Originally Posted by
northernlights
Oh noes. Your civil liberties are being oppressed by the man! Here's an idea. Why don't you start a picket line outside of Taco Bell and let your feelings be known to the world?
Actually, a properly done picket would be just the sort of negative publicity that tends to bring these things to the attention of upper management, and make them reconsider whether whatever middle manager thought that policy up is worth listening to.
PROPERLY DONE is key, though. You need to have more than three or four people, and have them look like a properly representative subset of local residents. Also, fat people in spandex are cycling's equivalent of wookie suits.
You also need to have your talking points worked out beforehand, and shared with the entire group. You might get the media out there, and everybody needs to be on the right message, and not sounding like that guy in every tornado report describing how it carried off his uncle/dad's 1979 TransCamaroBird with all seven of the dogs inside.
Look like a small fringe group, and you're easy to ignore. Look like lunatics, and you're easy to ignore. Look like a moderate sized gathering of respectable citizens, and you're likely to get some effective attention.