Srdja Popovic: How to topple a dictator

2011 was a year of people-powered resistance, starting with Arab Spring and spreading across the world. How did it work? Srdja Popovic (who led the nonviolent movement that took down Milosevic in Serbia in 2000) lays out the plans, skills and tools each movement needs — from nonviolent tactics to a sense of humor. (Filmed at TEDxKrakow.)

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[gendale]

its not problem how to remove dictator, but problem is what to do after that.

[ssthbp]

Yeah, I see Serbia so happy without "dictator" Miloshevich, huh. Now we get same happiness at the Ukraine with civil war, poverty burst and regions falling apart, thanks.

[CasualSome]

OTPOR was a movement coordinated by western agency assets of which this guys is the public face to present, talk about it, etc.
Imagine a product in the package that says "Best Before: Until Milosevic is taken down" ... then 2-3 years after, they disappeared...

[Shuftyface]

yeyeye people power plus "just a little" CIA intervention

[schneiderx]

한국인 입니다. 짧지만 마음이 느껴지는 강연 잘 봤습니다. 저는 영미권 외국어를 따로 구사는 못하지만,
2016~2017년도에 성과를 보였던 한국의 '촛불 혁명'에 대해 저 자리에서 강연해볼 기회가 생긴다면 좋겠다는 생각이 들었네요.
우리는 실패적 사례도 성공적 사례도 있으며, 여러분들처럼 인종적 문제는 없지만 그 밖의 상황은 여러분들과 별반 차이는 없으며, 아직까지 세계 유일의 휴전중인 분단 국가네요!
현재 2023년도의 한국은 다시 민중이 도탄에 빠지는 우를 범해, 또 다시 투쟁중인데 전 세계의 자유와 정의를 열망하는 시민들과 이 경험, 그리고 이를 극복할 지혜를 나누고 싶어졌습니다.

[YamatoXion]

Dictators don't always = bad guys.
Gadafi is gone and only gangsters remain, people are dying and fleeing Libya and has brought instability to the country.

[galaticstrider]

I'm 37 and it's not my generation that made the mess but I'll sure as he'll be part of the clean up!

[srseki]

How to make sure that one guy throwing stone is not a undercover of the dictator or a random angry citizen?

[baranybumm]

Thanks man, its a really useful thing! - From Hungary, Budapest, from front line of revolution.

[MsSlava]

Dangerous man...very well paid to do dirty work !!!

[srjisrku]

Unfortunately this human being is my fellow citizen and he is a huge shame for Serbian nation. Proven CIA agent worked against its own country and in later years non-violent resistance "fighter" around the world. Poor human being

[marsnall]

Well you could start by going to Israel to free Palestinians, to Arabia Saudi or Pakistan... oh wait...

[goofriends]

how to do something like that in Venezuela? many things had been done already but those dictators are still in power

[alexandrabell]

I think it's amazing the things they did in Serbia in the '90. Found an AoC podcast with Srdja as a guest and he talks more about those times and how this developed into a global movement.

[billmichae]

This guy takes too much of a credit for events that would take place even without him, his friends and the money they spent.

[sovietonionisthebestonion]

I have no idea why the Syrian revolution was defeated

[beepboop]

The amount of reactionary conspiratorial nonsense in the comments is disgusting, literally look at the reasons the Arab spring started.

[dordegrujic]

A mass murderer, a man of deception and lies, a secret agency run bot who's craft of deceiving the young and naive part of the population to commit to causes not serving them but rather the elite which despise the innocent and steal their future.

Srdja, ustanes li ikada iz kreveta, pogledas se u ogledalo i dobijes, barem za milisekund osjecaj kajanja

Zao mi je mnogo
Mnogo mi je zao
Zao mi je tebe jel ces citav zivot provesti takav kakav jesi

[DeviantART]

Just another fire starter. And proud to be one. Nothing to see here.

[tvrdjna]

srki nas lepi organizuj proteste na granicama sa EU fasisti nece da prime sirote ljude koji su bukvalno zatvoreni u srbiji jadni migranti pomozi te im molim vas