democracy

From Dictatorship to Democracy

After reading this book, http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf I wonder how different the outcome of the Occupy Movement might have been if they'd followed Gene Sharp's blueprint.

The book has been translated into several languages and can be found on Gene's website:

http://fromdictatorshiptodemocracy.org/

 

The way things are going, this information could come in handy.

This is What Democracy Looks Like

Shot by over 100 media activists, this film tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organisation summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO’s power to arbitrarily overrule nations’ environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protesters from all around came out in force to stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as a minority of destructively overzealous comrades.

Kucinich: Obama's Libya Attack "Impeachable Offense"

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