What makes an effective protest are the protesters themselves. If you don't have dedicated protesters willing to give their undivided attention, you won't have a successful protest. Groups of people use protests because whoever you are protesting, they are more likely to listen if a large group of people are directing the movement. If one person just sat outside city hall with a sign versus 50 people sitting outside with signs, city hall is more likely to take interest to the larger group of people. The AIDS activists used a very good way of protesting to get what they needed done. They could've used other methods, but they would've taken way to long to get some success out of it, and the AIDS movement was time sensitive, because of all the people dying from this horrific disease.
