No longer flying solo

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It took me a while to find out how to invite another user to the blog. I’d never even considered doing it before. Turns out it’s pretty easy.

Prepare yourselves, folks, for the new kid on the blog. With full posting privileges and (almost) ultimate control. I’m not going to let her turn the place penguin-shaped!

Expect to see some strange posts – well okay, you expect that anyway – but differently strange. Or strangely different.

CynaraeStMary is an editor on the blog now. She can post whatever she likes whenever she likes. I won’t be editing or restraining her in any way on this site. Not that I’d have any chance of restraining her anyway 😉

We can look forward to some less gloomy posts in between mine in the future.

CynaraeStMary, the blog is yours.

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      • Those who are committed to non-violent resistance might wish to read this:

        How to Topple a Dictator (Peacefully). By Tina Rosenberg. The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2015.

        “The teachers [of a weeklong class in revolution] were Srdja Popovic and Slobodan Djinovic — leaders of Otpor, a student movement in Serbia that had been instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. After then helping the successful democracy movements in Georgia and Ukraine, the two founded the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (Canvas), and have traveled the world, training democracy activists from 46 countries in Otpor’s methods… In a new book, ‘Blueprint for Revolution,’ Popovic recounts Canvas’s strategies and how people use them… Popovic cheerfully blows up just about every idea most people hold about nonviolent struggle. Here are some:

        Myth: Nonviolence is synonymous with passivity.
        ..Just the opposite, said Djinovic: “We’re here to plan a war.” Nonviolent struggle, Djinovic explained, is a war — just one fought with means other than weapons. It must be as carefully planned as a military campaign.

        Myth: The most successful nonviolent movements arise and progress spontaneously.
        No general would leave a military campaign to chance. A nonviolent war is no different.

        Myth: Nonviolent struggle’s major tactic is amassing large concentrations of people.
        This idea is widespread because the big protests are like the tip of an iceberg: the only thing visible from a distance. Did it look like the ousting of Mubarak started with a spontaneous mass gathering in Tahrir Square? Actually, the occupation of Tahrir Square was carefully planned, and followed two years of work. The Egyptian opposition waited until it knew it had the numbers. Mass concentrations of people aren’t the beginning of a movement, Popovic writes. They’re a victory lap.

        http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/a-military-manual-for-nonviolent-war/

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