One of Saul Alinsky’s principles was that activists should do what they enjoy and have **fun** doing it!
We went to the 9/12 rally last year and it was such a blast and so full of fellowship. Yes, there were speakers and so on. But mainly people walked around and read signs and chatted up each other. There were so many funny (but real) signs, people playing music to small crowds that would form, people getting their pictures taken with Americans that had come from all over the place (the pics were prompted by signs or costumes) — it was a wonderful festive, fun and optimistic atmosphere!
Without the signs, costumes and people playing their instruments, it would have been difficult for all these strangers to connect and immediately know the love of country they shared. And this is the essence of the movement — INDIVIDUAL protest against our government voluntarily bonding with likeminded INDIVIDUALS. The strength is purely in the individual American.