100 Acts of Minor Dissent

By Mark Thomas

100 Acts of Minor Dissent is a hilarious account of an entire year spent living provocatively.
From successful campaigns against Royal Parks and multinationals, to arts and crafts with porn mags, from annoying estate agents, to raising cinema workers' wages, comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas stopped at nothing.
The Acts were sometimes bold, sometimes surreal. Many brought about change and others were done for the sheer hell of it. Whether at the gates of the Saudi Arabian embassy or the checkout at Tesco - people reacted with laughter, shock, outrage and occasionally anger. Sometimes all of the above.
100 Acts of Minor Dissent makes for dangerously inspiring reading.
Please note this is a fixed-format ebook with colour images and may not be well-suited for older e-readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: September Publishing
• Release date: Jun 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781910463079

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is the founder and president of Escoute Consulting, an IT governance consultancy focusing on helping enterprises realise benefits through risk and resource optimisation. As a nationally known ITIL and COBIT expert with more than 20 years of professional experience, Mark’s background spans leadership roles from data centre chief information officer (CIO) to management and IT consulting. Mark has led large teams in outsourced IT arrangements, conducted project management office (PMO), service management and governance activities for major project teams, and managed enterprise applications implementations across multiple industries. Mark has an array of industry experience in the healthcare, finance, manufacturing, services, high technology and government verticals. When he’s not travelling, Mark lives with his family in the Kansas City, MO, area and claims to be a ‘certified’ barbeque judge in his spare time.

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[parthurbook · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Laugh-out lound funny on virtually every page; provocation and human insight in every chapter. Aspects of our society that I will never see through the same lenses again. Book heckles must be made compulsory in WHSmith.

[michael5rimmer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Just in case you're wondering, the Acts of Dissent pictured on the cover are, from left to right:1: Smashing a papiér maché piñata of Nick Clegg with a copy of the Tory/Liberal Coalition Agreement sticking out of its paper buttocks;2: Women racing pink Barbie remote control cars outside the Saudi Arabian embassy;3: Taking an in-your-face photograph of a police officer every weekday for a year;4: Sticking Margaret Thatcher's face into porn mags and putting them back on the shelves;5: Posting heavy things to major corporations without stamps so they have to pay excess postage;6: Playing "Whats the Time, Mr Wolf?" in Hyde Park to protest the introduction of fees for playing organised sports.Excellent book - I recommend it for a laugh and potential ideas! (Though Mark Thomas's idea of 'minor' is questionable in some cases!)