That's a good question, and I'm ashamed to say I don't know whether it's possible or not. "Grassroots organizing", or bottom-up pressure on the government, is

That's a good question, and I'm ashamed to say I don't know whether it's possible or not. "Grassroots organizing", or bottom-up pressure on the government, is a thing in the US, but I don't know the mechanisms by which it acts, beyond getting people to sign petitions once in a while. I suspect most other people in the US don't know the mechanisms either.