Political participation

It is my belief that conventional political participation is pretty much useless, and that unconventional political participation is not used enough today.
Conventional participation encompasses things like voting, which we have already discussed and determined that many people feel that voting doesn't really change anything, writing to one's representatives, which doesn't do a whole lot because those representatives have more important deals to honor and people to appease than one or two ordinary citizens, and things like speeches, which may work up some publicity, but don't do anything with it.
Unconventional participation includes things like political violence, which I am not including in the "not used enough" category because with a country and military like ours not only would political violence probably not work, but it would scare many supporters away from the cause. But other things like civil disobedience are simply not used enough any more. Civil disobedience is a great way to work up public awareness and sympathy, and creates a problem that the authorities have to do something about, forcing action on the issue. I know that marches are getting a little stale and overused, but things like peacefully breaking a law to draw attention to that law's wrongness is just not seen often enough any more.