It doesn't work that way. In Philadelphia, it was about 500 union thugs to about 30 protesters. When things got out of hand, the police were either not present or slow to step in. And when the courts got involved, it was Don Adams who was prosecuted for assaulting the Teamsters' work boots and ham fists with his face.
Perhaps we should have responded with numbers after that, but in reality, I ended up doing a number of solo protests despite vigorous rabble-rousing in advance.