@mynameistillian The thing with this is that while it sounds nominally true, and it *could* be true in the context of a particular culture... this just doesn't really happen in practice in any NA or EU country that I know of.

For things to work this way, you would need to actually structure the protests to accommodate and encourage building long-term connections. Provide spaces for people to meet and talk, explicitly invite people to do so, make room for it in the schedule and make sure there's food and such.

But what actually happens is that the standard program is "show up, listen to a few speeches, maybe walk a march, go home". As far as I can tell, this "building connections for organizing" only exists in theory.