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nonviolent resistance

NOUN
civil disobedience
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NOUN
passive resistance
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But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.

From Salon

Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69, due to cardiopulmonary failure with complications from endocarditis.

From Los Angeles Times

Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.

From Salon

Los Angeles police arrested at least 25 people Tuesday night amid a curfew downtown as faith leaders made calls for “nonviolent resistance.”

From Los Angeles Times

His search led him to India, where he studied Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ideas about nonviolent resistance.

From Los Angeles Times