031 haunting officials
"As a means of reminding officials of the “immorality” of their behavior in repressing a nonviolent resistance movement and of the determination and fearlessness of the population, volunteers may sometimes follow and “haunt” officials everywhere they go, thus constantly reminding them of the population’s determination. For example, as Joan Bondurant has reported, during the 1928 Bardoli campaign in India: “Volunteers followed officials everywhere, camping on roads outside official bungalows. When arrested, they were replaced by others until authorities tired of the process.” 148"...
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Bardoli peasants campaign against the Government of Bombay, 1928
The Bombay Government (through its Revenue Department) had, in 1927, enhanced the land revenue assessment in the Bardoli taluka (county) by a nominal 22 percent, which, when applied, amounted in some cases to as much as 60 percent enhancement. This t...
English residents and environmentalists prevent Heathrow Airport expansion, 2002 – 2010
The London Heathrow Airport was of the busiest airports in the world when the English government began to contemplate expansion in 2002. Considered to be one of the premier airports in the world, the English government wanted to preserve the airport’...
Lawrence, MA factory workers strike "for Bread and Roses," U.S. 1912
As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women's children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! - James Opp...
Serbians overthrow Milosevic (Bulldozer Revolution), 2000
During his first seven years as president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic led the country into several wars with Croatia and Bosnia and isolated it internationally. While he spent money on the country’s secret police and military, unemployment reached ...
Disabled activists sit in for enforcement of U.S. disability rights legislation, 1977
In 1973, American president Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act into law after vetoing its first two iterations. The legislation was concerned with funding vocational rehabilitation, services meant to help disabled individuals find employment...
Harvard students campaign for a living wage, 1998-2002
In the fall of 1998, Harvard students began a Living Wage Campaign that would last for almost four years. The Campaign was headed by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed to help all Harvard employees receive a “living wage”. The de...
International environmental group Sea Shepherds defends whales in the Antarctic Ocean, 2012-2013
The International Whaling Commission permits whaling for research purposes and allows whales to be discarded by lethal means as long as whale meat is not used and sold from the specimens. Japanese whalers, who are permitted to whale strictly for rese...
PETA pressures Avon to stop animal testing, United States, 1989
The animal rights movement of the 1980’s moved into the mainstream media as it was joined by professionals and academics. The new public attention increased demand from concerned consumers for products developed without animal testing, and companies ...
University of Arizona students campaign against sweatshop-produced apparel, 1997-1999
The anti-sweatshop movement was the largest student activism movement in the United States since the South African divestment movement over ten years before. Students all around the country pressured college and university administrators to adopt str...
Chinese villagers occupy and close Zhuxi Chemical Park, Dongyang County, Zhejiang, 2001-2005
The town of Huashui, in Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province lies in eastern China. The town is known for plastic recycling, and is divided into 18 “administrative villages” that then have “natural villages” within them. Dongyang County opened the Zhux...
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MIT students campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa, 1985-1991
In reaction to the continuing apartheid in South Africa, many colleges and universities in the United States divested from South Africa, meaning that they removed the holdings they had from companies which operated there. Apartheid separated blacks a...
Washington, DC protests against the war in Vietnam (Mayday), 1971
The Mayday protest was a series of large-scale demonstrations against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. It happened in 1971 in Washington, DC from May 1 to May 3 and diminished within several days. The goal was to shut down the...