Nonviolent action is an art, a science and a toolbox for making change. With over 300 methods of waging struggle \u2014 from street art to strikes, boycotts to blockades \u2014 and millions of people engaging with it, nonviolent action is innovative, unexpected and sometimes laugh-out-loud surprising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If nonviolent struggle has a bread-and-butter item, it\u2019s protests. They\u2019re everywhere. They can be so routine, in fact, that the news media often yawns and ignores them. But instead of \u201cyet another boring protest,\u201d people can infuse their ideas with a little creativity \u2014 and come up with something unforgettable \u2014 and impossible to ignore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some stories collected in Nonviolence News<\/a> (many via Waging Nonviolence<\/em>\u2019s excellent reporting) throughout 2022. They reveal how protest can be a many-splendored thing, a tool that achieves a multitude of goals. Protests can startle people awake and make sure the injustice is noticed \u2014 such as when Anonymous wired Russia security systems to sound alarms<\/a> whenever the air raid sirens went off in Ukraine. They can call upon people to take action (like the Indigenous-led light projection<\/a> calling on people to boycott a racist hotel in South Dakota).<\/p>\n\n\n\n