OccuWorld<p>David Graeber on the Difference Between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Protest</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DirectAction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtExkP_SEr4&amp;ab_channel=InsurrectionHymns" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=KtExkP_SEr</span><span class="invisible">4&amp;ab_channel=InsurrectionHymns</span></a></p><p>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&#39;s a matter of a community building a well or making salt in defiance of the law (Gandhi&#39;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.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GetsTheGoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GetsTheGoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/defiance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>defiance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/noappealtoauthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noappealtoauthority</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeHumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeHumanity</span></a></p>