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Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
First published in The Atlantic on July 1, 2025
by Betsy Levy Paluck, The Atlantic
July 3, 2025 | reading time: 9 Min.
A protest can be a fine way to get people’s attention—particularly the attention of those in positions of power. But one of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded “spiral of silence,” which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared.
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