OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 43262

direct action

Meanings (ES + gloss)
acción directa
A form of political activism in which participants act directly, ignoring established political procedures. It may take the form of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, demonstrations, vandalism or graffiti.
It should be easy enough to see why anarchists have always been drawn to direct action.
Or there are those who believe that in general the wisest way for people to get what they want is by the indirect method of voting into power some one who will make what they want…
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