London Thinks: How to Topple a Dictator

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015 - Wednesday, 8 April 2015
7.30pm

Tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize and hailed as a world-changer by everyone from the World Economic Forum to Wired magazine, fifteen years ago Srdja Popovic was more interested in punk rock than political protest.

In conversation with Nick Cohen he will explain how he became one of the leaders of Otpor! - the movement which overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic - and has since gone on to train the pro-democracy activists behind the Arab Spring, Occupy, and many other movements. Drawing on his new book, Blueprint for Revolution, he will tell the stories of 'ordinary revolutionaries' he has been inspired by along the way, many of whom  have created social change by avoiding violence and opting for something far more powerful - a sense of humour.

Tickets: £15 (£5 concessions and Conway Hall Ethical Society members).
Organiser: Conway Hall Ethical Society

Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Click here for more details from the Conway Hall website.

 

Photo credit: Oliver Mark

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