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Read [Steve Crawshaw, John Jackson Book] * Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World Bear said Bloodless resistance overcomes tyranny. A light yet interesting read. A number of short stories illustrate how ordinary people came together to overcomethe most brutal and oppressive regimes or policies. Their means were always non-violent and often rather humorous.The soft wears away at the hard and wins in the end.After initially writing this, I took some time t. Makes you think you can help Mindy Abraham This book is inspiring-it makes you beleive that you too, can go and change the
Title | : | Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.71 (508 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1402768079 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-02-03 |
Language | : | English |
Bear said Bloodless resistance overcomes tyranny. A light yet interesting read. A number of short stories illustrate how ordinary people came together to overcomethe most brutal and oppressive regimes or policies. Their means were always non-violent and often rather humorous.The soft wears away at the hard and wins in the end.After initially writing this, I took some time t. Makes you think you can help Mindy Abraham This book is inspiring-it makes you beleive that you too, can go and change the world for the better, or at least attempt to do so. The stories, some of which i'd heard of, some not, are very interesting to read, and I think it is important to get stories like this out there for people to see. Should be read by anyone who wa. "Such promise" according to J. Small Acts of Resistance left this reviewer with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the concept and breadth of the book was intriguing. The book covered a very interesting topic and provided a large number of examples of that topic.The book itself is largely a collection of anecdotes. It does describe instances in which people
"Powerful, uplifting, mischievous, fascinating." Mia Farrow
Remarkable, mischievous, inspiring—the eighty-odd stories in Small Acts of Resistance bring hidden histories to life. So, too, is the impact and imagination of their actions.These mostly little known stories—including those written from eyewitness experience of the events and situations described—reveal the role ordinary people have played in achieving extraordinary change. The courage of the people in these stories is breathtaking. “In the real world, it will never happen,” the skeptics love to tell us. As this book so vividly shows, the skeptics have repeatedly been proven wrong.Stories in this include how:· Strollers, toilet paper, and illegal ketchup helped end forty years of one-party Communist rule· Dogs (and what they wore) helped protestors humiliate a murderous regime· Internet videos about cuddly animals infuriated a repressive government which tried—and failed—to ban the craze· Football crowds found ways of singing the national anthem so as to defy a junta of torturers, now in jail· Women successfully put pressure on warlords to end one of Africa’s bloodiest wars· &nbs
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