The Escalation of Social Revolution Category Specific Activities Step 1: Active Concern Community meetings, petition courts, letters to the editor, media advertisement, lobby, petition city council/county commissions, organize opposition groups, distribute hand bills, appeal to state and federal officials, voting drives, run for office, join political action committees Step 2: Demonstrative Demonstrations, media campaigns, lawful picketing, rallies Step 3: Resistance Defy court orders, strike, unlawful picketing, verbal assaults Step 4: Aggressive Kidnapping, threats, vandalize government/industry property, violent street demonstrations Step 5: Open Rebellion Harm government/industry officials, physical confrontations, rioting Step 6: Terrorism Substep 1 - Isolated specific acts of sabotage, bomb/burn buildings Substep 2 - Isolated specific assassinations Substep 3 - Localized guerilla operations Substep 4 - International guerilla operations Step 7: Revolution Open warfare * adapted from Paul Wilkinson, Terrorism and the Liberal State, New York: New York University Press, 1979, pp. 33.