"Oceans, Vast Skies"". In Singapore, hundreds of people participated in a candlelight vigil at Hong Lim Park on 1 October to show support to the Occupy Central protesters. In Australia, during the 2014 G20 Brisbane summit, Hong Kong student Alvin Cheng and Nardo Wai started a 4-hour rally in support for the Umbrella Revolution on the lawn near the South Bank Parkland Suncorp Piazza outside the G20 summit venue. Numerous oversea students from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China participated in the rally. Nardo participated in a hunger strike, and unfurled a banner with ""Support HK Umbrella Revolution"" outside the"
"of Umbrella Man, taken 28 September 2014, depicts an unnamed male protester holding an umbrella in each hand while walking through tear gas fired by riot police. ""Business Insider"" has described the photo as iconic. It has been re-tweeted thousands of times along with multiple similar photographs tweeted during the protest, which show individuals using umbrellas to protect themselves from tear gas and water. The picture's popularity and that of other pictures caused the media to dub the protests, which were also called the Occupy Central movement, the ""Umbrella Revolution"". Two groups are involved in efforts to preserve the artwork."
"protesters to defence against police's pepper spray and tear gas. Some runners implemented this idea through a distance running passed through the main areas occupied by the pro-democracy protesters. Another reason of the name was: The course covered New Territories, Kowloon, and Hong Kong Island, which shown an umbrella shape on the map of Hong Kong. The Umbrella Movement started on 28 September 2014, when initiators of the Occupy Central movement announced the commencement at a rally taking place the Central Government Complex on Tim Mei Avenue. Police blocked all entrance to Tim Mei Avenue to obstruct Occupy Central supporters,"
"when the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement began, Cheng, who was studying at Queensland University of Technology, saw in the news that student protesters had been arrested in Hong Kong, so he returned there to participate in the protest. Early in November 2014, Cheng went back to Brisbane to plan for a rally against China during the 2014 G20 Brisbane summit. On 16 November 2014, Cheng and Nardo Wai began their four hour rally in support for the Umbrella Movement on the lawn near the South Bank Parkland Suncorp Piazza outside the G20 summit venue. Numerous overseas students from Hong Kong,"
"They wanted to use the by-election as a de facto referendum for universal suffrage and the abolition of the functional constituencies. The Umbrella Revolution erupted spontaneously in September 2014 in protest of a decision by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) on proposed electoral reform. The austere package provoked mobilisation by students, and the effects became amplified into a political movement involving hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens by heavy-handed policing and government tactics. All people of Chinese descent, who were born in Hong Kong on or before 30 June 1997, had access to only British"
"the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) after being deemed illegal. The Umbrella Revolution erupted spontaneously in September 2014 in protest of a decision by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) on proposed electoral reform. The austere package provoked mobilisation by students, and the effects became amplified into a political movement involving hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens by heavy-handed policing and government tactics. Social tension has heightened extensively due to PR China's effort in exerting everyday influences in Hong Kong. The territory currently delegates control of PR Chinese immigrants, as well as issue of visitor permits, to Chinese"
"to the two companies to produce these materials, which were accused of being ""biased"". The Leung administration, which steadfastly resisted public pressure to scrap the subject, was accused of attempting to force through the Beijing government's agenda to ""brainwash"" its citizens against popular opposition. A street protest against the introduction on 29 July organised by civic, teacher, parent and student groups opposed to the introduction was attended by an estimated crowd of 90,000. Sit-in protests frequently referred to as the Umbrella Revolution began in September 2014 in response to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress"
"1975) is a registered social worker who studied journalism at Shue Yan College in the 1990s, and was a member of the Civic Party at the time of the assault. He was travelling in South America when the Umbrella Movement began in late September 2014, and flew back to Hong Kong to join the protests. The 2014 protests occurred after the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) issued a decision regarding proposed reforms to the Hong Kong electoral system. The decision was widely seen to be tantamount to the Chinese Communist Party pre-screening the candidates for the leader"
