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

Thanks to the wonders of technology, the merry pranksters secured a few hundred USB speakers, tiny little sticks that could play a few songs out loud. To these they uploaded popular hymns of the resistance—“Assad Is a Pig” and so on. Then they concealed the miniature speakers in the worst places they could find: rancid garbage cans, piles of manure, and anywhere else that reeked. Soon the cities were alive with the sound of music. Illegal, anti-regime music. Ordered to put an end to the forbidden songs, the cops had to find the speakers and destroy them. But to do that, they had to roll up their sleeves and shove their hands into one disgusting mess after another, all in full view of the public.