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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan you say Coup d'tat?
A coup d'état (/ˌkuː deɪˈtɑː/ About this sound listen (help·info); French: [ku deta]), sometimes translated as "blow of state" or "hit of state", but the literal translation is "stroke of the state" as in the swiping or stroke of a sword; plural: coups d'état, (pronounced like the singular form), also known simply as a coup (/kuː/), putsch or an overthrow, is the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.[1]
With Total GOP Control the only difference is "legal seizure" of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus, except if you are getting help from Russia that would make it putsch or an overthrow, a illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.[1]
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(20,760 posts)Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)the new judge is Repuke and he fired all the Democrats in the DA's office. The purge has begun.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)mahina
(17,663 posts)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
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