For successful nonviolent revolution (deposing a tyrant, as in the Philippines, Poland, India, South Africa, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Serbia, (we really have many examples now), the following are needed:

• Large numbers of demonstrators.
• Trust that colleagues will not betray you.
• Communications (the cartoon “What can one man/woman do.)
• Imaginative planning (cf. Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha, Prague 1968).
• Persuading bystanders (general population).
• Persuading police and army.
• Capturing media, or using moving/hidden radios.
• Acting “as if” change has aleady been achieved.
• Refraining from violence, of course.
• Guarding against interlopers, spoilers, looters.
• Persisting for a long time, i.e. patience.
• Maintaining contact with opponents.
• Transparence – no secrets.