Synonyms for direct action
di·rect ac·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. direct actionnoun

   a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands

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1. • Protest

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1. Siqiniq Maupin:

   We plan to do everything in our power to stop ConocoPhillips from doing construction in Nuiqsut this winter, we are going to continue to fight this by legal means, by direct action.

2. Wayne Black:

   I've never heard of anything so crazy, i mean, the concept in a post-9/11 world of having sworn law enforcement officers unarmed at an airport, not being able to take direct action -- I don't know what they are thinking.

3. Sean Wengerter:

   It seems like Covid, the virus, is creating a local inflammatory response that's leading to some of these thrombotic events, this is happening because of the direct action of the virus on the arteries themselves.

4. Emily Grossman:

   We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law, we therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis.

5. Cody Wilson:

   This is a direct action on behalf of the President Obama administration to control public speech about guns on the Internet.