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"Airplanes, balloons, or other air transport may be used to enter the air space of an opponent, without use or threat of any violence or destruction, to bring leaflets, or perhaps food and other gifts, to the population. (Air missions bringing supplies to break blockades are classed separately.) At times such a raid and dropping of leaflets may have an important psychological impact. An example of this occurred in the closing phase of the Kapp Putsch. On Tuesday, March 16, an airplane of the German government, which had fled to Stuttgart, appeared over Berlin, held by the putschists, to drop a leaflet, “THE COLLAPSE OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.”"...

((Sharp, Gene. The Politics of Nonviolent Action (p. 405). Albert Einstein Institution. Kindle Edition.))

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001 public speeches

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003 declarations by organizations and institutions

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006 group or mass petitions

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038 marches

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007 slogans caricatures and symbols

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High scoring campaigns using this method

Historical cases from the Nonviolent Action Database that used this method

German citizens defend democracy against Kapp Putsch, 1920

10.0/10

In March 1920, Walther von Lüttwitz, a commanding general in the German army, and Wolfgang Kapp, a German provincial official (with the help of a few other German officials, such as Chief of Staff, General Hans von Seeckt and his collaborators in the...

Israelis call for Prime Minister Netanyahu's Resignation (Black Flags Protest), 2016-2021

10.0/10

In the summer of 2016, a small group of Israeli citizens began protesting at various traffic junctions throughout the country carrying signs calling for the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The citizens had several different ...

New Zealanders protest against Springbok rugby tour, 1981

6.0/10

Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was organized in New Zealand in 1969 to protest rugby tours to and from South Africa. Their first protest, in 1970, was intended to prevent the All Blacks, New Zealand’s flagship rugby squad, from playing in South Africa,...

Low scoring campaigns using this method

Historical cases from the Nonviolent Action Database that used this method

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Effectiveness profile

Success by Opponent
Government / State Body 8.0
Judiciary / Legal System 10.0

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Electoral democracy
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