198 Methods of Nonviolent Direct Action

Method #63: Social Disobedience

January 20, 2014

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In 2007, the Association for the Protection and Defense of Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia circulated a petition to allow women to drive. When the petition received mixed results, they took more drastic measures, driving themselves in public, and getting arrested.

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Method #63: Social Disobedience

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