Gene Sharp How to Start a Revolution (2011) video ebooks

Gene Sharp How to Start a Revolution (2011) video ebooks A Big Indy Production Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world’s dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime. Few people outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’, a 93-page, 198-step guide to toppling dictators, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters living under authoritarian regimes who yearn for democratic freedom. His ideas have taken root in places as far apart as Burma, Thailand, Bosnia, Estonia, Iran, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and now in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as old orders crumble amidst the protests of their disgruntled citizens. This new film How to Start a Revolution reveals how Gene’s ideas work in action. The film uses extended interviews with Gene himself, his assistant, his followers and leaders of revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as user-generated content from around the globe, to reveal the power of nonviolent revolution on the streets. The film, from first-time director Ruaridh Arrow, profiles Gene and his followers on three continents and has been filmed over the last 18 months. Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp is one of the globe’s greatest thinkers on nonviolent revolutions. His work over the last 50 years has been groundbreaking. His seminal book, ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’ has been the standard manual for leaders of ‘colour’ revolutions around the globe – it lists 198 steps to nonviolent regime change. He has been called the ‘Machiavelli of nonviolent struggle’, and called much worse by the regimes who have fallen as a result of his work. His book is available free online and has been translated into over 40 languages. His methods have been used in democratic struggles in the Balkans, throughout Eastern Europe in Georgia, the Ukraine, in Indonesia, Burma and Iran. In 2009 the Iranian government charged protesters with following Gene Sharp’s tactics; the Tehran Times reported: According to the indictment a number of the accused “confessed that the post-election unrest was preplanned and the plan was following the timetable of the velvet revolution to the extent that over 100 stages of the 198 steps of Gene Sharp were implemented in the foiled velvet revolution.” How to Start a Revolution profiles Gene Sharp and his ally Retired U.S. Army Colonel Robert Helvey, who has used Gene’s methods to train activists as far afield as Venezuela, Burma and Belgrade, together with a number of the key leaders of nonviolent revolutions around the world all of who testify to the power of Gene’s work in practice. The film climaxes as the current insurrection in Egypt testifies to the power of Gene’s work as the action as unfolds on the streets of Cairo. Throughout the film is illustrated with user-generated content of protesters and activists filmed on mobile phones in the street in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Serbia and elsewhere in the world. First-hand testimony from key players the Serbian revolution in 2010 to activists involved in the abortive Iranian social unrest in 2010 reveals a decade of Gene Sharp’s work in action on the streets of Belgrade and Tehran. How to Start a Revolution is a portrait of how one man’s thinking has contributed to the liberation of millions of oppressed people living under some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world and how his work in direct action and civil disobedience continues to be used today to topple dictators using the sheer force of nonviolent people power. About Gene Sharp, the Man Behind the Word Born January 1928 in Ohio. Author of 13 books. Jailed for nine months in 1953-4 for protesting against conscription of young men to fight in Korean War. Albert Einstein wrote the foreword to his first book – Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power: Three Case Histories – published in 1960. His 1968 Oxford University D Phil, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, formed the basis of a book with the same title, published in 1973. Professor (now emeritus professor) of political science at the University of Massachusetts, since 1972. Simultaneously held research positions at Harvard University for many years. Founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the use of nonviolent action in conflict around the world. http://www.aeinstein.org https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gene-Sharp/53271776000 ebooks: 198 Methods.pdf Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions.pdf Civilian Based Defense English.pdf Civilian Based Defense in a New Era, English.pdf FDTD French From Dictatorship to Democracy.pdf FDTD From Dictatorship to Democracy.pdf FDTD German From Dictatorship to Democracy.pdf How Nonviolent Struggle Works.pdf Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961, English.pdf Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal, English.pdf National Security Through Civilian Based Defense, English.pdf Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia, English.pdf Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania.pdf Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany, English.pdf OSNC.pdf PNVA Excerpts for Self Liberation.pdf Self Liberation.pdf Social Power excerpts for Self Liberation.pdf The Anti-Coup, TAC.pdf The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle, English.pdf There Are Realistic Alternatives, TARA.pdf Toward Research and Theory Building in the Study of Nonviolent Action.pdf Tyranny Could Not Quell Them.pdf WNS, Excerpts for Self Liberation.pdf comment: The smashing up of Yugoslavia had been planned by the global elite already back in the seventies, according to Jordan Maxwell. Most of those colored revolutions in Eastern Europe had been financed by western governmental organizations (NGOs), see George Soros, CIA, etc. The destabilization of the Ukraine has been financed by the CIA, funnelling billions of dollars to NGOs and rebels operating in that country. Gene Sharp may not work for the CIA, but this doesn't prevent the CIA from using his books and his strategies for their own ends. Why use violence if you can use nonviolent means to suppress the whole world? tags: revolution, nonviolent, CIA, overthrow, government, struggle, politics, history, war, violence