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Mobilizing citizens to turn off their lights everyday to protest government corruption

Citizen Initiative for Constant Light mobilized 30 million people in Turkey to turn off and on their lights to demand that the government act against corruption. The action resulted from public outrage after a car crash openly revealed connections between government, police and the mob. Turkey is a secular nation with a tradition of democracy. But it also has a tradition of human rights abuse. The influence of corruption extends throughout society through local patronage systems undeterred by any investigative reporting from a mass media industry, which is itself complicit in the corruption. As a result, the corruption issue has historically sparked only apathy and hopelessness in Turkish civil society.

Tags: Year: 2002 Year: 2001 Year: 1997 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Formal Statements Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Declarations of indictment and intention Protest and Persuassion: Group or mass petitions Protest and Persuassion: Formal Statements Protest and Persuassion: Communications with a Wider Audience Protest and Persuassion: Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Protest and Persuassion: Banners, posters, displayed communications Protest and Persuassion: Leaflets, pamphlets, and books Protest and Persuassion: Newspapers and journals Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: IT messaging - Mass SMS and e-mailing Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Displays of flags and symbolic colors Protest and Persuassion: Wearing of symbols Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic lights Protest and Persuassion: Displays of portraits Protest and Persuassion: New signs and names Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic reclamations Protest and Persuassion: Humorous skits and pranks Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Protest and Persuassion: Walk-outs Methods of NonCooperation: Social boycott Methods of NonCooperation: Selective social boycott Methods of NonCooperation: Student strike Methods of NonCooperation: Social disobedience Methods of NonCooperation: Total personal noncooperation Methods of NonCooperation: Slowdown strike Methods of NonCooperation: Limited strike Methods of NonCooperation: Selective strike Methods of NonCooperation: Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance Methods of NonCooperation: Refusal of public support Methods of NonCooperation: Literature and speeches advocating resistance Methods of NonCooperation: Boycott of gov. depts., agencies, and other bodies NonViolent Intervention: Fast of moral pressure NonViolent Intervention: Sit-in NonViolent Intervention: Pray-in NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction NonViolent Intervention: Guerrilla theater NonViolent Intervention: Physical Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Social Intervention
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Tags: Category: NonViolent Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Self-exposure to the elements NonViolent Intervention: Fast of moral pressure NonViolent Intervention: Hunger strike NonViolent Intervention: Satyagrahic fast NonViolent Intervention: Reverse trial NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent harassment NonViolent Intervention: Sit-in NonViolent Intervention: Stand-in NonViolent Intervention: Ride-in NonViolent Intervention: Wade-in NonViolent Intervention: Mill-in NonViolent Intervention: Pray-in NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent raids NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent air raids NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent invasion NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent interjection NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent occupation NonViolent Intervention: Establishing new social patterns NonViolent Intervention: Overloading of facilities NonViolent Intervention: Stall-in NonViolent Intervention: Speak-in NonViolent Intervention: Guerrilla theater NonViolent Intervention: Alternative social institutions NonViolent Intervention: Alternative communication system NonViolent Intervention: Reverse strike NonViolent Intervention: Stay-in strike NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent land seizure NonViolent Intervention: Defiance of blockades NonViolent Intervention: Politically motivated counterfeiting NonViolent Intervention: Preclusive purchasing NonViolent Intervention: Seizure of assets NonViolent Intervention: Dumping NonViolent Intervention: Selective patronage NonViolent Intervention: Alternative markets NonViolent Intervention: Alternative transportation systems NonViolent Intervention: Alternative economic institutions NonViolent Intervention: Overloading of administrative systems NonViolent Intervention: Disclosing identities of secret agents NonViolent Intervention: Seeking imprisonment NonViolent Intervention: Civil disobedience of NonViolent Intervention: Work-on without collaboration NonViolent Intervention: Dual sovereignty and parallel government NonViolent Intervention: Psychological Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Physical Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Social Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Economic Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Political Intervention NonViolent Intervention: Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws

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