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What's the point of street protest?

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Demonstrations Are Not That Common

Doug McAdam is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He says demonstrations are not actually that common. A study in which 20 communities were slated for some big and risky environmental infrastructure project saw very little protests, he says.

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