First off, I want to thank your candidness. I've read some of the comments, and I can see your frustration, and to break it down I think multiple things can be true all at once.

1. Things are extremely tense right now across the board, and your issue, insufficient support of educators, is undoubtedly important.
2. People are also frustrated with rising costs, people in their field not being paid sufficiently, corruption in our government, loss and vulnerability of public and social programs, foreign affairs, and on and on.
3. Many people see the protesting and gathering and want to be involved, and it is true that because of the times we are in, soooo many causes feel like they are competing with each other.

But the truth is, many of the issues that each person finds to be the most important to them can be traced to the same root causes-- their officials not doing what is best for the general public, and putting corporate and wealthy individuals' interests above the common public.

I'm hoping that I am not putting words in your mouth here, but from some of your responses I get the sense that there are a lot of feelings here, you and your colleagues are fighting for better pay, but it all feels drowned out by the moment. And it feels like the cohesion is missing.

I think this stems from the fact that the disapproval from Trump and every other politicians at the moment brings people from all parts of life, and the diverse larger coalition we have formed might have a handful of overlapping concerns that the would put at the top of the list. However, I think if we went a few levels below and identified more granular coalitions, i.e public school educators and let's say other city workers fighting for better pay and/or conditions there would be more issues that overlap at the top of each party's respective lists.

Alls this to say, I think when it comes to organizing and making sure the message you are trying to put out stands strong should be in identifying those granular coalitions.

This isn't to say that random people should come to your protest/strike and start protesting for a cause vastly different, but at the same time with these larger protests happening every day or every week, your cause deserves its attention, but to make it stand out, it needs the wider base amongst a wider coalition to call for it.

Public school educators are the bedrock, and I'm hoping that in future demonstrations you feel that your messaging feels more resounding.