Strikes, boycotts, riots are how you take things apart. You always need politics to put them together and hold things together. Riots can’t deliver road projects or run schools or protect the environment. Destruction is costly. Incremental change is preferred but sometimes it is not sufficient.

Absolutely do both!! Work locally!! Help people. Do everything you said and join into the local politics and participate in the political campaigns, government and elections. It’s not either/or. It’s both/and.