THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION

(from The Methods of Nonviolent Action, Boston 1973)

1. Public speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public declarations
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions

1. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
2. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
3. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
4. Newspapers and journals
5. Records, radio, and television
6. Skywriting and earthwriting

1. Deputations
2. Mock awards
3. Group lobbying
4. Picketing
5. Mock elections

1. Displays of flags and symbolic colours
2. Wearing of symbols
3. Prayer and worship
4. Delivering symbolic objects
5. Protest disrobings
6. Destruction of own property
7. Symbolic lights
8. Displays of portraits
9. Paint as protest
10. New signs and names
11. Symbolic sounds
12. Symbolic reclamations
13. Rude gestures

1. "Haunting" officials
2. Taunting officials
3. Fraternization
4. Vigils

1. Humourous skits and pranks
2. Performances of plays and music
3. Singing

1. Marches
2. Parades
3. Religious processions
4. Pilgrimages
5. Motorcades

1. Political mourning
2. Mock funerals
3. Demonstrative funerals
4. Homage at burial places

1. Assemblies of protest or support
2. Protest meetings
3. Camouflaged meetings of protest
4. Teach-ins

1. Walk-outs
2. Silence
3. Renouncing honours
4. Turning one's back

1. Social boycott
2. Selective social boycott
3. Lysistratic nonaction
4. Excommunication
5. Interdict

1. Suspension of social and sports activities
2. Boycott of social affairs
3. Student strike
4. Social disobedience
5. Withdrawal from social institutions

1. Stay-at-home
2. Total personal noncooperation
3. "Flight" of workers
4. Sanctuary
5. Collective disappearance
6. Protest emigration (hijrat)

1. Consumers' boycott
2. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
3. Policy of austerity
4. Rent withholding
5. Refusal to rent
6. National consumers' boycott
7. International consumers' boycott

1. Workers' boycott
2. Producers' boycott

1. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott

1. Traders' boycott
2. Refusal to let or sell property
3. Lockout
4. Refusal of industrial assistance
5. Merchants' "general strike"

1. Withdrawal of bank deposits
2. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
3. Refusal to pay debts or interest
4. Severance of funds and credit
5. Revenue refusal
6. Refusal of a government's money

1. Domestic embargo
2. Blacklisting of traders
3. International sellers' embargo
4. International buyers' embargo
5. International trade embargo

1. Protest strike
2. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

1. Peasant strike
2. 100. Farm workers' strike

1. Refusal of impressed labour
2. Prisoners' strike
3. Craft strike
4. Professional strike

1. Establishment strike
2. Industry strike
3. Sympathy strike

1. Detailed strike
2. Bumper strike
3. Slowdown strike
4. Working-to-rule strike
5. Reporting "sick" (sick-in)
6. Strike by resignation
7. Limited strike
8. Selective strike

1. Generalised strike
2. General strike

1. Hartal
2. Economic shutdown

1. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
2. Refusal of public support
3. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

1. Boycott of legislative bodies
2. Boycott of elections
3. Boycott of government employment and positions
4. Boycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodies
5. Withdrawal from governmental educational institutions
6. Boycott of government-supported institutions
7. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
8. Removal of own signs and placemarks
9. Refusal to accept appointed officials
10. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

1. Reluctant and slow compliance
2. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
3. Popular nonobedience
4. Disguised disobedience
5. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
6. Sitdown
7. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
8. Hiding, escape, and false identities
9. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws

1. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
2. Blocking of lines of command and information
3. Stalling and obstruction
4. General administrative noncooperation
5. Judicial noncooperation
6. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
7. Mutiny

1. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
2. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

1. Changes in diplomatic and other representation
2. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
3. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
4. Severance of diplomatic relations
5. Withdrawal from international organisations
6. Refusal of membership in international bodies
7. Expulsion from international organisations

1. Self-exposure to the elements
2. The fast
3. a) Fast of moral pressure
4. b) Hunger strike
5. c) Satyagrahic fast
6. Reverse trial
7. Nonviolent harassment

1. Sit-in
2. Stand-in
3. Ride-in
4. Wade-in
5. Mill-in
6. Pray-in
7. Nonviolent raids
8. Nonviolent air raids
9. Nonviolent invasion
10. Nonviolent interjection
11. Nonviolent obstruction
12. Nonviolent occupation

1. Establishing new social patterns
2. Overloading of facilities
3. Stall-in
4. Speak-in
5. Guerrilla theatre
6. Alternative social institutions
7. Alternative communication system

1. Reverse strike
2. Stay-in strike
3. Nonviolent land seizure
4. Defiance of blockades
5. Politically motivated counterfeiting
6. Preclusive purchasing
7. Seizure of assets
8. Dumping
9. Selective patronage
10. Alternative markets
11. Alternative transportation systems
12. Alternative economic institutions

1. Overloading of administrative systems
2. Disclosing identities of secret agents
3. Seeking imprisonment
4. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
5. Work-on without collaboration
6. Dual sovereignty and parallel government

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