"pre-screening before allowing Chief Executive elections triggered a series of protests in 2014 which became known as the Umbrella Revolution. Discrepancies in the electoral registry and disqualification of elected legislators after the 2016 Legislative Council elections and enforcement of national law in the West Kowloon high-speed railway station have raised concerns about the region's autonomy. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, with executive, legislative, and judicial powers devolved from the national government. The Sino-British Joint Declaration provided for economic and administrative continuity through the transfer of sovereignty, resulting in an executive-led governing system largely inherited from the"
"He was seriously injured in a targeted knife attack. Journalists and press of the world saw the attack as an attack on press freedom. Thousands of people, led by leading journalists, attended a rally to denounce violence and intimidation of the media. During the Umbrella revolution in 2014, anti-occupation protesters besieged the headquarters of Next Media, publisher of ""Apple Daily"". They accused the paper of biased reporting. Masked men among the protesters prevented the loading of copies of ""Apple Daily"" as well as ""The New York Times"" onto delivery vans. ""Apple Daily"" sought a court injunction and a High Court"
"process in 2014 when police used tear gas in attempts to get them to leave. ""Umbrella Revolution"" and ""Umbrella Movement"" have been used to identify this event through British media outlet BBC. through social network services such as Twitter and Instagram made the events in Hong Kong reach many other people not directly involved with the protest with the use of #UmbrellaRevolution and created a worldwide social awareness to how Hong Kong was responding to support of the democratic process. The #icebucketchallenge is an act where a bucket of ice water is dumped over the head of an individual and"
"and arrested demonstrators inside the Central Government Complex by 1:30 pm. A crowd gathered and anti-surrounded the police outside Tim Mei Avenue to stop police's transference of the arrested demonstrators. Police used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the crowd, while the crowd use umbrellas to fight against pepper spray and tear gas. The umbrella becomes symbol of this movement, and thus called the Umbrella Revolution or the Umbrella Movement. On 29 October, the full-month of the Umbrella Movement, some distance runners conceived the idea to support the Movement and to show solidarity with protesters by running a course"
"active in the League of Social Democrats as an organiser and protestor. Both were arrested for their efforts but the protests succeeded and that National Education curriculum was made optional. The film was premiered at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival on 29 March 2014 and released in theatres a week later on 5 April 2014. It played in theatres in Hong Kong during the summer of 2014. It gained renewed notoriety during the Umbrella Revolution of the fall of 2014 with Joshua Wong's prominent role. It was screened at the Mumbai International Film Festival. and the One World"
"as a freelance interior designer. He participated in the 2014 Hong Kong protests which is often dubbed the ""Umbrella Revolution"". After the protests, he formed Hong Kong Indigenous, a localist group, with other young protesters he met in Mong Kok who shared disappointment at the failure of the protests and disaffection with its leaders. Hong Kong Indigenous continued to organise and participate in other social movements, notably the anti-parallel trading protests in 2015, including the ""Liberate Sheung Shui"" on 24 January, ""Liberate Tuen Mun"" on 8 February and ""Liberate Yuen Long"" on 1 March. He was arrested five times in"
"outside the Liaison Office. They were later found not guilty. As a veteran activist, Wong was one of the leaders during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, which often called as ""Umbrella Revolution"". He was deeply involved in the movement and was later arrested with Joshua Wong, the main leader of the protests and Chinese University's Student Union member Jason Szeto Tze-long on 25 November during the police clearance of the Mong Kok sit-in site. In 2014, Wong became the vice-chairman of the LSD. In 2011 and 2015, Wong ran in the District Council elections in his neighbourhood Lek Yuen but"
"also been produced. Socialist Action played an active part in the historic Umbrella Revolution of mass occupations which gripped Hong Kong for eleven weeks in the autumn of 2014. They described this movement for a democratic election system as the most serious challenge to the Chinese dictatorship since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Socialist Action was especially active in the working class district of Mong Kok, considered to be the most radical of the three occupation zones. Socialist Action argued that while mass occupy movements were a good way to begin mobilising a mass movement, this would not by"
