direct action

Other forms: direct actions

Definitions of direct action

1. noun

   a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
   types:

   civil disobedience

   a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)

   job action

   a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands

   nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance

   peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

   recusancy

   refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England

   sit-in

   a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move

   protest march

   occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license

   go-slow

   a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers

   work to rule

   a job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplace

   hunger strike

   a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

   Satyagraha

   the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms

   strike, work stoppage

   a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

   type of:

   dissent, objection, protest

   the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent