After reading this book, http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf I wonder how different the outcome of the Occupy Movement might have been if they'd followed Gene Sharp's blueprint.
The book has been translated into several languages and can be found on Gene's website:
http://fromdictatorshiptodemocracy.org/
The way things are going, this information could come in handy.
It appears to be very well written and would put me well past my small understanding of dictatorships. I feel like the US is under a kind of dictatorship-by-proxy where people are briefly fooled into trusting the authenticity of our leaders. As I heard it put recently, we have awakened to find America has been taken in a quiet coup by corporations. By the unrelenting simplicity of greed.