Direct Action Committee information

The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War or the Direct Action Committee (DAC) was a pacifist organisation formed "to assist the conducting of non-violent...

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals...

Block Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg Cypherpunk Direct Action Committee Direct Action Everywhere Direct Action to Stop the War Earth First! Earth Liberation...

Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take "direct action" for a separate Muslim homeland after the British...

In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those...

started his own Black Panther project in 1965 called the Oakland Direct Action Committee (ODAC) and was its head. He later found that other local groups...

Aldermaston march at Easter (4–7 April), 1958, was organised by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and supported by the recently formed...

Square, London. The first Aldermaston March was conceived by the Direct Action Committee and took place in 1958. The British nuclear weapons programme,...

union". In 1994 it adopted its current name, having previously been the Direct Action Movement since 1979, and before that the Syndicalist Workers' Federation...

1964, a promoter of nonviolent direct action and a founder of the Direct Action Committee, a forerunner of the Committee of 100. Hugh Brock was born on...

This list of political action committees is organized by the nature of each particular U.S. PAC's work. OpenSecrets also maintains a comprehensive and...

Jack O Fire, Lord High Fixers and, in 2004, the Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee. Chris Gates was also with Poison 13, Junkyard and Charter Bulldogs...

nonviolent direct action protests in 1952. In 1949 the pacifist Peace Pledge Union (PPU) responded to its relative inertia and to calls for more action by holding...

Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming Secretary of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War in May 1958 (just after it had organised the...

of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Direct Action Committee, a British peace campaign 1957–1961 Distributed autonomous corporation...

disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (DAC) in Easter 1958 (4–7 April). There are...

widespread public support. The party was founded on 12 May 1987 as the 'Action Committee 5/6ths Pensions for Everyone' (Aktiounskomitee 5/6 Pensioun fir jiddfereen)...

in order to form the Committee of 100, which became, in effect, the direct action wing of CND. Russell argued that direct action was necessary because...

its committee, asserting that Soviet sympathisers now dominated the AWPA. He later in the decade actively supported the Direct Action Committee against...

The Dublin Housing Action Committee (DHAC) was a 1960s protest group formed in response to housing shortages in Dublin, Ireland's capital city. It quickly...

New Cross Massacre Action Committee (NCMAC) was set up, chaired by John La Rose, which organised a "Black People's Day of Action" on 2 March 1981, when...

Founded in 1983, AIDS Action Committee (AAC) of Massachusetts is a not-for-profit, community-based health organization whose mission is to stop the epidemic...

The Action Committee for the United States of Europe (French: Comité d'action pour les États-Unis d'Europe), colloquially referred to as the Monnet Committee...