Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world

by Srdja Popovic

They also had to deal with Ping-Pong balls. Thousands of them. The trouble all began when a group of Syrian activists started inscribing anti-Assad slogans like “Freedom” and “Enough” on masses of Ping-Pong balls, which they then dumped out of huge garbage bags on to the narrow—and steep—streets of Damascus.