Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps "They are stealing our jobs" Favorite 

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Date: 

Oct 12 2020

Location: 

Mexico City

Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition.

External sources: 

https://noticieros.televisa.com/ultimas-noticias/manifestacion-taxistas-cdmx-hoy...
Posted by Fernanda Soria on May 12 2021

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
The goal of the protesters was to force the government to regulate virtual taxi platform's tarifs.

Notes

Personally, I think this project had no visible effect. Since the protest, more taxi drivers from different Mexican cities have also protested collectively. Because no regulation has been put in place by the government, they started self-organizing and banning Uber drivers from accessing strategic places like bus stations, airports, and street avenues known to be touristic, full of restaurants, malls and hospital parking lots, among others.