Don't block the road then
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For some context, its not regular white annoying climate activists. They were apparently against some actually quite toxic mining that their government just approved on due to outright bribery. From my understanding it was an open pit copper mine that got approved and the protest was because that might actually and incredibly kill or hurt people in the local area because those are quite bad for obvious reasons.
They are still retarded in how they went about it, and the second guy absolutely deserved to get shot for being stupid. Its even a shame the woman in the background who said "Go on shot us" didn't get hit.
But its one of the few environmental issues that isn't made up bunk and worth protesting. Just maybe not in a bumble fuck retarded way like this.
If I want to protest the government, I would write to the government, my local constituants, or if that's a bust, I write to the UN, the WTO, big NGOs. Maybe try to go viral on TikTok, get secondary attention that way.
If I want to inconvenience them in a non-violent way, block their own driveway, or the front steps to their governing house, or even block the front steps of the major news media's headquarters.
What you don't do, is try to block a road in a nation where bandits will block roads and rob those who dare stop at gunpoint. That's like trying to garner support for Sikhs by leaping out from the bushes at midnight at people brandishing your kirpan knife. Yeah, you're showing your solidarity with their religious iconography, but you're doing it in a way that makes you look like a murderous criminal.
Unions on strike almost always get what they want nowadays. And how do they do it? They partially block their own place of business, specifically. There's a proven track record of that getting results. Blocking random roads? Bah.
There's all kinds of ways to protest: Speeches, letters, open letters, petitions, peaceful gatherings that don't block traffic or marches where the public is notified well in advance, lobbying, posting on public boards, vigils, walkouts, boycotts, strikes, lots of online shitposting, selling banned goods and services or even just doing things that hurt nobody while knowing you could be arrested for it.
There's also the Scientology model: First accrue a giant war chest and devout followers. Then when any entity crosses you, you wage a total but legal scorched earth theater of battle on the perps. Target one or more high value individuals, have them watched 24/7 with PI's and make sure they know you're watching, send followers to knock on their doors to ask questions and interview and harass them, dig through their garbage, harass their family and friends via phone, e-mail, and even open letters in publications, float rumors that make their employers want to fire them, provoke them and sue them. Eventually the individuals will crack; even if they work for the FBI (which actually happened before) and let you have your way again.
This isn't actually legal, and the rest as a group would almost certainly be stalking/harassment, but that's what the giant war chest (and implicit threat of violence to anyone that might hold you to task for your crimes) are for.