DIRECT ACTION Definition & Meaning

direct action

any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.

direct action

action such as strikes or civil disobedience, employed by organized labour or other groups to obtain demands from an employer, government, etc

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First recorded in 1835–45

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And that means focusing on mutual aid and direct action, filling in these gaps that Trump has created.

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"Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage and prison reform."

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JSO is a UK-based environmental activist group that aims to end fossil fuel extraction and uses direct action to draw attention to its cause.

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"It was a really good, peaceful, direct action. It didn't affect anyone except myself."

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Palestine Action describes itself as a "direct action network dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid".

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