Harassing people, preventing people sleeping for weeks, this is not "inconvenience" it's violence and intimidation against fellow citizens. I have zero sympathy or tolerance for violent occupations that force people out of their home, nor their supporters who try to pretend these things didn't happen.

Your bar for violence is so low you might accuse me of it for laughing in your face

It is 100% inconvenience, and if there’s one thing that can not be tolerated in these times, is any sort of inconvenience.

Funny. If the police did wake people out several times every night, it would be clearly considered not only violent, but outright torture.

> But that's what makes a protest effective: it's inconvenient! Otherwise, the protest has no power to change anything.

Well that's kind of the point - protesters don't have the power to change anything based on physical inconvenience. The inconvenience is merely a PR effort because protesters don't have any more effective form of of PR - if people are famous/wealthy/powerful/etc. they have better forms of PR available.

The problem with some styles of protest is that they're asymmetrical in terms of damage. A relatively small number of people who get worked up enough can congregate in one location and indefinitely shut down the operations of a person/group/organization/government. At some point the legitimate governing body needs to enforce the functioning of society, or they'll lose the mandate to govern.

Union Picket lines?