protests work when they - public enough to effectively shape the opinion of the mass electorate - they demonstrate enough literal constituent energy for the rep to feel accountable absent a revolution they are staged concessions to an electoral strategy (i love to protest)https://twitter.com/sylvia_nyc/status/1444841147147370500 …
re: story sharing w/o protest...at best we are appealing to the morality of the people who make decisions, and that's a tenuous-at-best strategy. absent the base it doesn't work, and the best way to demonstrate the size of the base is...probably a protest