ABSTRACT
THE ‘DI E-I N S’ DESCRIBED BY Cook and Kirk are reminiscent of US civil rights movement ‘sit-ins’ – efforts by African Americans to integrate lunch counters in the 1950s by literally sitting down and attempting to order food until being dragged away by police. Indeed, the history of non-violent direct action from Leo Tolstoy through Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Greenham women and beyond, is an abundant source for further research into street performance.
