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Intervention includes actions such as: sit-ins, blocking roads, overloading of facilities, stablishing parallel (alternative) institutions, occupying buildings, acts of civil disobedience, and deliberately seeking imprisonment. These methods directly disrupt the ability of the opponent to function. The risk level is often high: failure can damage the movemnt's authority and the opponent to function. The risk level is often high: failure can damage the movement authority and the opponent could mount a harsh response. However, methods of nonviolent intervention can somethimes have a large impact with relatively few people participating in them. Because of the risk involved, the people who carry out methods of nonviolent intervention are often the best-trained, most commited embers of your movement who may be willing to take on greater sacrifice than others in your movement. Depending on your movement's or campaign's objectives, the capabilities and experience level of the resisters, and the probability of repressive or violent reprisals by your opponent, different nonviolent actons can be selected from among these three categories. Nonviolent actions from the various categories can be conducted simultaneously in different parts of the country or region or can be sequenced so that they follow each other in order to apply continual and increasing pressure.

Psychological Intervention
Fast of moral pressure , Hunger strike , Nonviolent harassment, Reverse trial , Satyagrahic fast, Self-exposure to the elements

Physical Intervention
Mill-in, Nonviolent air raids , Nonviolent interjection , Nonviolent invasion, Nonviolent obstruction, Nonviolent occupation, Nonviolent raids , Pray-in , Ride-in, Sit-in , Stand-in, Wade-in

Social Intervention
Alternative communication system, Alternative social institutions, Establishing new social patterns, Guerrilla theater , Overloading of facilities , Speak-in , Stall-in

Economic Intervention
Alternative economic institutions, Alternative markets , Alternative transportation systems , Defiance of blockades, Dumping , Nonviolent land seizure, Politically motivated counterfeiting, Preclusive purchasing, Reverse strike, Seizure of assets, Selective patronage , Stay-in strike

Political Intervention
Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws , Disclosing identities of secret agents , Dual sovereignty and parallel government, Overloading of administrative systems , Seeking imprisonment , Work-on without collaboration