Speaker 1: Section thirty six of the Anti Coup. This is a
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Speaker 1: The Antiku by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins, Appendix two.
Speaker 1: Preparations by the civil society for anti coup defense cou
Speaker 1: DETA are less likely to be attempted and more likely
Speaker 1: to be defeated if the institutions of civil society are
Speaker 1: prepared and able to resist any attempted seizure of the state.
Speaker 1: This defense would be prepared and waged by the non
Speaker 1: governmental organizations and associations, educational institutions, economic organizations, communications and
Speaker 1: transportation bodies, religious organizations and institutions, and other bodies. This
Speaker 1: resistance action by civil society may be waged either in
Speaker 1: support of planned governmental defense measures, or in their absence,
Speaker 1: may be waged independently and directly at the initiative of
Speaker 1: the citizenry. In either case, advanced preparations for anti coup
Speaker 1: resistance by the society's independent institutions are likely to make
Speaker 1: any coup plotters think twice before attempting such an attack.
Speaker 1: If they nevertheless attempt at putish these preparations would increase
Speaker 1: the power of the anti coup defense. These preparations and
Speaker 1: resistance can be grouped roughly into five types of activity
Speaker 1: one public education, two media, three political organizations, four religious institutions,
Speaker 1: and five specific groups and institutions. One public education. The
Speaker 1: tasks of these non governmental bodies would include education their
Speaker 1: members and the general citizenry about effective means to reject
Speaker 1: as illegitimate any usurpers, and how to wage widespread non
Speaker 1: cooperation and defiance of the Buddhist's efforts to govern. The
Speaker 1: aim would be to make illegitimate controls and rule impossible.
Speaker 1: While all institutions of civil society should participate in these
Speaker 1: efforts to educate their own members, certain institutions would be
Speaker 1: especially suitable for reaching the general public. These would include
Speaker 1: the formal educational system and various branches of the media,
Speaker 1: such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the internet, and the cinema.
Speaker 1: The political content of such public education measures would include
Speaker 1: both one the importance of denying legitimacy to any poo
Speaker 1: and two the importance of non cooperation and defiance to
Speaker 1: make it impossible for them to establish and maintain their
Speaker 1: illegitimate rule. In addition to explicit instructions on how to resist,
Speaker 1: documentaries and film dramas about cases of earlier anti coup
Speaker 1: resistance could be used. Information on consequences in other countries
Speaker 1: of the failure to resist ACCOUDATA could also be important.
Speaker 1: The public will need to be informed about the characteristics
Speaker 1: of non violent struggle, including its mini methods and the
Speaker 1: way it operates in conflicts. At times, open street demonstrations
Speaker 1: may be useful to communicate opposition to an illegal seizure
Speaker 1: of the state. However, at other times such action as
Speaker 1: street marches toward the guns of the pouchus's troops may
Speaker 1: be most unwise. Such action may lead not only to
Speaker 1: mass of casualties, but also strike fear into the public
Speaker 1: and therefore submission. Because of these situations, the public must
Speaker 1: be informed well in advance of the crisis about alternative
Speaker 1: forms of protest and defiance that are less obviously dangerous,
Speaker 1: but that make popular opposition unmistakably clear. For example, if
Speaker 1: the mass of the urban population for specified periods simply
Speaker 1: stayed indoors in their homes, schools, or other buildings, the
Speaker 1: streets will be largely empty of people and therefore not
Speaker 1: be suitable shooting ranges to kill and intimidate resistors. The
Speaker 1: empty streets will, however, communicate widespread opposition. Two Media, the
Speaker 1: members of society's media. Journalists, newspaper and magazine editors, radio
Speaker 1: and television reporters and directors, printing unions, communication aids and
Speaker 1: the like can organize advanced resistance against Akoudata. This would
Speaker 1: include plans to resist csorship by the poochists, plans to
Speaker 1: communicate messages from the constitutional government to the general citizenry,
Speaker 1: and plans to refuse to communicate messages from the poochists
Speaker 1: to the population. In addition, media personnel can make advanced
Speaker 1: preparations for communications in case they lose their operational centers
Speaker 1: or must go into hiding if the pouchists take control
Speaker 1: of the society's media apparatus. Printers, unions, radio operators and
Speaker 1: others can claim mechanical failures and inability to carry out
Speaker 1: the poochist's instructions. Plans for underground printing presses and secret
Speaker 1: radio broadcasting capacity can also be developed. Preparations to broadcasts
Speaker 1: from neighboring countries can be arranged as well. All of
Speaker 1: these actions will significantly limit the legitimacy and control that
Speaker 1: people could give to coup leaders, because those leaders will
Speaker 1: be unable to exercise full control over the information to
Speaker 1: which the society has access, and the defenders will be
Speaker 1: able to communicate widely among themselves and with the public.
