In some cases, activists are trying to rebuild mangroves, providing some positive results.
In some of these cases, activists even won government funding for local- or indigenous-controlled media centers that then become the locus of new battles.
In many cases activists work for years on a project without seeing the major change they want to bring about.
"Fishing rights are more important than sovereignty, but fishing rights also means sovereignty (in this case)," activist Chen Chunsheng, who is organising the flotilla, told reporters on Monday.
Although it covers only the plaintiffs in one case, activists say the ruling paves the way for Mexico to make history and end drug prohibition, in spite of social stigmas, a deadly drug war and strong opposition from politicians and the Catholic church.
Last week, a Turkish court cleared eight former security personnel of any involvement in the killing of 21 Kurds in the 1990s, dashing hopes in a case activists had seen as a landmark for Kurdish rights.
Hannity is wrong, by the way, to say Ocasio-Cortez's supposedly scary platform represents the current state of the Democratic Party if that were the case, activists like her wouldn't be fighting with the establishment to push the party to the left.
Professor O'Brien warned that the Supreme Court, in many recent redistricting cases, was "activist when it comes to elections," and made a number of rulings with the barest majority of five Republican appointees.
"This is not an isolated case," Saudi activist Hala al-Dosari told the BBC.
He counted at least five or six cases of activists' being interrogated, searched or stopped during activities.
