Seems only violent protests get any attention

True here as well. It sends a very dangerous message to those who feel frustrated at not being heard.

The Hindu : National : Non-violent struggles are being ignored, says Arundhati Roy: "NEW DELHI: Warning that the country was facing 'a kind of most serious situation,' author and human rights activist Arundhati Roy on Sunday said the Government these days was neither respecting nor listening to those raising their voice via non-violent means. Instead, it was inviting those leading violent struggles for talks.
Joining other social activists, writers, scholars, politicians and students at the Jantar Mantar here to express solidarity with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar � sitting on a fast-unto-death with two other activists, Jamsingh Bhai Nargave and Bhagwatibai Jatpuria, for the past five days, Ms. Roy said: 'All such tactics are sending a dangerous message to those who are fighting peacefully.'
'The Government is taking undue advantage of the situation, but it must realise that it is doing so at its own peril,' the author warned. The NBA activists had no option but to fight for their rights like many others who were now finding a common cause with them, she said, referring to families displaced by the removal of slums in Delhi and Mumbai. "