An image grab from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying Stonehenge with an orange substance Wednesday. Last week, two climate protesters walked up to Stonehenge dousing the 5,000-year-old stone monument in a cloud of orange dye.
But these demonstrations, including the latest one at Stonehenge, don’t appear to meet the other two benchmarks of an effective protest. an academic consortium. Just a year later, 74 percent of Americans told Gallup that “mass demonstrations” like King’s were ““Disruptive protests are never popular … in the moment,” writes Shawn Patterson, Jr., a research analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, by email. “But nonviolent protests, particularly when met with state pushback, drove media coverage and eventually public opinion on civil rights.