On Nov. 6, hundreds of demonstrators across Lebanon organized protests at locations that until this week had remained largely outside the scope of the Lebanese uprising. From the Ministry of Education to the Palace of Justice to the headquarters of state-owned telecommunications companies, protesters gathered to bring their grievances directly to Lebanon’s decision-making bodies.

“We are targeting the institutions that are the basic corruption sites,” protester Cybele Yazbeck told Al-Monitor at a protest in front of Electricite du Liban, Lebanon’s primary electricity provider. “These institutions are where we can get our demands [fulfilled].”

During three weeks of protests, Lebanon’s ongoing uprising has utilized marches, the occupation of public squares and the blockage of major roads throughout the country to demand the resignation of the government, an end to the sectarian system of government, the recovery of embezzled funds and more.

A week after the Oct. 29 resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, protesters across Lebanon have begun to move away from roadblocks in favor of a new strategy that targets public institutions that the demonstrators see as responsible for Lebanon’s socioeconomic problems in order to put pressure more directly on decision-makers and on the legal system as it prepares to investigate corruption cases. In addition to creating a new front in the fight against the establishment, according to both protest veterans and analysts, this new strategy also represents a symbolic recovery of spaces and public goods that demonstrators claim have been taken from the Lebanese people.