Social justice will most likely involve systemic change and therefore require action by government both in terms of legal provision and the granting of financial resources. In other words, redistribution and changed priorities. Truth must speak to power so it is useless to direct campaigns at those without power. Campaigns have to be honed to hit the target, usually ministers and members of the ruling political party.
The problem is that too many faith and secular organisations, passionate and dedicated as they are to advancing social justice, are too polite and ineffective in their campaigning. You have to get under the skin, be a nuisance, keep pressing, to have any chance of success. Polite letters, petitions, learned dissertations, social media, detailed reports of themselves do not produce change. There has to be a catalyst to persuade those in power to make changes.
Work out who are the relevant ministers and members of parliament, demonstrate outside their constituency offices, go to their surgeries. Keep the local press and other social media informed of your campaign and the reactions you receive: keep them onside. Above all be a confounded nuisance should early contact be unproductive. Be prepared for the long haul. Be seen, keep your campaign in the public eye.
I wish national faith and secular organisations would work together and coordinate local action. I do not hold much store by big national demonstrations: for the most part they do not result in the change desired by the demonstrators.
My final thought is make sure the campaign is positive: seek social justice for the people you wish to support. What matters is what you are for, not what you are against.
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