Shouldn't we be angry at the subway too for letting people leave the airport?

That's specious. The subway is a utility provided by the city.

Taxis, if regulated by the city, are effectively a utility provided partially by the city.

Regulation of a private service does not obligate the operators of that service to offer it, unless those regulations specifically require it.

Same with public services, right? Some states prohibit strikes, but as far as I know that just means fining the unions. I'm not aware of any US jurisdiction that compels individuals to perform labor (excepting things like military conscription and community service sentences for crimes).

In Seattle the police shut down the light rail to avoid protests. There were no taxi strikes at Seatac though afaik.

When has this strategy ever worked? This is not how you appease or bring about change.

How do you think the two-day weekend and the forty-hour week was created? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

By an hour long unplanned "strike" called for with hours worth of notice?

Yeah, didn't think so. This conversation is getting absurd at this point.

"Appease"? Whom?

When has appeasing ever worked as an instrument of social change?

Perhaps that was the wrong word. "To bring about peace" is the definition I was going for.

Either way, this is not going to solve anything.

Go re-read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". The relevant bit has been quoted elsethread.

If you're talking about civil disobedience, then this taxi strike is not an example and ultimately not of much importance or purpose.

Immigration and customs officials refusing to follow the ban order would be actual disobedience and far more effectual in signal and lives changed.

Civil disobedience is not a zero-sum game, and there are huge network effects in people protesting, striking, etc.

This happens all the time with people unused to protest. "Protests doesn't do anything", "Other things are more efficient", "Their demands are vague", "People should work on making policy instead of protesting", etc.

Network effects, people, network effects.

What network effects? Awareness was an issue before the internet but we have instant global news coverage now, so what does this particular strike (which is not civil disobedience) do?

Ironically, if the court order to put a stay on the ban had come in during the strike, it would have made it even harder for those poor people to get home. How's that for "inconvenience"? The strike was a bad plan.

It's not ironic because that didn't happen. I'm sure the strike could have been called off very quickly if that happened.