Legal & Direct Action

Question 1

What is legal action

Answer 1

• Striving for change through legal means

Includes：
- Making case logically
- Changing minds & converstations
- Voting
- Involvement in politics
- Protests and speeches
- Court & legal action

Question 2

What is direct action

Answer 2

• Using economic or physical power to make change
• Mostly non0violent

Question 3

Name examples of economic direct action

Answer 3

• Boycott: everyone stops buying company’s products until they agree to change
• Strike: workers stop working for company until demands are met
• Stoppages: strikes except illegal
• Malicious compliance: obeying exact laws and rules in a way where it’s bad for the employer