Your post is just romanticising.
Those photos are meaningless.
Remember global protesting against IRAQ WAR?
It was millions and millions all shouting (peacefully) for the one demand. NO WAR!
Yeah we the people sure told them ay... and boy them changes came quick! (sarcasm)
The state of world now and into the future can be packaged in one word: DYSTOPIA.
There's examples of it everywhere already.
The one most important one I will use is the BLM "movement".
So called freedom from oppression of black, fuelled by corporate money.
So how on earth do you see remodelling of power when elite money steer the mob. It's all a circus. If you really think that actual benefit to human will be outcome then you are just a clown.
The strong arm hasn't even acted yet.
Elites aren't yet threatened. IF their freedom begins to be impacted then best believe massacres of people are coming. Who is really willing to die for change on them streets. Likely only those who fight for anarchy. So then that in itself is an oxymoron. That the ones out there, aren't even fighting for anything. Just enjoying the freedom to be destructive... hmmm... I wonder who sets that narrative.
i hear what you are saying...
but i think its different this time..
the people have the power.. if they choose to take it.
now the mood is very different,.,. before it was anti war.. now its anti government.. and the people are tired, and suffering en masse. People used to be distracted.. now they have nothing to do..
There is nothing the state fear more than mass protests.. and believe me there is NO way they can kill a million demonstrators in any Country, and especially Europe.. they can try to scare everyone, and push them down.. but when its time its time.. and I think the time is coming soon,, and maybe it wont be directly because of protests. but to me they are a sign..
lets see! what happens ;-)_ we can only really guess
I respect your optimism but that's why I gave the Iraq War example. Which was not just a cry for no war but really a cry for "don't fuck the world up" (which was the result). So if we all march against the state of the world now, we don't have actual power to make any changes.
My view is that only bloodshed achieved change. Both as the only way to touch elites, and by accepting death ourselves. Only then we can generate a movement that is willing to kill and die for result.
To gain that position of power though the people need arms. There's not many countries where that option exists. So then that leaves only a few countries where a real resistance could rise. USA in effect is in that process, but again, it's not a real movement of the people.
The other way is to have the army be that force. That's a common method in many countries. When the forces those elites command no longer hold support for them then power can and does shift. That almost happened in Turkey a few years back. It exemplified though that the people DIDN'T support it and it was the people that put their lives on the line to stop it.
So while I do agree with you that people power is a thing which can change the course of history, there are many other factors that need to align too in order for the power elite to even take the noise we make seriously.