Popovic: ‘A bad year for bad guys’

    November 28, 2011

    At a TEDx event in Kraków last month, our good friend Srdja Popovic, who was one of the leaders of Otpor—the student-led nonviolent movement that played a key role in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000—and currently runs the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in Belgrade, delivered this great introductory talk on people power that is well worth watching.

    Eric Stoner is a co-founding editor at Waging Nonviolence and an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph's College. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, Salon, The Nation, Sojourners and In These Times.

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