David Graeber on the Difference Between #Protest and #DirectAction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtExkP_SEr4&ab_channel=InsurrectionHymns

This is the difference between protest and direct action: Protest, however militant, is an appeal to the authorities to behave differently; direct action, whether it's a matter of a community building a well or making salt in defiance of the law (Gandhi's example again), trying to shut down a meeting or occupy a factory, is a matter of acting as if the existing structure of power does not even exist. Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

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