I think it’s naive to sit around and hope for drastic changes. Revolutions and protests are only symptoms of the actual change.
I’ve seen it happen several times regarding workers rights. F.i. Strikes always makes the news, but quite often the strikes are shut down quickly with little to no change. The idea for the demands existed in a smaller group before the strike and that idea doesn’t disappear when the strike ends. The actual changes usually does happen at the next ordinary collective bargaining. That’s how working time has been lowered throughout the years. People strike, achieve nothing, but then it’s still lowered, because the idea can’t be shut down. The strike serves to distribute the idea, but it rarely makes the change by itself. For a lot of other good ideas it never even makes it to a strike, and sometimes a drastic protest might even hurt the idea.
Ideas change the world, not violence.
There are plenty of examples of this. Listen to the podcast. The research behind it is solid.