Surely a safer option would be to all take a day's leave and to turn up somewhere (outside CAS's office?) waving placards in a peaceful protest type thing. That would certainly get the attention of their airships, especially when it was in all the papers the next day because nothing like it had been done before by the Services.
It would need a lot of support to work, though, otherwise individuals would be identified etc.
Just musing - not volunteering! But I think it's the only way a proper protest by the 'masses' could work within the Services.