How to Start a Revolution Page #5

are both victims of the same system.

There is no reason to have war

between victims and victims.

One of the victims wear blue uniforms,

Other victims wear blue jeans,

but there is no reason for this conflict.

And this worked, really worked.

And it worked in Georgia.

It worked in Ukraine.

It worked in many other places in the world.

This is the way you do.

You go and co-opt from this course of pillars.

You dont throw stones at the police.

Lesson 4:
Resist Violence

The many people in conflict situations

that would like to use violence,

but their opponents really have more

military weapons and weapons of violence,

usually physical weapons,

than the potential resistors have,

the resistors choose to fight with violence.

Their opponent has all the advantages in that

situation because youre choosing to fight

with your opponents best weapons.

But you can choose to fight with a totally different

kind of weapon in these nonviolent forms,

which are much more

difficult for the opponent to counteract.

Big concentration tactics are

very difficult to control.

You have 20,000 peaceful demonstrators

and one idiot breaking out a window.

These people got all the media.

So this is the message which can

efficiently undermine your movement.

You would go on a march and there is a

risk of the people getting arrested,

so what would you normally do?

Instead of putting the big guys in front,

you will put the girls in front,

you will put the grandmas in front,

you will put the military veterans in front.

So the police is now faced with the friendly faces.

And these people are actually carrying

the flowers and the banners and smiling,

so you make the situation less threatening,

so you make the possibility of

a violent outcome very small.

October the 5th should be seen in the

context of successful strategy,

and that was not the day like many

spectators or media, like CNN.

They just see it as a big bunch of people,

revolution, boom, and its all over.

It was, first of all, ten years

of attempts and failures,

and two years of resistance of

Otpor, five different campaigns,

and we were setting the victory on the elections.

Serbian National Election

September 2000

In September 2000, Serbia went to the polls.

But Otpor expected Milosevic would fix the election.

We knew that Milosevic will lose,

and we knew that he will not

accept the fact that he has lost.

So around 3 pm, you hear like two

to 300,000 people on the square,

and there was a nonviolent takeover

of the physically of this building.

And this is where the people who broke

into the building, on October the 5th,

found many leaflets pre-marked for Milosevic.

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