DIRECT ACTION enables people to develop a new sense of self confidence and an awareness of their individual and collective power.		DIRECT ACTION is founded on the idea that people can develop the ability for self rule only through practice, and proposes that all persons directly decide the important issues facing them.
DIRECT ACTION encompasses a whole range of activities, from organising co-ops to engaging in resistance to authority.		DIRECT ACTION is not just a tactic, it is individuals asserting their ability to control their own lives and to participate in social life without the need for mediation or control by bureaucrats or professional politicians.
DIRECT ACTION places moral commitment above positive law.		DIRECT ACTION is not a last resort when other methods have failed, but the preferred way of doing things.