Speaker 1: Three political organizations, both political parties and nonpartisan organizations devoted
Speaker 1: to advancing their social, economic, and political agendas should include
Speaker 1: in their missions efforts at educating their members and the
Speaker 1: public as to the importance and methods of anti coup defense.
Speaker 1: Their prior organizational contacts and networks can also help significantly
Speaker 1: in communicating guidance about needed resistance and conducting the anti
Speaker 1: coup defense. Four religious institutions. Religious and moral leaders and
Speaker 1: groups should urge their believers in supporters to regard a
Speaker 1: coup as an attack on constitutional democracy that is both
Speaker 1: immoral and a violation of the codes of behavior by
Speaker 1: which their adherents and believers should live. Consequently, if such
Speaker 1: an attack occurs, those religious and moral leaders and groups
Speaker 1: should urge their believers in supporters to apply their beliefs
Speaker 1: by refusing to give any legitimacy to the puchists, refusing
Speaker 1: all cooperation with an obedience to them and instead by
Speaker 1: participating actively in the anti cou defense five specific groups
Speaker 1: and institutions. The members of officials of individual groups and
Speaker 1: institutions in the society could also organize around preventing the
Speaker 1: pouchists from controlling the areas of the society that they operate.
Speaker 1: For example, members of civil society who work in transportation,
Speaker 1: economic activities, mass media, communications, religious institutions, and all other
Speaker 1: major functioning components and services of the society need to
Speaker 1: prepare and apply non cooperation and defiance to retain their
Speaker 1: independence from pouchists. It will be highly important for these
Speaker 1: bodies and institutions to block attempts by the pouchists or
Speaker 1: their supporters to seize internal control of these bodies and institutions.
Speaker 1: Attackers may also even attempt to destroy these independents groups
Speaker 1: and institutions and replace them with new institutions controlled by
Speaker 1: the pouchas or their collaborators. Those efforts, too, will need
Speaker 1: to be defeated. The citizens and their non governmental institutions
Speaker 1: should launch preparations and in a crisis, should initiate actual resistance.
Speaker 1: This anti coup resistance could be in accordance with an
Speaker 1: advanced governmental anti coup defense plan, or as noted earlier,
Speaker 1: could be launched independently if no such plan has been prepared.
Speaker 1: Those population groups and institutions that operate or control important social, economic, political,
Speaker 1: or industrial functions will usually be more skilled in determining
Speaker 1: what specific forms of non cooperation and defiance may be
Speaker 1: most effective in keeping that area of the society out
Speaker 1: of the control of usurpers than the theorists of such resistance.
Speaker 1: A few examples follow One. Transportation workers, such as truck drivers,
Speaker 1: railroad employees, or airline operators, are likely to be far
Speaker 1: more skilled in determining how best to slow or paralyze
Speaker 1: the transportation system and to keep it out of the
Speaker 1: hands of the pouchas than staff in a government office.
Speaker 1: They are also likely to be more skilled in knowing how,
Speaker 1: despite partial paralysis by resistors or blockages of transportation by pouchas,
Speaker 1: to move food and other important supplies to places where
Speaker 1: they are most needed. Two. In the communications field, as
Speaker 1: long as cell phones and email systems are still operating,
Speaker 1: they can be used creatively to help communication resistance plans,
Speaker 1: to initiate resistance activities, and to report the status of
Speaker 1: Poochus controls and resistance struggle. Reserve broadcast equipment that has
Speaker 1: been hidden away for an emergency can be used for
Speaker 1: defense purposes even when government offices or previous broadcasting stations
Speaker 1: have been occupied. Three Civil servants and government offices can
Speaker 1: continue to function independently even if their directors have joined
Speaker 1: the Poochists. In addition to open defiance, civil servants can
Speaker 1: also quietly resist the coup through bureaucratic slowness, misfiling important papers,
Speaker 1: and similar non provocative but effective activities that limit the
Speaker 1: pouchus control. Four Labor unions can defiantly refuse to follow
Speaker 1: Poochus's efforts to direct economic activities, and can continue those
Speaker 1: activities that have been prohibited whatever the poochus leaders, collaborating administrators,
Speaker 1: or corporation officials may say. Five Special days that honor persons, events,
Speaker 1: or principles of significance to the nation and to the
Speaker 1: democratic resistors may be observed even when the poochas spanned them,
Speaker 1: and new such days may be instituted to honor events
Speaker 1: or casualties of the anti coup resistance. End of Section
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