Revolutions don’t begin with explosions. They begin with questions.
What if the world you were handed is broken beyond repair? What if waiting for someone else to fix it has become a form of surrender? What if you are the one meant to spark the change?

In A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Revolution, [Author Name] delivers a bold, unflinching manual for those who have run out of patience. Drawing on the successes—and failures—of historic uprisings, underground movements, and contemporary activism, this book dismantles the myth that revolutions are spontaneous or elite-driven. Instead, it presents a step-by-step, street-level roadmap for ordinary people to challenge power, shift systems, and survive the consequences.

Inside, you’ll find:

Revolutionary Readiness: Understand the emotional, psychological, and social costs of radical action. This is not for the faint-hearted—but it is for the clear-eyed.
The Anatomy of Power: Learn how governments, corporations, and media maintain control, and where the cracks in those systems can be exploited.
Identifying Pressure Points: From housing and education to digital freedom and racial justice—how to target structures that hold the greatest impact with the least resistance.
Building Infrastructure: Forming cells, councils, and networks; how to decentralize power, practice mutual aid, and keep momentum when the spotlight fades.
Narrative Warfare: Controlling the story of your revolution through media, symbolism, and culture—because perception is power.
Direct Action vs. Disruption: When to march, when to strike, when to hack, and when to simply show up in a way that changes everything.
Protecting Your Movement: Counter-surveillance, digital security, legal aid, and crisis response—how to keep your revolution alive when it's under attack.

Throughout the guide, readers will encounter case studies from diverse corners of the globe—from Zapatista communities in Chiapas and Hong Kong's umbrella movement, to Black liberation struggles and climate justice campaigns—each one offering lessons in resilience, strategy, and adaptation.

Whether you're looking to organize a protest, lead a walkout, launch an underground publication, or dismantle a system from within, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Revolution is the unapologetic, fearless companion you didn’t know you needed.

This is not a book about if change is possible.
It’s a book about how to make it unavoidable.

A Beginners Guide to Starting a Revolution

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Oleana Treat & Mildred Aviani
Mildred Avani

Strategist. Educator. Reluctant Firebrand.

Mildred Avani never planned to become a revolutionary. Born to schoolteachers in Milwaukee, she grew up believing that knowledge—and dialogue—could heal most wounds. But after witnessing the dismantling of public education, the privatization of civic life, and the quiet, systemic erasure of marginalized voices, she knew that words alone weren’t enough.

A political theorist by training and community organizer by necessity, Mildred has spent the past twenty years developing grassroots resistance models, from anti-eviction networks in the Midwest to youth-led abolitionist movements in the South. Her academic background in systems thinking and power analysis gives her a sharp edge in deciphering the invisible machinery that upholds inequality—and finding ways to dismantle it.

She has been jailed twice for civil disobedience, tear-gassed more times than she can count, and once helped hijack a corporate shareholder meeting with only a projector and a poem. She still believes, despite everything, in the transformative power of collective action and beautifully designed protest signage.

Oleana Treat

Artist. Hacker. Cultural Saboteur.

Oleana Treat is a provocateur by design and a revolutionary by birthright. Raised on a remote anarchist commune in Northern California, she grew up on a steady diet of mutual aid, stolen radio signals, and the poetry of resistance. She is a digital guerrilla with a background in cyber-activism, protest art, and media disruption.

After gaining notoriety in the early 2010s for hijacking a global advertising campaign with a viral street art campaign, Oleana became a cult figure in radical circles. She’s been credited with co-founding “Signal to Noise,” a covert art-activism collective, and orchestrating several symbolic takedowns of institutions ranging from oil companies to state surveillance agencies.

Oleana’s work bridges the worlds of spectacle and strategy—equal parts Banksy and Sun Tzu. Her contributions to A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Revolution bring fire, humor, and a deep understanding of how narrative control is the frontline of modern resistance.

She lives off-grid somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, but somehow always shows up where the spark is about to ignite.

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