Revolution
About: albert einstein institution - advancing freedom through nonviolent action

I have been fascinated by Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals for some while. Last night I watched How to Start a Revolution on CurrentTV. The non-violence & the references to Gandhi were encouraging. Current TV is not; it seeming to be all about the leftovers of MSNBC & KOberman. My main concern is that the teaser (~60 minutes) seemed to be an infomercial for Gene Sharp's books or a DVD of a more complete movie. The show was using scenes from the Arab Spring to illustrate a lot of the brief ideas implying that revolution to topple dictators leads to democracy. And that Sharp was responsible for the main ideas. We are still waiting for democracy in Egypt.
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- revolution
- gene sharp
- current tv
- gandhi
Comments
1. Take time every day to absolutely nothing, while remaining awake – a.k.a. meditation.
3. Exercise every day for at least 30 minutes (some days do so more rigorously, others in a more relaxed fashion)
4. Lay down and rest during the daytime – at least once.
5. Go to bed early and wake up early – calibrate your day by cycles of nature (i.e. the sun and moon) not by the dictates of clocks and calendars.
6. Figure out a way to appreciate something of the beliefs and ways of your foes in order to avoid bitter and vengeful motivations that kill you faster than corporate injustices ever will.
7. Practice relaxing and keeping things in perspective – learning to trust that change is a natural product of time, not strenuous effort. Things may seem urgent. But, acting with a stressed sense of urgency accomplishes nothing but disease.
8. Actively participate in the cycles of nature: plant food, eat food that you planted, compost, recognize and contemplate the birth in death and the death in birth.
9. Create and/or appreciate art in any form that moves you to a sense of awestruck wonder and beauty – as opposed to the often embittered forms of angry art that activists often indulge in.
I doubt that non-violent methods work with terrorists at all.
Yes the people of Iran and North Korea can use non-violent methods against their repressive governments.


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