Hk Umbrella Movement （Part 1)

Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong (Sep 28 – )

Background: Political

31st August 2014, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) announced its decision on proposed electoral reform• 1200 Pro-Beijing election Committee nominate then voted by Hong Kong people

• RICH BUSINESSMEN and EXISTING POLITICIANS• NO pro-democracy candidate can be nominated

lBackground: Political.

- So-called universal suffrage- YES right to vote- NO right to be voted- NO right to be nominated

- AGAINST our CONSTITUTION (Basic Law)

lBackground: Political.

- Legislative Council (Legco):- 50% nominated and elected by a small group

of pro-Beijing election committee- Pro-democracy group has no say

Background: Economy

• Politics dominated by beneficiaries of the system: Largest income gap in the world

• Some of the highest Real Estate Price in the World

• Economic development dominated by Real Estate Monopolies

• Very Low Wages

Student Strike

A World of Sharing and Love

Creating an Utopia of our Own

Where Art Meets Social Movement

Creating an Utopia on Our Own

Our Works in the External World

Difficulties

Police’s Brutality

Government’s Tough Stance

• One Negotiation with Students• Emphasized that they could not change the

bills passed by China• The use of Mass Media to portray students as

brutal demonstrators• Hiring of gangsters to attack protestors and to

destroy the order of the peaceful protests

Government’s Tough Stance

• Weakening the movement by dramatizing the conflicts between the police and the protestors

• Refusing to negotiate/delaying negotiation so as to accumulate tension between Occupy-central and ANTI-occupy central protestors

• Dramatizing social division between different social classes (the majority VS middle class)

Double-standards of Law Enforcement

• 1. Dropped the case against the police VS arresting peaceful protestors

• 2. Violent Umbrella VS “necessary tear gas”

Significance of the Movement

• 1. Awakening of Political Consciousness• 2. New Age of Civil Disobedience• 3. Leadership of Students in Movements• 4. Church Participation• 5. An Experiment of Socialist Life• 6. A New Age of Solidarity• 7. Creation of Social Networks of Future

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