Examples Of Nonviolent Resistance

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How to have a nonviolent resistance to a world problem? Let’s look at Gandhi for example. He was a civil rights activist who used nonviolent ways to gain independence for India from the British rule. He used ways such as hunger strikes, worker strikes, going to jail instead of fighting back, protests and movements, as well as marches. Other forms of nonviolent resistance include petitions, speeches, civil disobedience, art, and symbolic acts. An important world issue that is happening today in the United States is the ban against the 7 Muslim countries that are in the middle east. Those countries are the following: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan. This ban does not allow immigrants and refugees from those 7 countries