nonviolent

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In the following years, they built a flourishing movement fighting for farmworkers’ rights, employing marches, fasts and other nonviolent protest actions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

He deployed nonviolent tactics—including boycotts, marches and hunger strikes—to win rights for farmworkers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The group had gathered at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster for what was billed as "nonviolent direct action training".

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Other groups are providing nonviolent civil disobedience training, for example, which organizers describe as calling attention to the injustice of the current policy.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

McKissick also defended the phrase, terming it an inevitable response to the “dashed hopes and mangled dreams of a people and a result of the ineffectiveness of the nonviolent movement.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson