Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals...
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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down...
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up direct action in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Direct action is militant political action outside the usual political channels. Direct action may...
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Direct Action Network (DAN) was a North American confederation of anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian and anarchist affinity groups, collectives, and organizations...
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Direct action (DA) is a term used in the context of military special operations for small-scale raids, ambushes, acts of sabotage, and similar actions...
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Action Directe (French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ diʁɛkt]; AD; lit. 'direct action') was a French far-left militant organization that originated from the anti-Franco...
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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. DxE uses...
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Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari. The game was released in March 2005 and features...
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Direct Action is a 2024 French–German documentary film directed by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell. Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy...
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Direct Action: An Ethnography is an ethnographic study of the global justice movement written by anthropologist David Graeber and published by AK Press...
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of popular action: referendum (plebiscite), initiative, and recall. The first two forms—referendums and initiatives—are examples of direct legislation...
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The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War or the Direct Action Committee (DAC) was a pacifist organisation formed "to assist the conducting of non-violent...
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A direct-action lawsuit is brought directly against an insurance company for a wrong done by the insured. In a lawsuit that is not direct-action, a plaintiff...
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Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) was an organization that coordinated nonviolent direct action-based opposition activities to the 2003 invasion of...
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The Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) is a disability rights activist organisation in England and Wales that campaigned for civil rights with...
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The following is a partial list of direct action groups. Some groups known for their use of direct action include: ADAPT AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power...
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Ability Action theory Direct action Enactivism Praxeology Social action Social relation Affectional action Instrumental action Traditional action Value-rational...
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Direct Action was an English-language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was published in tabloid format. The paper's first...
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Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses direct action tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. The group targets...
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Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers...
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Solidarity Federation (redirect from Direct Action Movement)
International Workers' Association (IWA). In 1979, it reorganised into the Direct Action Movement (DAM), which participated in a number of industrial disputes...
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Ann Hansen (section Direct Action)
Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization known for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant...
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Direct electric action is a systems used in pipe organs to control the flow of air (wind) into the organ's pipes when the corresponding keys or pedals...
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Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the...
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IWA–AIT (redirect from Direct action (Slovakia))
through their ability to take direct action: Revolutionary unionism asserts itself to be a supporter of the method of direct action, and aids and encourages...
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The following is a list of the various action figures that have been released by DC Direct (formerly known as DC Collectibles between 2012 and 2020)....
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Protest (redirect from Protest action)
influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to enact desired changes themselves. When protests are...
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Direct Action (Ukrainian: Пряма дія, romanized: Pryama diya) is an independent trade union in Ukraine that pulls together students of leftist views. The...
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Zombie Studios (redirect from Direct Action Games)
over 30 games for major platforms. They created a value label in 2005, Direct Action Games, to design and produce value titles for both PC and consoles....
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April Carter (redirect from Direct Action and Democracy Today)
Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming Secretary of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War in May 1958 (just after it had organised...
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