Inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, to name a few, a rich body of knowledge exists for activists interested in NVA.
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1. Public Speeches 2. Letters of opposition or support 3. Declarations by organizations and institutions 4. Signed public statements 5. Declarations of indictment and intention 6. Group or mass petitions
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols 8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications 9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books 10. Newspapers and journals 11. Records, radio, and television 12. Skywriting and earthwriting
13. Deputations 14. Mock awards 15. Group lobbying 16. Picketing 17. Mock elections
18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors 19. Wearing of symbols 20. Prayer and worship 21. Delivering symbolic objects 22. Protest disrobings 23. Destruction of own property 24. Symbolic lights 25. Displays of portraits 26. Paint as protest 27. New signs and names 28. Symbolic sounds 29. Symbolic reclamations 30. Rude gestures
31. 'Haunting' officials 32. Taunting officials 33. Fraternization 34. Vigils
35. Humorous skits and pranks 36. Performances of plays and music 37. Singing
38. Marches 39. Parades 40. Religious processions 41. Pilgrimages 42. Motorcades
43. Political mourning 44. Mock funerals 45. Demonstrative funerals 46. Homage at burial places
47. Assemblies of protest or support 48. Protest meetings 49. Camouflaged meetings of protest 50. Teach-ins
51. Walk-outs 52. Silence 53. Renouncing honors 54. Turning one's back
55. Social boycott 56. Selective social boycott 57. Lysistratic nonaction 58. Excommunication 59. Interdict
60. Suspension of social and sports activities 61. Boycott of social affairs 62. Student strike 63. Social disobedience 64. Withdrawal from social institutions
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
78. Workmen's boycott 79. Producers' boycott
80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott
81. Traders' boycott 82. Refusal to let or sell property 83. Lockout 84. Refusal of industrial assistance 85. Merchants' 'general strike'
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
92. Domestic embargo 93. Blacklisting of traders 94. International sellers' embargo 95. International buyers' embargo 96. International trade embargo
97. Protest strike 98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
99. Peasant strike 100. Farm Workers' strike
101. Refusal of impressed labor 102. Prisoners' strike 103. Craft strike 104. Professional strike
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
116. Generalized strike 117. General strike
118. Hartal 119. Economic shutdown
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance 121. Refusal of public support 122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance
123. Boycott of legislative bodies 124. Boycott of elections 125. Boycott of government employment and positions 126. Boycott of government departments, 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
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
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
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays 150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
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
158. Self-exposure to the elements 159. The fast
160. Reverse trial 161. Nonviolent harassment
162. Sit-in 163. Stand-in 164. Ride-in 165. Wade-in 166. Mill-in 167. Pray-in 168. Nonviolent raids 169. Nonviolent air raids 170. Nonviolent invasion 171. Nonviolent interjection 172. Nonviolent obstruction 173. Nonviolent occupation
174. Establishing new social patterns 175. Overloading of facilities 176. Stall-in 177. Speak-in 178. Guerrilla theater 179. Alternative social institutions 180. Alternative communication system
181. Reverse strike 182. Stay-in strike 183. Nonviolent land seizure 184. Defiance of blockades 185. Politically motivated counterfeiting 186. Preclusive purchasing 187. Seizure of assets 188. Dumping 189. Selective patronage 190. Alternative markets 191. Alternative transportation systems 192. Alternative economic institutions
193. Overloading of administrative systems 194. Disclosing identities of secret agents 195. Seeking imprisonment 196. Civil disobedience of 'neutral' laws 197. Work-on without collaboration 198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government
Source: Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973).