Partnership for Change

The Following are methods of Non Violent Action. Partners of Change are encouraged to adopt any of these methods as individuals or as groups as part of their non violent action to achieve the Agenda of the Partnership for Change.

 

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION

 

Formal statements

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

Communications with a wider audience

7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earth writing

 

Group representations

13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections

 

Symbolic public acts

18. Display of flags and symbolic colors
19. Wearing of symbols
20. Prayer and worship
21. Delivering symbolic objects
22. Protest disrobings
23. Destruction of own property
24. Symbolic lights
25. Displays of portraits
26. Paint as protest
27. New signs and names
28. Symbolic sounds
29. Symbolic reclamations
30. Rude gestures

 

Pressures on individuals

31. "Haunting" officials
32. Taunting officials
33. Fraternization
34. Vigils

 

Drama and music

35. Humorous skits and pranks
36. Performance of plays and music
37. Singing

 

Processions

38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades

 

Honoring the dead

43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places

 

Public assemblies

47. Assemblies of protest or support
48. Protest meetings
49. Camouflaged meetings of protest
50. Teach-ins

 

Withdrawal and renunciation

51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honors
54. Turning one's back

 

THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION

 

Ostracism of persons

55. Social boycott
56. Selective social boycott
57. Lysistratic non action
58. Excommunication
59. Interdict

 

Noncooperation with social events, customs, and institutions

60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions

 

Withdrawal from the social system

65. Stay-at-home
66. Total personal non cooperation
67. Flight of workers
68. Sanctuary
69. Collective disappearance
70. Protest emigration (hijrat)

 

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION:

(1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS

 

Action by consumers

71. Consumers' boycott
72. Non consumption of boycotted goods
73. Policy of austerity
74. Rent withholding
75. Refusal to rent
76. National consumers' boycott
77. International consumers' boycott

 

Action by workers and producers

78. Workmen's boycott
79. Producers' boycott
Action by middlemen
80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott

 

Action by owners and management

81. Traders' boycott
82. Refusal to let or sell property
83. Lockout
84. Refusal of industrial assistance
85. Merchants' "general strike"

 

Action by holders of financial resources

86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government's money

 

Action by governments

92. Domestic embargo
93. Blacklisting of traders
94. International sellers' embargo
95. International buyers' embargo
96. International trade embargo

 

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION:

 

(2) THE STRIKE

 

Symbolic strikes

97. Protest strike
98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

 

Agricultural strikes

99. Peasant strike
100. Farm workers' strike

 

Strikes by special groups

101. Refusal of impressed labor
102. Prisoners' strike
103. Craft strike
104. Professional strike

 

Ordinary industrial strikes

105. Establishment strike
106. Industry strike
107. Sympathetic strike

 

Restricted strikes

108. Detailed strike
109. Bumper strike
110. Slowdown strike
111.Working -to- rule strike
112. Reporting "sick" (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
115. Selective strike

 

Multi-industry strikes

116. Generalized strike
117. General strike

 

Combinations of strikes and economic closures

118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown

 

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