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

remarkable book. this is a must read book. i need 20 more words so here it is .. lalala ... la...la..la no need some more.. here

Overall quality: very good: nice font size, good paper quality ( I wonder why other book publishers don't print on such paper quality).Content: It kind of left me skeptical about the author, he claims that he trained the group of people responsible for different revolutions in the world like Egypt for instance. I really don't think that this guy overestimates what he has done. The book promises a lot but delivers normal content.

A great theoretical and practical guide to resist and win the revolution against apparently totalitarian power structures. Mr. Popovic wrote a practical guide that reads like a novel. Highly recommended.

I liked this one enough to recommend it on my book recommendations email list. My interest in this book was piqued less by any interest in revolution, geopolitics, or activism, and more by my interest in psychology and persuasion. If you know anything about humans, you've certainly shaken your head at the "strategies" of activists lately. It appears to be a series of random actions and name-calling, driven purely by emotion, with no thought given to how those actions will influence anyone in particular.I believe I heard about this book from Arnold Schwarzenegger, on his second Tim Ferriss podcast appearance. He proposed that climate activists focus on air pollution rather than "climate change." The gist being that air pollution is currently killing 7 million people per year, and you can actually see the pollution in many places – outside my window included. It's easier to persuade people to fix something currently happening to them, rather than by getting them to worry about some unknown thing that might happen at an unknown point in the future.This book is written by Srdja Popovic, who was a founder of Otpor!, an opposition group that helped engineer the overthrow of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević. It's easy to by inspired by the Egyptian revolution happening in Tahir Square, and ignore the years of small victories, coalition-building, and careful branding that preceded it. This, Popovic argues, is probably why the Occupy movement (which Popovic suggests should have been called a more inclusive "99%" movement) fizzled out in the U.S..It's an engaging read, with stories of him and his team coaching activists from places like Ukraine, Egypt, and Syria. He illustrates how to create change through humorous pranks, or by focusing strategically on something that affects a wide swath of people. For example, Otpor! released turkeys costumed as Milošević's wife so that news outlets would cover Milošević's police chasing them and looking ridiculous.He also tells stories of how focusing on cottage cheese helped fight wealth inequality in Israel, how Harvey Milk used dog poop to get people to care about gay rights, and how, as the subtitle suggests, rice pudding was used to launch a revolution in the Maldives.

Gran llibre sobre les revoltes pacífiques. Lectura obligada. Senzillament una gran reflexió. Per tots nosaltres un model a seguir. Bravo

Let's face it, this world is a beautiful place but driven by a lot of screwed up people doing things most of us would love to change. Srdja Popovic shows us, from personal experience in Serbia and a host of other people's experiences, how to launch, conduct and maintain non-violent revolutions to make the world a better place. Thank you Srdja... This is an inspiring book.