Today's Method falls under the category of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion. Specifically, its intent it to put pressure on individuals:
Several methods may be used in attempts to put pressures on individual members of the opponent group, whether officials or ordinary soldiers, for example. These acts may be directed against specific persons or groups of persons, or may be intended to apply pressure on individuals who are part of a large body, such as an occupation army.
In light of Take A Stand Day on the 28th, I thought we'd go with 34. Vigils:
A vigil is an appeal normally addressed not to one or a few person, but to many people. Like picketing, a vigil consists of people remaining at a particular place as a means of expressing a point of view. It differs from picketing, however, in that it is frequently maintained over a longer period of time, sometimes around the clock, and is associated with a more solemn attitude, often of a pleading or religious character. It often involves late hours and loss of sleep.
In 1917, for example, women in the Netherlands maintained a vigil for weeks outside the building where a new constitution for the country was being drafted, seeking a clause granting woman suffrage. The clause was not inserted, but woman suffrage was determined to be an issue on which a simple majority vote of the legislature could rule1.
Don't forget to find a vigil, town hall meeting, or other such gathering Tuesday!
ntodd
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
15. Group lobbying
19. Wearing of symbols
21. Delivering symbolic objects.
22. Protest disrobings
38. Marches
57. Lysistratic nonaction
71. Consumers' boycott
90. Revenue refusal
117. General strike
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
178. Guerrilla theater
193. Overloading of administrative system
1 - As an aside:
Before 1917, the Netherlands had a first past the post single seat system with census suffrage (per the constitution of 1814), in which only property-owning adult males had the right to vote. Under influence of the rising socialist movement the requirements were gradually reduced until in 1917 the present voting system of a representative democracy with male universal suffrage was instituted, expanded in 1919 to include women.
Per Wikipedia.
If you live in PA, you can go to a Take a Stand event in Reading, PA. It's at
Central Park UMC
138 6th Street
6pm
The message target is Rep. Jim Gerlach.
There's an event in Philly too, where the message target will be Sen. Specter.
Tuesday, Aug. 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Free Library of Philadelphia
Central Library, Skyline Room
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA
Posted by: eRobin | August 27, 2007 at 09:29 PM