Don't Just Vote, Get Active
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Don't Just Vote, Get Active (DJV) is an open, decentralized national campaign in the United States of America initiated by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective. DJV was publicly announced at the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) in 2004 and is focused on demonstrating the effectiveness of direct democracy and direct action over political representation.
According to one of the 20,000 "voter's guides" distributed by those involved with DJV before the 2004 election, "Voting for people to represent your interests is the least efficient and effective means of applying political power. The alternative, broadly speaking, is acting directly to represent your interests yourself."
Unlike previous projects critical of electoral politics, DJV has deliberately avoided the voting vs. abstention argument that is common in the anarchist milieu.
