Direct action is a form of activism in which participants use economic power or political power to achieve their goals. Direct action aims to either obstruct a certain practice such as a government's
Depiction of the Belgian general strike of 1893. A general strike is an example of direct action.
Anarchists Against the Wall destroying fences at the Gaza–Israel barrier in 2007
Removing ballast from a train track to protest transport of nuclear waste by rail
The Animal Liberation Front is an anarchist international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It operates without a formal leade
Direct action
…direct action utilizes physical, injurious force against people or, occasionally, property. Some activist groups, such as Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, use property destruction, arson, and sabotage and claim their acts are nonviolent as they believe that violence is harm directed toward living things…
"Britches", a baby monkey removed from the University of California in March 1985 by the Animal Liberation Front
Official logo of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, one of the groups of the ALF serving as a press office for several other groups or cells. The Latin script means "Truth always wins."
Louise Michel, a famous anarchist shocked and moved by the exploitation of animals, leading the protest where she used the anarchist black flag for the first time
Animal liberationì, graffiti in Turin