"flyovers and slip roads opened in the late 1960s. Along with Gloucester Road and Connaught Road Central, this part of the major highway running through Hong Kong will be replaced as a major thoroughfare by a new road to be constructed as a part of the Victoria Harbour reclamation phase 3, the Central–Wan Chai Bypass. From 28 September 2014 to 11 December 2014, the Umbrella Revolution took place. Harcourt Road, near to the Admiralty Station, Government and Legislative Council Complex, transformed into Umbrella Square, was occupied for 79 days by pro-democracy protesters. Harcourt Road Harcourt Road () is a major"
"to the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh by Carry Somers and Orsola de Castro. Somers and De Castro had worked as fashion designers in the UK for over two decades and saw that the factory collapse could act as a catalyst for change in the industry. Fashion Revolution Day takes place annually on 24 April, the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse when 1133 died and over 2500 were injured. In 2016, it expanded into Fashion Revolution Week. The first Fashion Revolution Day took place on 24 April 2014. Fashion Revolution's hashtag #insideout was the no. 1 global"
"red umbrella was used were held in Sydney, Australia; London, UK; Bochum, Germany; Thailand; the Netherlands; and Peru. The Red Umbrella Project is a non-profit organization based in New York City which advocates on behalf of sex workers and strives to empower them by giving them a voice. Although research about the sex worker movement has been conducted mainly in North American and Western European countries, sex worker-led mobilization has occurred around the world. Such actions seek to influence policies so that sex work is recognized as a legitimate profession, and sufficient rights are provided to sex workers. Scarlet Alliance"
"on 15 November. A number of installations and sculptures were created at occupation sites, of which one of the largest is a patchwork hanging in the middle of Umbrella Square made of fabric taken from more than a hundred broken umbrellas which were sewn together. The concept was developed by Baptist University art students, to bolster the movement in the early days. A group of about ten other students stripped the fabric from umbrellas that were broken and had been stained by tear gas in the police bombardment of 28 September, and wove them together and deployed it above what"
"the end, although two separate events were publicized on the Internet, in actuality they merged into a single march of over a thousand marchers, and the use of ""sharmuta"" no longer disputed. In 2014 the organizers of the marches in various cities united into an umbrella organizational frame. Although each of the cities had a separate organizing group that ran its march in its own way, the joint organization established a comprehensive branding for the march and held campaigns and advertising in collaboration, to consolidate messages and expand distribution. In 2015, a march took place in Jerusalem on May 29"
"Government Complex. During the event the pro-Beijing Liberal Party approached people and urged them to sign a petition in opposition of same-sex marriage. On 8 November 2014 marchers walked in the rain from Victoria Park to Tamar Park in front of the Central Government Complex. Organisers estimated that 8,900 took part, and stated that the boost in numbers could be partly attributed to Umbrella Movement participants as well as increased corporate sponsorship, including the MTR Corporation having offered the parade in-station advertising at a discounted rate. Dr. York Chow, chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, joined the parade for a"
"named ""umbrella revolution"" or ""umbrella campaign"" is. For this movement, it also brings some influence to people. At retail aspect, Wheelock's Admiralty Gallery, since 28 September in the evening until the morning of 29 September more than the entrance closed, causing confusion wage earners to work, many commuters unified query to the security center. Sogo Causeway closed shop early 18:00. Hysan Place's management company Hennessy Road will be closed with iron railings front entrance. Over 20 Nathan Road, Mong Kok section size of jewellery shops closed down, which goldsmith retail chain stores to close a third of the territory of"
"participants demanded freedom of choice, electoral freedom, democracy and, in particular, they wanted to participate during the elections of the head of the administration of Hong Kong. The name ""umbrella movement"" originated because the students protected themselves with umbrellas from the pepper spray of the police. Thus, umbrellas became the symbol of this movement. In 2016, Joshua Wong, Alex Chow and Nathan Law, student leaders of the protests, were indicted for their roles in the protests and found guilty. The disappearances of five staff at Causeway Bay Books – an independent publisher and bookstore – in October to December 2015"
"the Umbrella Revolution and ran under the banner of ""self-determination"" or Hong Kong independence. After the election, some localists joined the pro-democrats' caucus which rebranded itself as ""pro-democracy camp"". The main goal of the pro-democracy camp is to achieve universal suffrage of the Chief Executive (CE) and the Legislative Council (LegCo) as guaranteed in Article 45 and Article 68 of the Basic Law respectively. Since the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) 31 August 2014 decision that determined that Chief Executive candidate would be selected by a highly restrictive nominating committee which was seen as the betrayal of the democratic"
