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Non-violent resistance is the practice of achieving social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods, while being nonviolent. | Non-violent resistance is the practice of achieving social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods, while being nonviolent. | ||
“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue” — Martin Luther King Jr. | “Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue” — Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
=====10 Essential Things to Know about Nonviolent Resistance===== | |||
[https://sandbroo.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/10-essential-things-nonviolent-resistance/ by Richard Sandbrook – PROGRESSIVE FUTURES BLOG] | |||
Unarmed civilians employ coordinated and unconventional methods to deter or defend against usurpers and foreign aggressors or to overturn injustices, though without causing or threatening bodily harm to their opponents. Examples of nonviolent methods include demonstrations, protests, strikes, stay-at-homes, boycotts, street theatre, derision of authorities, rebellious graffiti and other communications, shunning of collaborators, building alternative institutions, and many more. | |||
