Small Acts of Resistance
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Small Acts of Resistance

How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World

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Small Acts of Resistance

How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World

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Remarkable, mischievous, inspiring—the eighty-odd stories in Small Acts of Resistance bring hidden histories to life. The courage of the people in these stories is breathtaking. 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. "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 · The singing of old folksongs hastened the collapse of an empire sustained by tanks If you think individuals are powerless to change the world, read this remarkable book and you'll surely change your mind.

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Publisher
Union Square Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781402783869
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Human Rights
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1: The Power of Many
  9. 2: Mischief with a Purpose
  10. 3: A Sporting Chance
  11. 4: Cheating the Censor
  12. 5: Foiling Vote Robbers
  13. 6: Women Say No
  14. 7: If Not Now, When?
  15. 8: Revealing Secrets
  16. 9: Personal Lives, Public Impact
  17. 10: Bearing Witness
  18. 11: Marshalling Arts
  19. 12: Just Law
  20. 13: When Walls Come Tumbling Down
  21. 14: The Power of One
  22. 15: Digital Dissent
  23. 16: In Conclusion
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Bibliography
  26. About the Authors