Morally you should be able to do whatever it takes, outside of violence, to achieve justice. Peacefully filling the administration building and sitting-in until they give in to your demands, blocking a building, or having everyone strike are all useful tactics if your supporters are ready to do them.
Choosing Tactics
Generally campaigns go through several phases:
1. Ask nicely: You try to meet with the people who can make the change you want and either can’t get a meeting or you have a meeting and are denied your wishes. (This is an exercise that you must go through in order to be able to say later that you tried the “just ask them and they’ll listen” approach and it didn’t work.)
2. Action & Education: These go hand-in-hand. You educate people about
the problem and try to gain mass support by holding rallies, using petitions, holding public hearings, flyering students on campus, writing letters-to-the-editor of the campus paper, bringing in speakers, etc.
3. Negotiations: After you’ve shown your strength your target should be
more willing to negotiate. However, they will probably stall.
4. Either you win or you’ll need to intensify the campaign. Experiment with
different tactics and keep up the heat.
You must have a target. This has to be an individual as bureaucracies will ‘pass the buck’. You need concrete demands that this individual will have the power to grant
