Three Types of Action

Conventional action
Voting, taking part in election campaigns as party members or campaign workers, taking part in community activity, making contact with politicians and officials through email, phone, letter writing and meetings, pamphleteering, setting up websites, organising petitions and lobbying, and engaging in consumer boycotts, lawful demonstrations and lawful strikes
Confrontational
Invading a meeting, blockading a road, holding demonstrations which have not been coordinated with the police and the local council, hacking into a web site, picketing, occupying buildings, and going ahead with a strike that has been decreed unlawful by the authorities.
Violent action
Damage to property and injury to people

Mike Newman Workshop 2005