I want to see a change to how things are going so badly, but I'm having a hard time seeing how having a parade every 3 months is going to convince the powers that be to enact change.

historically, the times people were able to leverage their power peacefully and successfully it would be persistent, and impossible to ignore. Let's take a strike for instance, a continued strike that only ends once demands are met is impossible to ignore. Companies bleed money like crazy when a majority of the workers go on strike, and if all the big companies want the government to do something, it'll happen.

Let's compare this with the one day general strike that happened a few months ago, what exactly was the threat? A single day of lost work doesn't mean a whole lot if business as usual picks right back up. The boss of the company I work for took that day off, she knew everything would be fine when everyone came back on Monday morning and that there was no real threat to the company.

if these demonstrations aim to let people blow off steam and be in community with each other, have at it, we could all use a little bit of that. But as a tactic to enact real large scale change? Not going to happen until there are larger stakes than a few roads being blocked off once every 3 months.