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di·rect ac·tion
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direct actionnoun
a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
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We plan to do everything in our power to stop ConocoPhillips from doing construction in Nuiqsut this winter, we are going to continue to fight this by legal means, by direct action.
I've never heard of anything so crazy, i mean, the concept in a post-9/11 world of having sworn law enforcement officers unarmed at an airport, not being able to take direct action -- I don't know what they are thinking.
To the extent that you can’t deter through direct action, you can get some of these facilitators on notice.
We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law, we therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis.
So, I do think that opportunity to engage in this one tool of, not just direct action but also mass non-violent action as a means of change which we know is pretty effective — the window for doing something in that vein is getting shorter.
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- acción directaSpanish
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