion", $ "Nonviolent interjection", $ "Nonviolent obstruction", $ "Nonviolent occupation" $ ), $ "Social Intervention": ( $ "Establishing new social patterns", $ "Overloading of facilities", $ "Stall-in", $ "Speak-in", $ "Guerrilla theatre", $ "Alternative social institutions", $ "Alternative communication system" $ ), $ "Economic Intervention": ( $ "Reverse strike", $ "Stay-in strike", $ "Nonviolent land seizure", $ "Defiance of blockades", $ "Politically motivated counterfeiting", $ "Preclusive purchasing", $ "Seizure of assets", $ "Dumping", $ "Selective patronage", $ "Alternative markets", $ "Alternative transportation systems", $ "Alternative economic institutions" $ ), $ "Political Intervention": ( $ "Overloading of administrative systems", $ "Disclosing identities of secret agents", $ "Seeking imprisonment", $ 'Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws', $ "Work-on without collaboration", $ "Dual sovereignty and parallel government" $ ) $ } $ } --- - [Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion](#the-methods-of-nonviolent-protest-and-persuasion) - Noncooperation - [Social](#the-methods-of-social-noncooperation) - Economic - [Boycott](#the-methods-of-economic-noncooperation:-economic-boycotts) - [Strike](#the-methods-of-economic-noncooperation:-the-strike) - [Political](#the-methods-of-political-noncooperation) - [Nonviolent Intervention](#the-methods-of-nonviolent-intervention) $# $def render_subtypes(method_subtypes): $# <ul style=font-size:.8em> $# $for method_subtype, methods in method_subtypes.items(): $# <li>[$method_subtype](#$method_subtype.lower().replace(" ", "-"))</li> $# </ul> $# <ul> $# $for method_type, method_subtypes in method_types.items(): $# <li>[$method_type](#the-methods-of-$method_type.lower().replace(" ", "-")) $# $# $:render_subtypes(method_subtypes) $# </li> $# </ul> --- $ n = 1 $for method_type, method_subtypes in method_types.items(): $ id = f'the-methods-of-{method_type.lower().replace(" ", "-")}' <h2 id=$id>The Methods of $method_type [#](#$id)</h2> $for method_subtype, methods in method_subtypes.items(): $ id = method_subtype.lower().replace(" ", "-") <h3 id=$id>$method_subtype [#](#$id)</h3> <ol start=$n> $for method in methods: <li>\ $if isinstance(method, str): $method\ $else: $method[0] <ol style=list-style-type:lower-alpha> $for method_subsubtype in method[1]: <li>$method_subsubtype</li> </ol> </li> $ n = n + 1 </ol> |