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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"direct action"”.
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Direct action and industrial unionism: the Sindicato General Obrero de la Industria Fabril: a study of an anarcho-syndicalist union in urban Cuba, 1917-1925
… unionism in Cuba and the perceived importance of direct action tactics among workers during the 1910s and 1920s. Through such examination, it has become clear that workers of the period possessed class-consciousness prior to the foundation of a communist party in Cuba. This thesis shows why …
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Wupperthal : strategy for action : a case-study in co-operative rural development
This study documents an attempt to employ a direct-action strategy within the rural community of Wupperthal in order to combat rural stagnation and disintegration, to reduce poverty, and to promote development. The direct-action strategy employed was that of helping people to form themselves into …
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
… that by engaging in various forms of nonviolent direct action a campaigning group could win over, or convert, even the hardest opponent to their cause. He also suggested that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield sufficient political power to …
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The historical origins of the American Peace Test
… Test Site. This study concludes that interest in direct action was evident during the 1983-1984 Direct Action Framework Period within the Nuclear Weapons FREEZE Campaign. This interest became more tangible with a call to the Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) group in May of 1985 requesting to …
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
… examines the sit-in demonstrations that used direct action and civil disobedience to target segregation at store lunch counters. The Nashville demonstrations were the last sit-in protests to occur that are discussed in this thesis, which also examines the protests in Wichita and Greensboro. …
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Las Hijas de Violencia: Performance, the Street, and Online Discourse
… Las Hijas de Violencia. Through anarchistic direct action resistance tactics, the group confronted harassers in the streets of Mexico City and their recordings launched global media interest which led to viral online sharing. Widespread sharing of their performance led to the creation of …
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Government Wage Policy, Wage Determination, and the Development Process: A Case Study of Tanzania
… reference to Tanzania. GWP includes not only direct action on wages, but legal and institutional changes which indirectly affect labor market processes and industrial relations.
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Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist Treatments Normalize Aromatase and Reduce Cyclooxygenase-2 in Ovarian Endometrioma and Eutopic Endometrium with Endometrosis
… P450 and cyclooxygenase-2 metabolism by direct action in the eutopic endometrium of endometriosis and ovarian endometrioma. METHODS: Endometrial specimens and ovarian endometrioma tissues were obtained from infertility women undergoing laparoscopic surgery. Biopsy samples of the …
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One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
… autoethnography through a community- based action research paradigm, as well as a genealogical method, are used. A working-class analysis is applied throughout. In Ontario, residents of housing co-operatives are not considered tenants, following a history of legislation, legal precedents, …
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In the Right (Wrong?) Place at the Right Time: A Plausibility Probe of Ziad Munson's Process of Mobilisation, with Violent and Non-violent Evidence.
… a case study of the Canadian terrorist group “Direct Action” is presented. Using both semi-structured interviews and extant research to provide data, Munson’s mobilisation process was tested to determine if its further use, particularly by counterterrorism practitioners, is warranted. Munson’s …
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Exploring atitudes towards immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa
… for deportation or the legitimacy of illegal direct action against them.
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A Reassessment of the Aesthetics of Audience Response and Audience-Performer Interaction in the Theatrical Event: The Transpersonal Paradigm
… the audience and audience-performer interaction in the theatrical performance. There also is an impasse in research into these matters today. No empirical study of audience-actor interaction during the performance has been able to demonstrate significant effects of such interaction, and, …
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Beauty on the Walls: Graffiti and Street Art as a Social Movement
… I have highlighted the movement as an attempt at direct action and a social platform for communication and self expression at grassroots level.
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Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964
… attempting to change the system itself through direct action and political pressure. This period of what I term the ""new activism"" lasted until April 1964, when the military coup re-established a rigid model of government-directed corporativism."
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of fiction and faction: Cultivating a Revolution in Suburbia
… development of the exhibition of fiction and faction, presented at the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough from April 2026, 2018. Considering issues of ecological uncertainty, sustainability, and community building within the suburbs, this project examines the …
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State Failure' in provision of education and health services in Zimbabwe: Adjustments, adabtations and evolving coping stratergies of rural communities, 2000-2007.
… of exit, three types of voice, three types of direct action, two types of loyalty, and other alternative options such as apathy and spiritualism. The methodological framework entailed a case study approach of two rural communities in Zimbabwe. The study purposely selected Maotsa and Shumba …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
… of Black schools. Using the same Civil Rights direct action tactics, such as boycotts, demonstrations, etc., Black organizers demanded Black administrators, Black history, and various school improvements. Their demands created opportunities that were not achieved in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Analysis of CHD Remodelers during Development: A Tale in Two Organisms
… that both repression and H3K27me3 levels is a direct action of PICKLE on these loci. Using zebrafish as a model system, I show that a similar CHD ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler, CHD5, promotes correct development of zebrafish embryos. A new ChIP protocol that analyzes both histone …
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