In the early 2000s. Depending on the generation that’s around 800-900 dollars in today’s dollars.

“Their protests are the only ones that consistently get headlines and they make a point that nothing they do is permanent or a public danger.”

No public danger?

Like when they blocked a roadway and kept an ambulance from moving a patient? Or when one of their protests caused enough traffic to delay a responding ambulance resulting in 2 deaths?

Or just in general figuring the best way to get across their message is to sit in a roadway.