Even if something isn't a color revolution the basic way to respond to the situation should usually be the same as of there were one. Nothing good comes from shilling for the US State Department approach, something that ultras seem to be addicted to.
In general, the more proximal to R&D, the less acceptable it is to vegans.
At these early stages, the research involves animal exploitation and killing to product the initial cells. Some of the production processes do, too. A stalwart vegan might avoid those products as a result.
Eventually, there will probably be companies and production processes that do neither and the connection to harm will be, at least psychologically, more diffuse. More vegans will be cool with it over time until none of them care outside of the issues re: normalizing meat consumption.
There are confounding factors but that's the trend.
This is exactly where horseshoe theory comes from though. Liberals are criticized by both and in their infinite wisdom they conclude that they must be the same.
They're not going to divest if the protesters leave. This is a ploy to get them to leave and then hold a vote where they choose to keep their status quo.
It's literally, "we see you, we hear you" but it works on college kids that don't know what it means.
The best thing to practice is de-escalation and running away. If you need to fight, it should be after those fail. The exception is if you do something as an organized group, in which case you should use the program and technique adopted by that group. There is safety in numbers. Anything that is dangerous should be done with a group and in an organized way.
Fights are very dangerous. It's not like on TV. If you get knocked down and kicked in the head even once, you can die. If you get hit in the head and just fall wrong, you can die.
It is certainly safer to carry a weapon before learning how to spar. Pepper spray, tazer, a knife, a gun. Those are ordered by safety to the user Ave I recommend getting them in that order and only doing so when it feels necessary and like this is more likely to protect you than become something that would backfire on you.
This is a great opportunity for people like us to do political education. If y'all have a local encampment get involved and run some teach-ins on why your demands need to be concrete and realized before giving up your leverage and promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. Come prepared with historical examples. There are probably very recent ones re: BLM promises in your area.
I recommend installing a Linux distribution that requires a hands-in approach like Gentoo or Linux from scratch. If you don't have an extra computer you can do it on a virtual machine on the computer you do have.
The process will require you to use the various incantations and rituals of using the terminal. As you do so, learn what they do by googling them or using their man page.
For more practice, write a shell script or otherwise choose a task you want to do using the terminal like browsing through your files or searching for a file whose name matches a pattern and so on.
You can also politely register your non-partisan complaint in private where nobody can hear you.