direct action

(noun)

A form of political activism, in which participants act directly, ignoring established political procedures. This is often (but not always) accomplished by means of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, demonstrations, vandalism, or graffiti.

Related Terms

Examples of direct action in the following topics:

  • Forms of Disagreement

    • Civil disobedience can often take the form of direct action, which occurs when a group of people take an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.
    • This can include nonviolent and less often violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action participants.
    • Direct action stands in opposition to a number of other forms of disagreement, like electoral politics, diplomacy, negotiation, and arbitration, which are not usually described as direct action, as they are politically mediated.
    • This was an act of non-violent direct action.
    • Analyze the role that civil disobedience and direct action play as political tactics representing dissent

  • Directed or "bonded" Ties in the graph

    • Indeed, most social processes involve sequences of directed actions.
    • For example, suppose that person A directs a comment to B, then B directs a comment back to A, and so on.
    • We may not know the order in which actions occurred (i.e. who started the conversation), or we may not care.
    • "Directed" graphs use the convention of connecting nodes or actors with arrows that have arrow heads, indicating who is directing the tie toward whom.
    • In a directed graph, Bob could choose Ted, and Ted choose Bob.

  • Boycotts

    • Union boycotts, or secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise .
    • The term "secondary action" is intended to be distinct from a trade dispute with a worker's direct employer, and so may be used to refer to a dispute with the employer's parent company, its suppliers, financiers, contracting parties, or any other employer in another industry.
    • In the U.S. and U.K., workers can typically strike against their direct employer only.
    • Secondary action is illegal in the United States.
    • Differentiate between a trade dispute with a worker's direct employer and "secondary action"

  • Direct Marketing

    • Direct marketing goes direct to customers via telephone, mail, fax, TV, radio, online, magazines, newspapers or face-to-face.
    • An advertisement calling consumers to action: "Just dial 800- 888-8888, place your order and receive your bonus gift!
    • The message is based upon a "call to action" delivered directly to predisposed consumers.
    • It distinguishes itself from mass marketing by virtue of the distance between the manufacturer and the ultimate end user, seeking to deliver a specific "call to action" to consumers.
    • There are many different direct marketing tools, including direct mail, telemarketing, couponing, direct response TV and radio, face-to-face selling, community campaigns, and grassroots campaigns.

  • References

    • Working as a learning coach team in action learning.
    • Transformative and self-directed learning in practice.
    • The self-directed learning of women with breast cancer.
    • Action learning circles: Action learning in theory and practice.
    • The emergence of action learning.

  • Directed ortho-Metalation

    • Among the most useful reactions for the synthesis of complex molecules are those that achieve direct selective functionalization of a hydrocarbon moiety.
    • The following equation illustrates this Directed ortho Metalation (DoM) reaction, where DMG refers to a directing metalation group and E+ is an electrophile.
    • Electrophilic iodination by the action of molecular iodine in the presence of sodium nitrate and acetic acid (a source of iodinium cation) gives a high yield of para-iodoanisole.
    • The second diagram above shows the iodination via directed ortho metalation of anisole will be shown.
    • Direct electrophilic substitution would normally occur at the meta position, so the action of the amide DMG is particularly noteworthy.

  • Introduction to Verbs: Tense, Aspect, and Mood

    • The simple aspect is used to express a single action, a repeated action, or a permanent state.
    • The perfect aspect is used to discuss completed actions.
    • Linking verbs take no direct objects.
    • Transitive verbs describe actions that are done to a specific thing, called the verb's direct object.
    • Direct object: her hair.)

  • Affirmative Action

    • Affirmative action is a subject of controversy.
    • Directed to all government contracting agencies, President John F.
    • This argument supports the idea of solely class-based affirmative action.
    • Other opponents of affirmative action call it reverse discrimination, saying affirmative action requires the very discrimination it is seeking to eliminate.
    • Some opponents believe, among other things, that affirmative action devalues the accomplishments of people who belong to a group it is supposed to help, therefore making affirmative action counter-productive.

  • Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action

    • However, supporters of affirmative action have encountered opposition.
    • This argument supports the idea of solely-class based affirmative action or the idea that affirmative action programs should be instituted based on social class rather than race .
    • Opponents of affirmative action have tried to disassemble affirmative action programs.
    • States such as California, Michigan, Washington, and Nebraska have held a referendums, turning the issue over to voters on a direct ballot measure.
    • Affirmative action programs have engendered lawsuits disputing their constitutionality.

  • Nerve Impulse Transmission within a Neuron: Action Potential

    • Transmission of a signal within a neuron (in one direction only, from dendrite to axon terminal) is carried out by the opening and closing of voltage-gated ion channels, which cause a brief reversal of the resting membrane potential to create an action potential .
    • The action potential travels down the neuron as Na+ channels open.
    • Action potentials are considered an "all-or nothing" event.
    • Action potential "jumps" from one node to the next in saltatory conduction.
    • Action potentials travel down the axon by jumping from one node to the next.