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Methods of Non-Cooperation

SOCIAL NON-COOPERATION:

Ostracism of Persons

Mondays

4:30 pm

55. Social boycott

56. Selective social boycott

57. Lysistratic nonaction

58. Excommunication

59. Interdict

SOCIAL NON-COOPERATION:

Non-cooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions

Tuesdays

10:00 am

60. Suspension of social and sports activities

61. Boycott of social affairs

62. Student strike

63. Social disobedience

64. Withdrawal from social institutions

SOCIAL NON-COOPERATION:

Withdrawal from the Social System

Saturdays

11:30 am

65. Stay-at-home

66. Total personal noncooperation

67. “Flight” of workers

68. Sanctuary

69. Collective disappearance

70. Protest emigration (hijrat)

71. Consumers’ boycott

72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods

73. Policy of austerity

74. Rent withholding

75. Refusal to rent

76. National consumers’ boycott

77. International consumers’ boycott

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS

Actions by Consumers

Saturdays

11:30 am

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS: 

Action by Workers and Producers

Saturdays

11:30 am

78. Workmen’s boycott

79. Producers’ boycott

80. Suppliers’ and handlers’ boycott

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS: 

Action by Middlemen

Saturdays

11:30 am

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS: 

Action by Owners and Management

Saturdays

11:30 am

81. Traders’ boycott

82. Refusal to let or sell property

83. Lockout

84. Refusal of industrial assistance

85. Merchants’ “general strike”

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS: 

Action by Holders of Financial Resources

Saturdays

11:30 am

86. Withdrawal of bank deposits

87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments

88. Refusal to pay debts or interest

89. Severance of funds and credit

90. Revenue refusal

91. Refusal of a government’s money

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

BOYCOTTS: 

Action by Governments

Saturdays

11:30 am

92. Domestic embargo

93. Blacklisting of traders 

94. International sellers’ embargo

95. International buyers’ embargo

96. International trade embargo

Saturdays

11:30 am

97. Protest strike

98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Symbolic Strikes

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Agricultural Strikes

Saturdays

11:30 am

99. Peasant strike

100. Farm Workers’ strike

Saturdays

11:30 am

101. Refusal of impressed labor

102. Prisoners’ strike

103. Craft strike

104. Professional strike

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Strikes by Special Groups

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Ordinary Industrial Strikes

Saturdays

11:30 am

105. Establishment strike

106. Industry strike

107. Sympathetic strike

108. Detailed strike

109. Bumper strike

110. Slowdown strike

111. Working-to-rule strike

112. Reporting “sick” (sick-in)

113. Strike by resignation

114. Limited strike

115. Selective strike

Saturdays

11:30 am

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Restricted Strikes

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Multi-Industry Strikes

Saturdays

11:30 am

116. Generalized strike

117. General strike

ECONOMIC NON-COOPERATION - 

THE STRIKE: 

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures

Saturdays

11:30 am

118. Hartal

119. Economic shutdown

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

Rejection of Authority

Saturdays

11:30 am

120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance

121. Refusal of public support

122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

Citizens’ Noncooperation with Government

Saturdays

11:30 am

123. Boycott of legislative bodies

124. Boycott of elections

125. Boycott of government employment and positions

126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other             bodies

127. Withdrawal from government educational                           institutions

128. Boycott of government-supported organizations

129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents

130. Removal of own signs and placemarks

131. Refusal to accept appointed officials

132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

Citizens’ Alternatives to Obedience

Saturdays

11:30 am

133. Reluctant and slow compliance

134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision

135. Popular nonobedience

136. Disguised disobedience

137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse

138. Sitdown

139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation

140. Hiding, escape, and false identities

141. Civil disobedience of “illegitimate” laws

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

Action by Government Personnel

Saturdays

11:30 am

142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides

143. Blocking of lines of command and information

144. Stalling and obstruction

145. General administrative noncooperation

146. Judicial noncooperation

147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation         by enforcement agents

148. Mutiny

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

Domestic Governmental Action

Saturdays

11:30 am

149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays

150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

POLITICAL NON-COOPERATION:

International Governmental Action

Saturdays

11:30 am

151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations

152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events

153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition

154. Severance of diplomatic relations

155. Withdrawal from international organizations

156. Refusal of membership in international bodies

157. Expulsion from international organizations

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