This is all still happening.

So keep up the heat.

It’s perversely consoling to say protests don’t work. It spares you the trouble of going to them, for one. To dismiss protests is also a nice hedge when they don’t convulse an epochal revolution.

And God bless us all, really, for not wanting to go. Stand around with wilted flower children and shout “hey” and “ho”? That is mortifying and depressing and what if someone saw us?

But a good protest does work.