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Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
A nonviolent revolution is a revolution conducted primarily by unarmed civilians using tactics of civil resistance, including various forms of nonviolent protest, to bring about the departure of governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian without the use or threat of violence. [1]
Civil resistance is a form of political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime. [1]
The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement. [2] African-American college students attending historically Black colleges and universities in the United States powered the sit-in movement across the country.
New York police officials believe Fithian could be one of the people responsible for training the protesters in the tactics they used to occupy Hamilton Hall, according to two senior city officials.
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. ISBN 978-1-78478-409-6
From March 26 to 28, 1958, the NCLC held the first of many workshops on using nonviolent tactics to challenge segregation. [8] [11] These workshops were led by James Lawson, who had studied the principles of nonviolent resistance while working as a missionary in India.
In reference to noncampers at the April 24 protest, Texas ACLU attorney Brian Klosterboer told the Statesman that arrests of nonviolent individuals engaging in free speech activities are not ...