I was thinking of what is happening in Honduras, where indigenous people are fighting to protect and hold the lands they have lived on and the virtual silence of/lack of support from the Catholic hierarchy of those countries.  See this article in NCR:  https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/berta-caceres-dorothy-stang-remembered-notre-dame-de-namur-vigil   

It isn't that the people there aren't already fighting.  It is that those who have a more powerful voice are silent.  

I don't expect the bishops and the members of the clergy to carry the entire ball.  But I don't think it is unreasonable to expect them to speak up, participate, when the less powerful are already doing their part.