Direct action (n.) is activism that skips the newsletter and goes straight to the sidewalk.
Direct action (n.) is the argument you make once you have run out of people willing to hear one.
Direct action (n.) is aimed past the people it inconveniences, at the ones watching them be inconvenienced.
Direct action (n.) is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements grounded in the belief that you cannot separate means and ends.
MeToo (n.) is a social movement against sexual harassment and assault in which survivors publicly share their experiences.
MeToo (n.) is the hashtag that turned private harm into public weather.
MeToo (n.) is the exact opposite of its intended purpose if you read # as pound instead of hashtag.
MeToo (n.) is grounded in the idea that it is often the case that somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
Protest (n.) shows its effect in what rulers cannot even contemplate: the war was horrifying, but it could have been worse.
Protest (n.) is covered as a threat to order: its tactics are discussed on the news, its views almost never.
Protest (n.) against the Vietnam war took years and hundreds of thousands of troops to appear; against Iraq it came before the war began — a measure of forty years' change in conscience.
Protest (n.) usually gets a bad press, whatever its cause, because it teaches people they can act, and they are meant to feel powerless.
Protesting (n.) requires a permit, issued by the office being objected to, specifying the route
Protesting (n.) converts a grievance into a headcount
Protesting (n.) is like knocking on a bolted door loudly enough for the neighbours to hear.
Protesting (n.) is admired in the past tense and condemned in the present.