# direct action > Direct action is a tactic, not a strategy. > > – Kai Heron, [[Climate & Revolution: How do we transition from catastrophe?]] > Direct action, as a method of anarchism, involves those who are exploited and dominated acting for themselves, to change their situations in ways that do not depend on the goodwill or charity of others. > > – [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] > direct action in the anarchist tradition as action that ‘refers to practical prefigurative activity carried out by subjugated groups in order to lessen or vanquish their own oppression’ > > – [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]