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How To Start A Revolution (2012) (trailer)

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Posted by ReadyfrTruth on Dec. 19, 2012
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Half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man.

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