content: Most people protest because they don't know how to do anything meaningful.  They're helpless and ineffectual.  By definition they're losers, so all they can do is cry.  Now, protesting actually does do some good as it shows the politicians/whoever is in charge the general level of unrest in a population.  These protests are bringing out the weirdos (weenies) so no leaders are going to take anything they do seriously.  When engineers, plumbers, nurses, teachers, and the like protest the policy makers pay more attention.