BED's tactics, such as stoop watches, reversing evictions, and confrontations with landlords and their hired muscle, demonstrate a commitment to direct action as a means of achieving housing justice.
The podcast episodes provided demonstrate how direct action has been employed in a variety of social and political movements, from climate justice to housing rights to LGBTQ+ activism.
For example, the episode on Brian Tokar's 'Climate Justice and Community Renewal' discusses grassroots resistance and direct action tactics used to challenge the fossil fuel industry, while the episode on ACT UP's role in the AIDS crisis examines how protests and civil disobedience transformed public perception and policies.
Other episodes, such as 'Platforms of Freedom: Prefiguring Library Socialism' and 'Revolutionary Prefiguration', explore how direct action can be used to build alternative institutions and challenge existing power structures.