Soulforce Inc. uses dialogue and non-violent direct action to make local and national religious institutions more inclusive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) members.  GLBT members carry out this work, attempting to engage religious leaders in a conversation about inclusion, and creating non-violent direct action tactics when negotiations fail.  The goal of this work is to empower and to renew GLBT members who have suffered as a result of exclusionary policies, statements and practices, and to change the hearts and minds of congregations, the general public, and religious leaders.  

In 1999, International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) successfully pressured the World Bank to relinquish its funding to China’s Western Poverty Reduction Project through a two-pronged approach of mobilizing at the grassroots level to lobby the U.S. government and convincing Washington specialists to draft a claim to the World Bank investigation panel listing the internal policy violations.

The Initiative for Freedom of Expression used a civil disobedience approach that involved voluntarily selecting to republish state-banned materials to ridicule restrictions on freedom of expression.  The tactic was implemented in order to make many people participate in the “crime” so the action no longer appeared a crime.  They tried to force prosecution in order to bring attention t

A group of Burmese laborers who were forced to work on a pipeline project in Myanmar successfully filed suit against two co-venturers in the pipeline project, Unocal and Total.  They claim that the two transnational corporations knew and profited from the fact that the military of Myanmar was using violence and intimidation to relocate villages, enslave farmers, commit rape and other tortu