Can anyone give me an example of non-violent resistance? Other than Ghandi.?

Question

Ergh, the question is bad. But for my debate, I need an example of a time, anywhere is okay, when small things like petitions and letters to the government stopped something like the damming of a river or anything along those lines. Anybody got any ideas?

Answer 1

The people of Nevada have been preventing the Yucca Mountain Waste repository for the last forty years.

Successfully. Which is amazing when you consider it's actually a republican controlled state.

Answer 2

The so far unsuccessful yet non-violent Native Hawaiian Resistance against U.S. Occupancy of Hawaii.

Answer 3

the first people Power that happened in the Philippines! try to research about that. Filipinos rallied in the streets and whatsoever!

ask this next time in the history section.

Answer 4

well six us citizens sued the city of Washington DC and were able to restore the rights of ALL Americans to own and posses hand guns.

They deserve a medal for standing up to such ignorance.

Answer 5

Look up info on the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty campaign as well as campaigns to stop Huntington Life Sciences a vivisection lab that is barely hanging on by a thread. You can also look into ELF and ALF actions which are non violent (no humans are animals have been hurt by the ELF or ALF and things actually have gotten done and no destruction of property is not violence as it is not living) Also look into Earth First! and folks like Judi Bari (R.I.P.) and Dave Forman (a founder of EF!)

As for a quick note about Ghandi he was a womanizer.

Answer 6

The first name that leaps to mind is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  He led all kinds of non-violent protests to send a message about equal rights (the Montgomery bus boycott, sit-ins in Birmingham and Selma, the march on D.C., etc.)

Answer 7

There must be thousands of them. Proposals for skyscrapers, desal plants, landfills, pipelines, factories etc get knocked back all the time due to community complains. How major is the thing you are looking for?

Jon

Answer 8

The Saffron Revolution led by the Buddhist monks of Burma comes to mind. If curious just type it in on a search and you get loads of information.

It's really sad the people are being terribly abused. Gandhi worked with the British because they were half way civilized. Some of these despotic government however there is simply no negotiation possible, period, end of story. If you protest they most often will simply round you up, torture and often rape you (man or woman), thrown you in prison and or disappear you. This is exactly what is going on in Burma. God help these poor people to have a better life.

Answer 9

GREENPEACE. we do non-violent actions.