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The Women’s March: A Movement or Passing Parade?

Mar 4, 2017 | News

Written by Julie Hare

In the US over 3.5 million people marched on 21 January, joined by  hundreds of thousands more around the world. But was this a ‘protest’ march, or an unprecedented display of ‘solidarity’?.

Professor Simone Chambers is a political scientist at the University of California at Irvine. She is a globally renowned expert on deliberative democracy, visiting Australia as a guest of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She spoke with the Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at UC, Virginia Haussegger. 

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