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Protest and persuasion
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Formal statements
- Public speeches
- Letters of opposition or support
- Declarations by organizations and institutions
- Signed public statements
- Declarations of indictment and intention
- Group or mass petitions
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Communications with a wider audience
- Slogans, caricatures and symbols
- Banners, posters and displayed communications
- Leaflets, pamphlets and books
- Newspapers and journals
- Records, radio and television
- Skywriting and earthwriting
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Group representations
- Deputations
- Mock awards
- Group lobbying
- Picketing
- Mock elections
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Symbolic public acts
- Displays of flags and symbolic colors
- Wearing of symbols
- Prayer and worship
- Delivering symbolic objects
- Protest disrobings
- Destruction of own property
- Symbolic lights
- Displays of portraits
- Paint as protest
- New signs and names
- Symbolic sounds
- Symbolic reclamation
- Rude gestures
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Pressures on individuals
- "Haunting" officials
- Taunting officials
- Fraternization
- Vigils
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Drama and music
- Humorous skits and pranks
- Performances of plays and music
- Singing
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Processions
- Marches
- Parades
- Religious processions
- Pilgrimages
- Motorcades
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Honoring the dead
- Political mourning
- Mock funerals
- Demonstrative funerals
- Homage at burial places
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Public Assemblies
- Assemblies of protest or support
- Protest meetings
- Camouflaged meetings of protest
- Teach-ins
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Withdrawal and renunciation
- Walk-outs
- Silence
- Renouncing honors
- Turning one's back
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Social Noncooperation
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Ostracism
- Social boycott
- Selective social boycott
- Lysistratic nonaction
- Excommunication
- Interdict
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Noncooperation with social events, customs, and institutions
- Suspension of social and sports activities
- Boycott of social affairs
- Student strike
- Social disobedience
- Withdrawal from social institutions
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Withdrawal from the social system
- Stay-at-home
- Total personal noncooperation
- Flight of workers
- Sanctuary
- Collective disappearance
- Protest emigration
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Economic noncooperation: economic boycotts
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Action by consumers
- Consumers' boycott
- Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
- Policy of austerity
- Rent withholding
- Refusal to rent
- National consumers' boycott
- International consumers' boycott
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Action by workers and producers
- Worker's boycott
- Producers' boycott
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Action by middlemen
- Suppliers' and handlers' boycott
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Action by owners and management
- Traders' boycott
- Refusal to let or sell property
- Lockout
- Refusal of industrial assistance
- Merchants' general strike
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Action by holders of financial resources
- Withdrawal of bank deposits
- Refusal to pay fees, dues and assessments
- Refusal to pay debts or interest
- Severance of funds and credit
- Revenue refusal
- Refusal of a government's money
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Action by governments
- Domestic embargo
- Blacklisting of traders
- International sellers' embargo
- International buyers' embargo
- International trade embargo
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Economic noncooperation: strikes
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Symbolic strikes
- Protest strike
- Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
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Agricultural strikes
- Peasant strike
- Farm workers' strike
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Strikes by special groups
- Refusal of impressed labor
- Prisoners' strike
- Craft strike
- Professional strike
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Ordinary industrial strikes
- Establishment strike
- Industry strike
- Sympathetic strike
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Restricted strikes
- Detailed strike
- Bumper strike
- Slowdown strike
- Working-to-rule strike
- Reporting sick (sick-in)
- Strike by resignation
- Limited strike
- Selective strike
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Multi-industry strikes
- Generalized strike
- General strike
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Combination of strikes and economic closures
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Political noncooperation
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Rejection of authority
- Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
- Refusal of public support
- Literature and speeches advocating resistance
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Citizens' noncooperation with government
- Boycott of legislative bodies
- Boycott of elections
- Boycott of government employment and positions
- Boycott of government departments, agencies and other bodies
- Withdrawal from government educational institutions
- Boycott of government-supported organizations
- Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
- Removal of own signs and placemarks
- Refusal to accept appointed officials
- Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
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Citizens' alternatives to obedience
- Reluctant and slow compliance
- Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
- Popular nonobedience
- Disguised disobedience
- Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
- Sit-down
- Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
- Hiding, escape and false identities
- Civil disobedience of illegitimate laws
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Action by government personnel
- Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
- Blocking lines of command and information
- Stalling and obstruction
- General administrative noncooperation
- Judicial noncooperation
- Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
- Mutiny
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Domestic governmental action
- Quasi-legal evasions and delays
- Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
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International governmental action
- Changes in diplomatic and other representation
- Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
- Withholding of diplomatic recognition
- Severance of diplomatic relations
- Withdrawal from international organizations
- Refusal of membership in international bodies
- Expulsion from international organizations
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Nonviolent intervention
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Psychological intervention
- Self-exposure to the elements
- Fast of moral pressure
- Hunger strike
- Satyagrahic fast
- Reverse trial
- Nonviolent harassment
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Physical intervention
- Sit-in
- Stand-in
- Ride-in
- Wade-in
- Mill-in
- Pray-in
- Nonviolent raids
- Nonviolent air raids
- Nonviolent invasion
- Nonviolent interjection
- Nonviolent obstruction
- Nonviolent occupation
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Social intervention
- Establishing new social patterns
- Overloading of facilities
- Stall-in
- Speak-in
- Guerrilla theater
- Alternative social institutions
- Alternative communication system
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Economic intervention
- Reverse strike
- Stay-in strike
- Nonviolent land seizure
- Defiance of blockades
- Politically motivated counterfeiting
- Preclusive purchasing
- Seizure of assets
- Dumping
- Selective patronage
- Alternative markets
- Alternative transportation systems
- Alternative economic institutions
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Political intervention
- Overloading of administrative systems
- Disclosing identities of secret agents
- Seeking imprisonment
- Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
- Work-on without collaboration
- Dual sovereignty and parallel government
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