[Sci-tech-public] Upcoming event: 'How to Start a Revolution"

[Judy Spitzer]

To the STS community

 

>From Rebecca Ochoa

Administrative Support to the Direct of Public Programs

Events Coordinator and Digital Media Specialist  

MIT Center for International Studies

Bldg. E40-444    Tel. 617-253-8306

http://web.mit.edu/cis/ 

 

CIS Starr Forum 

How to Start a Revolution

A film screening and discussion with the director

 

Thursday, September 27, 2012

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

MIT Bldg 66-110

For more information:

 <http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_092712_htsar.html>
http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_092712_htsar.html

 

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, From Dictatorship to Democracy, 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. 

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.

RSVP via facebook <http://www.facebook.com/events/271938762922996/>  

Free and open to the public

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 Upcoming book talk:

Monday, October 22, 4:30 PM, Pye Conference Room, MIT Bldg E40-496

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Guest speaker: Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT  

 

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