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En bref
In repressive regimes, directly criticizing the authorities can be dangerous. One lower-risk way to challenge the legitimacy of the regime is to focus attention on everyday economic struggles, e.g. high prices.
Living under the rule of a repressive regime can be very dangerous for people who are working for social justice. Openly criticizing the authorities or speaking out on political issues can get you harassed, monitored, threatened, jailed or worse.
For those who are determined not to be silenced or intimidated, focusing criticisms on obvious challenges that touch the lives of almost every person in the street carries a lower risk of retaliation. For example, it is safer to criticise the regime indirectly by highlighting facts like bread shortages, sewage problems, electricity blackouts or high fuel prices than to directly denounce the corruption or lawbreaking of those in power.
Furthermore, addressing day-to-day concerns is more likely to attract public support for your cause, compared to the apathy, or sometimes fear and anger, that directly political demands might provoke. Choosing a theme so obvious and basic that hardly any could argue against the logic behind it — like food and health — not to mention affordable and functioning electricity — can be helpful in such circumstances.
Exemples du monde réel
Demanding the protection of water resources from corporate exploitation, 15,000 indigenous people gathered to protest in Guatemala City.