Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
Movements are not the same as protests, movements have leadership that has explicitly defined asks that the followers agree with.
iirc the organizers had challenges with this, so their default asks were awareness and they got that.
George Floyd protests had more than that (closer to 8%) and they didn’t really change anything.
Movements are not the same as protests, movements have leadership that has explicitly defined asks that the followers agree with. iirc the organizers had challenges with this, so their default asks were awareness and they got that.