You may want to rethink the phrasing of your thesis.
Mayhem is defined as the dismembering of a human to render her or him incapable of resisting the acts of the perpetrator. (cutting off a limb, slashing the face, etc.)
While I tend to agree that destruction of property has long been a standard approach for civil disobediance, mayhem (as defined this way) has been pretty uniformly rejected by all but the most radical and violent protestors of whatever stripe.