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The velveteen revolution

By Gene Sharp

From a list of 198 methods of nonviolent protest appended to From Dictatorship to Democracy, a manual by Gene Sharp, a political scientist at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston. By March 2005, when the government was overthrown, NGOs had distributed 5,000 copies to the citizens of Kyrgyzstan.

• Singing
• Silence
• Rude gestures
• Taunting officials
• Haunting officials
• Symbolic lights
• Symbolic sounds
• Collective disappearance
• Delivering symbolic objects
• Disguised disobedience
• Protest disrobings
• Lysistratic nonaction
• Destruction of own property
• Turning one's back
• Skywriting and earthwriting
• Nonviolent air raids
• Suspension of sports activities
• Staying at home
• Pilgrimages
• Removal of signs and place marks
• Hiding
• Dumping
• Satyagrahic fast
• Self-exposure to the elements
• Sit-in
• Stand-in
• Ride-in
• Wade-in
• Sick-in

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SEE ALSO: Kyrgyzstan; 1991-; Passive resistance

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