The New York Times reviews How to Start a Revolution
“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are. People are never as weak as they think they are.” Those hopeful words, which introduce the documentary “How to Start a Revolution,” come from the writings of Gene Sharp, one of the world’s least recognized intellectual movers and shakers. Mr. Sharp, now a frail 84 and living in a modest working-class neighborhood of Boston, is the quiet, self-effacing subject of this admiring film from the British director Ruaridh Arro
Gene Sharp: ‘suicidal’ for Syrians to use weapons - Channel 4 News
Gene Sharp’s most famous book From Dictatorship to Democracy contains 198 methods of non-violent resistance. He advocates people power and peaceful protests as alternatives to the “weapons of tyranny” used by dictators. Tattered copies of his book have been found on the streets of cities where people protested against their governments. In other countries, where the political scientist is portrayed as a dangerous CIA agent, his writings are banned. For decades the octogenaria
