Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic & Matthew Miller

Author:Srdja Popovic & Matthew Miller [Popovic, Srdja]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Human Rights, Political Process, Peace, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780812995312
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-03T11:47:24.442533+00:00

In order to make oppression backfire, it pays to know which of the pillars of power you can use to bolster your case. In Burma, the heavy-handed reaction to Ashin Kovida’s march cost the regime the support of the crucial religious pillar. Kovida wisely bet that the monks would eventually overcome any other opposing faction, and even though many were killed and many more arrested, the junta proved powerless against the monks because the men of the cloth won the sympathy of an intensely pious population by enduring their oppression with grace and fortitude. In Serbia, we took a very similar bet on provincial doctors: with the corrupt socialized national health system, people, particularly in small towns, depended on their local family doctors for every health-related issue imaginable. For that reason, in those regions Serbs revered their doctors, and on a practical level the regime simply couldn’t touch them. All you had to do to make oppression backfire in those places was convert a handful of doctors to your cause and watch as the police struggled to follow orders on one hand and respect their beloved physicians on the other.

Believing that change can happen to you, dreaming big and starting small, having a vision of tomorrow, practicing laughtivism, and making oppression backfire: these are the foundations of every successful nonviolent movement. But like every building, the foundations aren’t enough. Unless a solid structure is erected slowly and deliberately, the whole thing is likely to collapse. And the first thing you need for a house to stand united is for everyone to work in unity.

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