[3] Inspired by the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM), WAC conducted protests, sit-ins, and educational campaigns and viewed civil disobedience as a mode of direct action.
"[6] Their first action took place six days after that meeting at a sexual assault trial involving students from St. John's University.
[7] By 1992 there were about five hundred members, meeting at the Southern Exposure Gallery and speak about future creative ways they could implement their actions towards the importance of the rights of women.
[7] They started a marathon run in favor of the rights of women,[7] and letter writing campaigns, rallies, marches, guerrilla postering, spray-painting, and contributing to the defense of abortion clinics.
[7] Their actions saved the community from Governor Pete Wilson's plan to cut aid to families who had dependent children.
[7] After the first year the number of members began to decline, falling to about 50 members.They were forced to move their meeting location to a small office space that was shared by another feminist group.
[7] The rise and fall of The Women's Action Coalitions is considered part of the third wave of feminism.