#4 Bringing Down a Dictator

Session Four:  “Bringing Down a Dictator”

Music: "Miss Sarajevo," Bono, The Edge, Brian Eno, Pavarotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYX9Z74RoA

Essential Questions:

• What were the non violent techniques used by Otpor to overthrow Milosevic?

• What do military and non violent campaigns have in common?

• How effective were the non violent techniques?

Rick's Rap

Gathering:  "In order for a non violent movement to be successful it must have____"

Video: “Bringing Down a Dictator”, from A Force More Powerful  , 2002 www.aforcemorepowerful.com
           • Debrief:

Closing: Reflective Sentence Starter

Readings: 

1) Steve York, "Col. Robert Helvey on Strategic Non violence, Popular Resistance.org Link to article

Resources

(1) Nathan Stoltzfus, “The Women’s Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Berlin,” http://www.rosenstrasse-protest.de/texte/texte_stoltzfus.html
(2)  Nadine Boch, “Wooden Legs, paper clips and ice fronts – resistance to the 3^rd Reich,” Waging Non Violence, 4/19/13 http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/wooden-legs-paper-clips-and-ice-fronts-resistance-to-the-third-reich/


"Power should be in the hands of the people, not people in the hands of power."
     graffiti on the  Prijedor, Bosnia town hall , 1998