What is the point of Direct Action?
The difference between symbolic action (protest) and direct action (resistance) is that there is a direct effect. With symbolic actions you think about demonstrations, petitions and so on. With direct action you think about occupation, blockades and sabotage. Because of an action camp in the trees the trees can not be felled. Because of an occupation of a building site or sabotage of a gentech field the work is stopped. Direct action is usually only started when all the other means (for instance legal) have been exhausted. Saving Iceland is not a pressure group. We do not primarily want to put pressure on politicians to get them to make different decisions about a certain issue. We also do not do an occupation or other direct action to increase our lobbying power (even though it can be a side-effect that the actions of Saving Iceland can improve the position of other environmental organisations at the negotiating table). This does not by definition mean that we never ever participate i
