General Article I asked Greenpeace volunteers to define activism. Here’s what they said

Topic Selected: Being an Active Citizen Book Volume: 453

By Leah Das

Picketing, protesting and khadi cloth were just some of the things that landed my grandfather in prison at the hands of the British empire.

He and his friends were followers of Gandhi, and they spent at least 21 years using peaceful methods to resist British rule, until the partition of India in 1947. They bought land together, grew food, spun and wove cotton khadi, sold goods to counter British imports, and picketed and protested as part of their resistance. Added together, he sp...

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