What are some non violent movements that used civil disobedience?

Answer 1

The history of non-violent movements allready starts in classical mythology, when the Sabine women, kidnapped by the Romans, stopped a war between the Sabines and the Romans, by putting themselves "with dishevelled hair and rent garments" between the warring parties and "appealing to their fathers in the one army and their husbands in the other".

"The Rape of the Sabine Women" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women

The Boston Tea Party is another early example.

Everybody knows the campaigns by Mahatma Ghandi, especially his Salt March or Salt Satyagraha,

"Salt Satyagraha" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha

"Germans used nonviolent action against the Kapp Putsch 1920 and against the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in 1923."

"From 1940 to 1945 in various European countries, especially Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Bulgaria, people used nonviolent struggle to resist Nazi occupation."

In the Netherlands, dock workers went on strike in Amsterdam in February of 1941 to protest the recent round-up of Jews in the Jewish quarter.

http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v17n4p14.htm

In Germany itself, in the middle of the war, German women protested against the arrests of their Jewish husbands in 1943. "By the end of the week Goebbels saw no alternative but to let the prisoners go. Some thirty-five Jewish male prisoners, who had already been sent to Auschwitz, were ordered to gather their belongings and board a passenger train back to Berlin."

"the Rosenstrasse: Resisting the Nazis" : http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/book/excerpts/denmark.php

"1944 Two Central American dictators, Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez (el Salvador) and Jorge Ubico (Guatemala), were ousted as a result of nonviolent civilian insurrections."

"1968-69 Nonviolent resistance to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia enabled the Dubcek regime to stay in power for eight months, far longer than would have been possible with military resistance."

"HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE" : http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/histnonviol.html

Answer 2

Of course the classic is Gandhi's - India Independence Movement. This was used as the model of ML King's Civil Rights Movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott to the business boycott in Birmingham. It was also used in the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, to some extent and some of the more recent immigrant rights activities and marches in places like Los Angeles where in 2006 they held a rally with over 500,000 people and no significant issues.

Answer 3

There are a lot, of course. The most important, I think, are Mahatma Gandhi's independence movement in India and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. One could also include the women's suffrage movements, most importantly that in England, but the American women's suffrage movement adopted similar techniques.

Answer 4

Reword the sentence: "nevertheless the variety of lives SPARED by THE non-violent civil disobedience AS ESPOUSED by Ghandi looks quite truly worth the warfare. (era.) otherwise, THE Civil Rights circulate THAT followed GHANDI'S social gathering may no longer HAVE PROVED powerful IN united states. And Jim Crow may not in any respect have flown away both.

Answer 5

Boycotts

Answer 6

Protesting, although in japan many people were ran over by tanks for protesting.