Direct action
Violent direct action is
any direct action which utilizes physical injurious force against persons or,
controversially (see below), property.[2] Examples of
violent direct action include: rioting, lynching,
terrorism,
political assassination, freeing political
prisoners, interfering with police actions, armed insurrection,
and arguably property destruction.
Ann
Hansen, one of the Squamish 5,
also known as Vancouver 5, a Canadian anarchist and
self-professed urban guerrilla fighter, wrote in her book Direct Action that,
The essence of direct action ... is people fighting for
themselves, rejecting those who claim to represent their true interests,
whether they be revolutionaries or government officials. It is a far more
subversive idea than civil disobedience because it is not meant to reform or
influence state power but is meant to undermine it by showing it to be
unnecessary and harmful. When people, themselves, resort to violence to protect
their community from racist attacks or to protect their environment from
ecological destruction, they are taking direct action.
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