I have a personal success story about protesting. Clinton's Democrat Congress included a clause in either an appropriations or a defense bill that allowed the Chi-Com Cosco shipping company to lease the closed Long Beach Naval Station property. Through numerous protests on the streets and working with Sen. Inhofe's office, he submitted an amendment to that legislation that stopped it. Clinton had to sign it because most of his liberal agenda was in it, plus it was unpopular with his own party.
That was when the democrat party was still somewhat patriotic, and before Newt took the house.