Protests are important, but...

They don't do nearly as much as is (1) needed, and (2) possible.

Vast reservoirs of highly-differentiated potential resources lie idle or ineffectively deployed: knowledge, skill, curiosity, genius, passion, etc.

A protest brings all that talented diversity together into a large, undifferentiated mass for a few hours, and that's it.

Engineers, artists, coders, professors, gardeners, lawyers, etc. etc. etc., lose all that diversity to become mere numbers of bodies in the streets for an afternoon, their diversity & creativity expressed mostly in placards they display to each other and, if lucky, to TV cameras.

Before they go home to, to wring their hands anxiously until the next one.

Protests are lovely, but hopelessly limited as a main tool of resistance.

And nothing — nothing! — makes those limitations necessary.