Direct Action

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Political concept
gptkbp:contrastsWith Indirect action
gptkbp:defines A form of political activism which seeks immediate or direct results through protest, demonstration, or intervention, rather than through indirect methods such as negotiation or legislation.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Direct Action
gptkbp:includes gptkb:Sabotage
gptkb:Sit-ins
Strikes
Blockades
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Occupy_Wall_Street
gptkb:Greenpeace_direct_actions
gptkb:The_1912_Lawrence_textile_strike
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Direct_Action:_An_Ethnography_by_David_Graeber
gptkb:Direct_Action_(journal)
Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism by L.A. Kauffman
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Civil_disobedience
protest
Nonviolent resistance
Activism
gptkbp:usedBy Anarchist movements
Environmental activists
Labor movements
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Voltairine_de_Cleyre
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5