OPERATION TRANSPARENCY is a bold campaign launched by Casino-Free Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) legally has to post transcripts of its meetings on its website. But it has not. It used taxpayer money to determine if the revenue projections by the casino applicants are accurate. But it refuses to make these public, too. In response, CFP ran OPERATION TRANSPARENCY to force these documents to become public.

Mass actions in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and L.A. have ignited controversy over tactics and strategy. Here are 7 ways we can make our protests more powerful and open up new options for future mass direct action scenarios.

For months, Canada Post Corporation (CPC) had refused to disclose its plans for closings and possible deregulation of the postal service, despite multiple closings around the country. In respnse, CUPW launched Operation Transparency: a campaign to go on the offence and force CPC's hand to become more transparent.

Strategy requires staying on the offensive: it’s about our vision of what should be, not merely stopping the powerholders, that should be addressed. (On the conservative right they call it the difference between “deterrence activism” and “highground activism” – responding and putting out fires versus presenting only better ways of solving the problems. )

At a rally for independence in Nagaland at a notorious checkpoint, an incident sparked the women to a simple dilemma demonstration when soldiers broke up the march with live gunfire. The women at the march were mostly elders in the community and were indignant. They marched back to their villages and called the other women outside. "It's time," they announced.

Activists were trying to stop another so-called “free trade” agreement that supported big businesses. This time it was the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This was in 2001 and the text of the draft treaty, the FTAA, was secret. Aside from some top government officials and 500 accredited business representatives, nobody knew what exactly was in the text – not even US senators or Canadian members of parliament.