More than 7 million Americans hit the streets to protest the authoritarian Trump regime in the USA, they rallied under the banner No Kings. Unsurprisingly, the protests were peaceful and looked nothing like the pro-Trump attempted Jan 6 insurrection from years ago. It’s a good thing to see Americans out on the streets expressing their discontent with their federal leadership. In a thriving democracy protests are connected and intertwined with adjacent efforts to change whatever problem there is (in America’s case it’s the rise of authoritarianism), plus individuals can make their own difference in their workplace or community. The Albert Einstein Institution has a list of 198 methods of nonviolent actions that people can take to ensure that we continue to live in democracies.
Undoubtedly, a large number of additional methods have already been used but have not been classified, and a multitude of additional methods will be invented in the future that have the characteristics of the three classes of methods: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation and nonviolent intervention.
It must be clearly understood that the greatest effectiveness is possible when individual methods to be used are selected to implement the previously adopted strategy. It is necessary to know what kind of pressures are to be used before one chooses the precise forms of action that will best apply those pressures