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    Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals...
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    Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down...
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  • Direct Action Network (DAN) was a North American confederation of anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian and anarchist affinity groups, collectives, and organizations...
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  • Direct action (DA) is a term used in the context of military special operations for small-scale raids, ambushes, acts of sabotage, and similar actions...
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  • up direct action in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Direct action is militant political action outside the usual political channels. Direct action may...
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  • Direct Action is a 2024 French–German documentary film directed by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell. Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy...
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    Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. DxE uses...
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  • Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari. The game was released in March 2005 and features...
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  • The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War or the Direct Action Committee (DAC) was a pacifist organisation formed "to assist the conducting of non-violent...
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  • International Workers' Association (IWA). In 1979, it reorganised into the Direct Action Movement (DAM), which participated in a number of industrial disputes...
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    of popular action: referendum (plebiscite), initiative, and recall. The first two forms—referendums and initiatives—are examples of direct legislation...
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    Action Directe (French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ diʁɛkt]; AD; lit. 'direct action') was a French far-left militant group that originated from the anti-Franco...
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  • Direct Action: An Ethnography is an ethnographic study of the global justice movement written by anthropologist David Graeber and published by AK Press...
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  • Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization known for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant...
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  • A direct-action lawsuit is brought directly against an insurance company for a wrong done by the insured. In a lawsuit that is not direct-action, a plaintiff...
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  • Direct electric action is a systems used in pipe organs to control the flow of air (wind) into the organ's pipes when the corresponding keys or pedals...
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  • Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) was an organization that coordinated nonviolent direct action-based opposition activities to the 2003 invasion of...
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  • Ability Action theory Direct action Enactivism Praxeology Social action Social relation Affectional action Instrumental action Traditional action Value-rational...
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  • Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers...
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  • The following is a partial list of direct action groups. Some groups known for their use of direct action include: ADAPT AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power...
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    Direct Action was an English-language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was published in tabloid format. The paper's first...
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  • Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla is a memoir by the Canadian anarchist Ann Hansen. It was published in 2001 simultaneously by the anarchist...
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    anti-whaling factions have received criticism and legal action for extreme methods including violent direct action. The term anti-whaling may also be used to describe...
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    Direct Action (Ukrainian: Пряма дія, romanized: Pryama diya) is an independent trade union in Ukraine that pulls together students of leftist views. The...
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  • A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) was founded in Philadelphia during the summer of 1966 to "apply nonviolent direct action as a witness against the war in Vietnam"...
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  • through their ability to take direct action: Revolutionary unionism asserts itself to be a supporter of the method of direct action, and aids and encourages...
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    An action figure is a poseable character model figure made most commonly of plastic, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, military...
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  • over 30 games for major platforms. They created a value label in 2005, Direct Action Games, to design and produce value titles for both PC and consoles....
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    Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses direct action tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. The group targets...
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    formal leadership structure and engages in direct actions aimed at opposing animal cruelty. These actions include removing animals from laboratories and...
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