Stay-at-Home
One of the more novel and effective forms of social protest, pioneered during the South African civil rights struggle and Eastern Europe’s resistance to communism in the 1950s, is the “stay-at-home.”...
View ArticleTotal Personal Noncooperation
Total personal noncooperation is a form of non violent protest designed to make the point that the imprisonment of a protestor is unjustified on moral or political grounds. In order to complete this...
View Article“Flight” of Workers
Through the centuries, there have been many times that groups of people used flight and cessation of work by leaving their jobs, their homes, or their countries, to demonstrate to the opponent, the...
View ArticleSanctuary
Sanctuary is a means of nonviolent protest through social noncooperation. An individual or a group of people withdraw from society and seek refuge in a place where the opposition cannot go without...
View ArticleCollective Disappearance
One form of social withdrawal that has been used to avoid participating in a practice that is considered repugnant is to simply disappear. Amazingly, this act has been orchestrated not only by...
View ArticleProtest Emigration (Hijrat)
Protest emigration, also called hijrat, is the intentional emigration from an area usually a country or particular government that is charged with some specific unfairness, cruelty, or other form of...
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