Gene Sharp's Revolution

The first link is a trailer to the film "How to start a Revolution" About Gene Sharp's work The second link is the film "How to Start a Revolution" About Gene Sharp's work in action

A revolution 

Without a drop of bloodshed 

is worth fighting for 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVqgde1We8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1t4Fif2c0

Author's Note

I've witnessed violent revolution. It's brutal, ugly and ineffective. Non Violent Rebellion is the only viable solution to the new feudal class system we've been forced into in the 21st century. We have to do something or get trampled on by massive corporations and the politicians they've bought. Is 10 dollars an hour (if they actually raise the minimum wage) your fondest dream or do you want something more/ Get organized, be heard and be counted. The Tea Party wing nuts pulled it off and so can we. Lets do this

Reviews

[Chris Micha]

You're definitely deeply rooted in politics and you always have a taunt message!

[Baby Ricochet]

I get into politics to much and get all worked up about it. I don't know how good that is. Thanks for stopping by Christian. I appreciate it

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks for sharing this. You really have a mind for all this -- I know it's hard to change things from within the system, but I think you could.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you KL

[icelandicblue]

Nonviolent revolution, reminds me of Gandhi and MLK. It really is the only way to real and lasting change. I'm going to check it out. We need to throw off the blanket of acceptance and apathy and show the 1% ers that we want some of the 22% they acquired during the recession back. Thanks BR

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Blue

[A. Amos]

Good one baby, short yet very meaningful...

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Amos

[Mark]

What is it about the tea party that makes liberals foam at the mouth? LOL I'll check out these links but from what you've said, sounds like tea party ideas to me!

[Baby Ricochet]

I have family involved in the Tea party. I'm from the rural south so go figure. What motivates them isn't liberty, it's racism and homophobia. Two of the Multitude of reasons I couldn't leave my home town behind fast enough. It's obvious tea Party are the Koch Brothers foot soldiers. A big piece of evidence being the denial of global warming. What vested interest does the tea party rank and file have in denying overwhelming scientific evidence to climate change? Their backers sure as s**t have a vested interest. What vested interest would the tea party rank and file have in attacking the affordable healthcare act when it would provide cheaper insurance to the working class (whom the vast majority of them are) but their backers sure as s**t do. Tea Party candidates have proven to be just as anti female, anti gay, anti black, anti Latino, anti union, poverty shaming, pro religious right, pro big corporation at the expense of the working class as their patron saint Reagan was. The Tea party is a good example of how to generate a movement based on conspiracy theories, Xenophobia and hysteria with a s**t load of money from a gang of gazzilionaires who want to shape the world in their image with them as the overlords. It's pretty obvious

[Mark]

Surely there are bigots in this movement, but mostly it's people who are just fed up with the power the federal government has. As to the ahca... it's funny how 6 million people who lost their coverage is a small number but 7 million sign ups is a huge success. It's all politics. The act does nothing about
health care reform it just forces so.e of us to pay more and gives others a reason to depend on the federal government. True reform needs to start with breaking the power big Pharma and the AMA has over the system. But to do that we have to go after big business AND big government. Anything less
just adds layers of bureaucracy to an already bloated political money machine.

[Baby Ricochet]

That's true about breaking the power of big pharma and the AMA. So far as I'm concerned the affordable health care act didn't go far enough. Everyone in this great nation should have access to quality health care. What concerns me the most is what kind of world will this be in 100 years. The wealth gap in this world couldn't be more obvious and if you've ever looked into the research on climate change it's pretty dire and the only "scientists" that are disputing it all have jobs for the corporations that are creating the problem. Just like when the "scientists" for big tobacco stood up in senate hearings and said they believed cigarette smoking wasn't a health hazard. Are we actually going to fall for that line again? I don't see anyone on the democratic side of the isle denying climate change or trying to shove legislation into a woman's uterus or shaming poor people or trying to criminalize homosexuality or arguing for more deregulation of a financial system that clearly ripped the developed world off in the mortgage and banking fiasco of 2008 and my all time favorite far right Fiasco. It was the Neoconservatives in Bush's cabinet who masterminded and executed the invasion and occupation of Iraq and we all know what a f*****g fabulous idea that was. Trust the Republicans to try to solve everything with tax cuts, massive deficits and invading countries with a shitload of oil and an angry as f**k local population
who don't take kindly to having the s**t bombed out of them

[Mark]

I'm just saying the two parties are the ONE party with two faces. They all go to CFR meetings and conjur up the next big scam to hoodwink the American people, and most of us are more interested in the next episode of Walking Dead, or what the Kardashians are going to do, or who's going to win tonight's game then they are in changing government. For every nasty thing the Republicans have done I can match it with what the Democrats did. As for health care for everyone. Everyone should have a house to live in, food to eat, and free medical care. However, who is going to provide it? Uncle Sam, and once he has all of us sucking down his handouts, the easier it will be to control us and make us into slaves.

[Baby Ricochet]

I agree with you to a point on the one party with two faces idea but the Far right has put a clown mask on the Republican party and yes voter apathy is a massive problem in this country. The far right is losing culture war at a breath taking pace so they're rhetoric is getting hysterical. A symbol for the right's culture war woes is the flush rush campaign to force him off the air (I have mixed feelings about that. When does misinformation and hate speech trump freedom of speech? I don't know. If I had all the answers I'd write a Goddamn book. I feel like I'm writing one now) Rush is the god father of the new right wing media machine and if flush Rush is
successful in forcing him off the airways it would be a humiliating defeat for the far right and it might just happen.

[Mark]

The Moral Right is what you are talking about. Completely agree about Rush. He's the one who should be wearing a clown suit, why people take that bozo seriously is beyond me. Should put him and Michael Moore in a sumo wrestling match. Havent' heard about flush rush, but I can only read so many media reports right? I'll look it up.

[Baby Ricochet]

Micheal Moore's not one of my favorites either. The Flush Rush campaign started in earnest after Rush's Sandra Flukes Tirade back in 2012. They've been monitoring him closely and spooking sponsors off his time slot simply by relaying the slanderous bullshit he slings back to the sponsors. The Flush Rush been quite successful at it losing Rush millions of dollars in advertising. That's why he's down to selling penile pump implants on his show now. Fox Pundits have John Stewart making them look like buffoons on the Daily show and MSNBC has copied Fox format mostly by bitching about FOX and CNN is still looking for that airliner so yeah, we could use some real journalism in the mainstream.

[Vidya Bacchus]

Powerful lines there Baby.If only those in authority thought that wisely.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Vidya

[Vidya Bacchus]

You are welcome Baby :)

[AYVID N]

Very impressive line Baby. Thanks for sharing.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Divya