"headquarters on 26 September 2014; OCLP kicked off their civil disobedience campaign on 28 September. Demonstrations began outside the Hong Kong Government headquarters in northern Hong Kong Island, and eventually a swell of protesters then blocked both east–west arterial routes in Admiralty. Aggressive policing (including the use of tear gas) and attacks on protesters by opponents that included triad members, triggered more citizens to join the protests, occupying Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. Members of what would eventually be called the Umbrella Movement occupied several major city intersections, with the number of protesters peaking at more than 100,000. Government officials"
"The incident immediately helped kick off the 2014 Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Movement, which saw the motorway in front of the government complex, Harcourt Road, occupied by protesters until 11 December 2016. On 21 July 2016, the Eastern Magistrates' Court found Wong and Chow guilty of taking part in an unlawful assembly, while Law was found guilty of inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly. These were the first criminal convictions for all three. Wong was cleared of a charge of inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly. On 15 August 2016,"
"Fashion Revolution Fashion Revolution is a not-for-profit global movement with teams in over 100 countries around the world. Fashion Revolution campaigns for systemic reform of the fashion industry with a focus on the need for greater transparency in the fashion supply chain. Fashion Revolution has designated the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh as Fashion Revolution Day. In 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 millions of people around the world called on brands to answer the question Who Made My Clothes? The hashtag #whomademyclothes became the no.1 global trend on Twitter. Fashion Revolution was created in 2013 in response"
"ten people. It rapidly become an icon for the occupation movement upon its appearance on the demonstration site on 5 October 2014, and photographs of it have appeared on the front page of many newspapers and on websites around the world. The media have compared it to the Goddess of Democracy statue erected during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Since the large statue appeared, other versions emerged – a miniature woodblock version, as well as other materials, were created by others. Numerous walls or vertical spaces within the Umbrella Square were adorned with posters and messages of encouragement during"
"were born in Taishan, Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. They lived in Hong Kong, where his father was a newspaper illustrator until, during the lead-up to the Hong Kong Handover in 1997, they emigrated to Canada. Ng is the author of three books that together track Hong Kong's post-colonial development: ""Hong Kong State of Mind"" (2010), ""No City for Slow Men"" (2013) and ""Umbrellas in Bloom"" (2016). The last chronicles the 2014 Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Movement. Ng contributes opinion columns to the ""South China Morning Post"" and Hong Kong Free Press and"
"during the pro-democracy protests of the Umbrella Movement of 2014 ; Accordingly, some interest groups have claimed that the police has turned into a political tool in support of a governance system that is overseeing (wittingly or not) an erosion of the rule of law in favour of ""rule by law"". Fung Wai-wah, president of the Professional Teachers' Union, commented that ""the police [during the Umbrella Revolution] have made themselves enemy of the people"", literally overnight. Since 2014, there have been reports of police officers involved in sexual assaults on female victims. In one high-profile case involving an officer with"
"confirmed this theory and said he wrote this song after the Ferguson killing, being extremely angry and confused. Kanye West references this gesture in his song ""Feedback"" from his 2016 release ""The Life of Pablo"" with the lines ""Hands up we just doing what the cops taught us. Hands up, hands up then the cops shot us."" From September to December 2014, protesters in Hong Kong rallied against the Chinese government's reversal of its promise to grant them full democratic rights. During what became known as the Umbrella Revolution, protesters reacted to the heavy-handed tactics of the police by invoking"
"In October 2017, members of the organization and activists went into an unprecedented protests opposite the Chinese embassy in Ukraine with demand to release the leaders of the Umbrella Movement, Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Alex Chow and others from the Hong Kong prisons. The action was supported by the Amnesty International team in Ukraine and Hong Kong. The protest has attracted much attention from Asian media, including the main Hong Kong opposition newspaper Stand news. The project became part of the ""Liberal Education"" launched by the organization in 2015. The principal goal of the project is to conduct free Saturday"