Yup, that's just a lonely person looking for friends in the most boring, but socially acceptable way possible.
It's just a shitty play for popularity for most "right-thinking people."
It's like no one ever told them that you can just ask people if they'd like to go for a drink. No one likes some miserable affair where they stand around, listening to idiots make shitty speeches. Everyone would like a drink.
I don't quite understand how the activist-types miss that. Talking about politics in public is rude, buying someone a beer is polite.
We have social conventions for a reason.