Since the overwhelming majority of Americans live in delusional disregard for the real threats to their children, they need to be awakened. To the sexually repressed, sex education is obscene. One million children dying of AIDS is not. THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION THAT WAKE PEOPLE UP
100 million children will die of AIDS, and the Bohemian Grove Death cult wants you to raise your children in sexual ignorance. Why?
(from Gene Sharp, The Methods of Nonviolent Action, Boston 1973)
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION
FORMAL STATEMENTS
- Public speeches
- Letters of opposition or support
- Declarations by organizations and institutions
- Signed public declarations
- Declarations of indictment and intention
- Group or mass petitions
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE
- Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
- Banners, posters, and displayed communications
- Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
- Newspapers and journals
- Records, radio, and television
- Skywriting and earthwriting
GROUP REPRESENTATIONS
- Deputations
- Mock awards
- Group lobbying
- Picketing
- 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
THE METHODS OF 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)
THE METHODS OF 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
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOOPERATION: THE STRIKE
SYMBOLIC STRIKES
- Protest strike
- Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
AGRICULTURAL STRIKES
- Peasant strike
- 100. 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
THE METHODS OF 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
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
- Self-exposure to the elements
- The fast
- a) Fast of moral pressure
- b) Hunger strike
- c) 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
Link to the Albert Einstein Institution for more of Gene Sharp's work
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