Midtowng has another history lesson in nonviolent economic resistance from the US' past:
On a cold Sunday morning, December 11, 1921, in the tiny frontier town of Franklin, Kansas, five hundred women crowded into a church hall. Men were excluded. They were mostly immigrants from eastern Europe. They were hungry, angry, and desperate. After a heated discussion they resolved on a course of action - they would march.
By the following day women from miles around had come to join them. Their numbers swelled to somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000. Some marched while carrying infants in their arms. The local sheriff and his deputies was overwhelmed.
By December 15th the Governor of Kansas had sent in three companies of cavalry and a machine gun company, to stop the "Army of Amazons", as the newspapers had dubbed them.
You can find the rest of the article at The Economic Populist.
