Non-violent Protests and The Teachings of Ghandi

This year was 1986 when Philippine people were replaced by dictator Ferdinand Marcos for 20 years. A four day non-violent mass demo beat Marcos' s dictatorship. This is a series of general non-violent revolution and prayers in the Philippines in 1986, showing the recovery of national democracy. Nonviolent resistance is the best way to achieve social change peacefully during political oppression.

All the methods of Ghandi are called Ashimsa. Of course, Mohandas Ghandi is a non-violent person, everything he does is non-violent. Instead of requesting war and riots, he protested and boycotted many England products. Many people are surprised at how he uses it. As he wants peace, he does not want war, so many people follow him. He is also vegetarian. As many believers have said, Gandhi is a "moving mountain" person. He says this because he does not give up until he reaches his aim or purpose, and he accomplishes his purpose by doing non-violent things. The main goal of Gandhi is to unite all Indian people. Gandhi is also a person who does not infringe on his promise and has established its own rules and laws, but if you do not like British laws to Indian people, you will not obey it. As I said before, he did everything in a non-violent way, and he also made his followers do everything in a non-violent way.

Mohandas Gandhi is praised for leading India's independence. Gandhi took non-violent measures to non-violently protest the people of India freely. In April 1919 Gandhi asked the Indian people who wanted independence from the UK to stop working nationwide and peacefully protest from their workplace (Bentley 1027). When British police arrested people and started beating them with a baton, peaceful protests were over. Gandhi was arrested and put in jail for six months, but it did not prevent him from requesting freedom in India (Bentley 1027). Gandhi also has acquired many believers who believe in nonviolence. In 1919, 379 peaceful demonstrators were killed by British authorities in Amritsar, Punjab province (Bentley 1028). Except for the obvious threats to British rule, innocent people including women and children were killed.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Indian nationalist movements continued to develop. Gandhi's independence movement continued, and he criticized the British government and taxation, encouraging peaceful protests. In 1921 Gandhi demanded that all Indians boycott the taxation of British agricultural tools. This adversely affected the economy. His non-cooperative movement became often violent despite non-violent goals, and Ghandi was imprisoned in 1922 to instigate the movement.