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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To the STS community<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>From <span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Rebecca Ochoa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Administrative Support to the Direct of Public Programs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Events Coordinator and Digital Media Specialist <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>MIT Center for International Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bldg. E40-444 Tel. 617-253-8306<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cis/">http://web.mit.edu/cis/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:21.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>CIS Starr Forum </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:21.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>How to Start a Revolution</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>A film screening and discussion with the director</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:24.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Thursday, September 27, 2012</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:24.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:24.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>MIT Bldg 66-110</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>For more information:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_092712_htsar.html"><span style='color:#003FA0'>http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_092712_htsar.html</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp is one of the globe’s greatest thinkers on nonviolent revolutions. His work over the last 50 years has been groundbreaking. His seminal book, <i>From Dictatorship to Democracy</i>, has been the standard manual for leaders of ‘colour’ revolutions around the globe. He has been called the ‘Machiavelli of nonviolent struggle’, and called much worse by the regimes who have fallen as a result of his work.</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>HOW TO START A REVOLUTION reveals how Gene Sharp’s ideas work in action. The film uses extended interviews with Gene, his assistant, his followers and leaders of revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as user-generated content from around the globe, to reveal the power of nonviolent revolution on the streets. The film, from first-time director Ruaridh Arrow, profiles Gene and his followers on three continents and was filmed in 18 months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/271938762922996/">RSVP via facebook</a> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Rockwell'>Free and open to the public</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif";color:#899498'>__________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>Upcoming book talk:</span></i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Monday, October 22, 4:30 PM, Pye Conference Room, MIT Bldg E40-496</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Guest speaker: Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>