0 to go as a group into a public building and refuse to leave or to allow normal activities to continue there until a situation that you are complaining about is changed
1 to be present in a meeting or class, watching it but not taking part in it:
2 an occasion when a group of people go into a public building and refuse to leave or allow normal activities to continue there until a situation that they are complaining about is changed:
4 to fulfill a responsibility for another person:
5 a public event in which a person or group enters a place and refuses to leave until certain demands have been agreed to:
6 a situation in which a group of people protest by sitting down and refusing to leave until their complaints are dealt with:
The coercion may be immediate, as when a march or sit-in prevents a person from entering a building or using a public street.
By contrast, if the issues a social movement wishes to bring into public discourse are already unfavourably framed, why should a demonstration or sit-in be useful?
Certainly in my university there has not been the whiff of a"demo"or a sit-in about this issue.
I was required to telephone students to entice them to reveal the names of the principal organisers of the sit-in.
Now men and women in the community are involved in a sit-in because the only industry that they have left is disappearing before their eyes.
We do not need to be lawyers to understand that a sit-in is unlawful.
A successful sit-in could not be to the advantage of the men concerned.
No payment was made to the workers until after a sit-in had forced the company's hand.
