http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/hot-docs-how-to-start-a-revolution-tuesday-november-15-20111111-1nb5i.html
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2167254423/How-To-Start-A-Revolution
http://aeinstein.org/organizations98ce.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1956516/

Hot Docs: How to Start a Revolution

SBS One, Tuesday, November 15, 10:05 PM

Sacha Molitorisz

November 15, 2011

Dictators have a knack for implementing their will but what happens 
when the oppressed want to return the favour? Dr Gene Sharp is a short, 
soft-spoken old bloke from Boston. If you passed him in the street you 
might think he tends orchids but you probably wouldn't guess he has 
been a key player in popular uprisings in Serbia, the Ukraine, 
Thailand, Burma, Iran, Egypt and elsewhere thanks to his writings, 
including a slim 1993 volume entitled From Dictatorship to Democracy. 
"That spread [of ideas] was really quite remarkable," Sharp says in 
this documentary. "I'm still amazed."

To undermine dictatorships, Sharp has devised 198 specific methods for 
non-violent resistance. These include adopting a single colour, 
creating an easily identifiable symbol and, of course, protesting in 
public spaces.

Other methods are more lateral, including the destruction of one's own 
property, humorous skits and pranks, singing, collective disappearance 
and reluctant and slow compliance. Eloquent resistance leaders in 
Serbia and the Ukraine reveal their debt to Sharp.

Not everyone will agree with the documentary's reverential tone - some 
argue that Sharp has received far too much credit. But however his 
contribution is quantified, he does deserve commendation. He's one of 
the good guys.

Resources:
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The documentary is available thanks to sbsNapper:

http://users.on.net/~m.elliott/s/index.html

Props to the developer!

Uploaded to the Usenet Newsgroup:

https://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?bg=alt.binaries.documentaries

Technical Details:
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The source file is encoded as Flash video (*.flv), I have not converted 
it to any other format.

The cross-platform (Windows, MacOSX, GNU/Linux) VideoLAN VLC Media 
Player will play the file on your computer:

http://www.videolan.org/

If you want to convert it to a more versatile, hardware media player 
compatible format I suggest using:

http://ffmpeg.org/

ffmpeg -i foo.flv foo.avi

*might* naively do the trick.

This is a good guide:

http://worldtv.com/blog/guides_tutorials/flv_converter.php

Rather than upload my naive conversion attempt, you have the source 
file to work with instead.

If you know how do a great, highly compatible, lossless 
transcoding / conversion, then upload that to the Usenet Newsgroup 
Binaries, thank you.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

General

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Video

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