The Anti-Coup by Gene Sharp is available for free download or purchase

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The Anti-Coup by Gene Sharp, formerly of the UH Matsunaga Peace Institute and now at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, is a manual on how to effectively resist a coup. It is available for free at the AEI link here. http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TAC-1.pdf You can also buy a copy. I loaned mine out and need to use the pdf. It's a short read, @ 60 pages.

Films are available at http://www.aeinstein.org/films/. Though Tahrir Square and Syria efforts failed, this is important knowledge.

To those who feel hope fading, please remember Solidarity in Soviet occupied Poland, the anti-apartheid resistance in South Africa, resistance to the Nazis in Denmark during its occupation WWII, and the defeat of Pinochet in Chile among many other cases in which non-violent resistance prevailed.
Table of contents:

How Coups Operate
When are coups likely to occur?
Attempts to prevent coups
Coups have been defeated
Germany 1920
France 1961
The Soviet Union 1991

Anti-coup defense
The putschists require...
Direct defense of society
The need for preparations
The civilian defenders' aims
Resistance: general and organized
Treatment of the usurpers' troops and functionaries
Facing attack: obstruction and communication
Facing attack: repudiation and rejection
Blocking control by putschists
Defying repression and intimidation
The importance of nonviolent discipline
International support
Shifts in strategy during the struggle
A durable success
In case of need for long-term defense
Collapsing the coup
Deterring coups d'etat
Promoting anti-coup defense
Preparations by civil institutions
Government initiated preparations
Possible legislation and other plans to mobilize defense
Other types of preparations
Consequences of an anti-coup defense

Appendix one
Legislation and other Governmental preparations for Anti-coup defense

Appendix two
Preparations by the Civil Society for Anti-coup defense
1. Public education
2. Media
3. Specific groups and institutions

[PoliticAverse]

1. You need to remove the period at the end of your URL link. n/t

[mahina]

2. Thank you. I didn't key that in. Did you find the link useful?

I understand that people are leery of links...I am as well. This is a good one.

Interestingly, I had posted it to DU prior to the hack. I'd posted it here before as well.

Onward!