The short answer, if that's what you are looking for, is NOTHING.
Drum circles, marches, occupy, all of these things accomplish nothing at all beyond attracting attention to the cause and helping mark the leaders. Often the only people even paying attention are the government, and I will leave it to you to decide if they care more about the message than the messenger.
It is often said that civil disobedience never accomplishes anything. That it is, at best, a distraction that focuses the wrong kind of attention on the movement. Those preaching this gospel point to people like Martin Luther King and the battle for civil rights, or Gandhi and his fight for liberation, and they cite these cases as evidence. This non-intervention philosophy is even taught in schools, and has become so ingrained that it is taken as a matter of faith by most.
It's absolute nonsense.
To believe that these tactics are effective requires some astonishing mental gymnastics and magical thinking. People believe it because every "expert" they have ever seen told them that this was so. To be fair, it's a tempting idea, as it demands nothing of the activist beyond outrage with the status quo and perhaps a saturday march or two to demonstrate just how "serious" they are about the issue. People are not just aught that this works, they are taught that this is the only thing that does work. So that's what they do. When they are really REALLY outraged they march around banging on drums chanting empty slogans. "Hey Hey, Ho Ho! Meaningless Marches are the way to go!"
To believe that this is effective, you have to basically ignore EVERYTHING except the sanitized versions of the civil rights movement taught in school and talked about on the TV. You have to ignore all of history, all of the present, and even reason and common sense. In short, it can ONLY be believed if one accepts it as a matter of faith. We are not talking about a strategy that sometimes works and sometimes does not, it's not fifty-fifty or even thirty-seventy, we are talking about faith in a tactic that essentially never works. It's like dropping a ball and hoping it will fall up.
On the positive side, there is something that you can do that is more powerful than any march. You can VOTE.
Vote for people who believe as you do, convince others to do the same, insist that these representative ALWAYS continue to represent you and only you, and you will see change. If you are willing to compromise your beliefs do not be surprised when your representatives do the same. If you want these wars to end, if you want drone strikes to end, refuse to vote for anyone who supports them. Don't organize a march, organize a recall. It might not get their attention, but it could, and marching around shouting slogans never will.
In my opinion.
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