Social Movement

Shock TV turnout

Kelly Ip Monday, October 21, 2013 Tens of thousands of people yesterday gave the government the thumbs-down on its decision to award two instead of three free-to-air TV licenses. Estimates of the turnout ranged from the police's peak estimate of 36,000 to the 120,000 claimed by netizens, though it was apparent from the groups gathered outside government headquarters that the right figure was somewhere in between.

Integrate Hong Kong Society and Support Family Reunion Petition For Immigration Approval Right

Integrate Hong Kong Society and Support Family Reunion Petition For Immigration Approval Right, Return Autonomy Based on Just Principles to Hong Kong Co-sign Statement October 6, 2013 Hong Kong faces severe lack of affordable housing. The middle-class cannot afford to buy; the grassroots must wait extensively in the increasingly long queue for public housing. Everyone is forced to pay exorbitant rent meanwhile. The problem lies in the government’s unequal distribution of land and housing resources in favor of the real estate lobby. It tries to manipulate the situation by divide and rule, pitting one distressed constituency in Hong Kong in need of housing against another and create unnecessary social divisions, like persuading urban population in need of housing to endorse the demolition of rural homes in order to build their own. The government claims the “shortage of land” to justify large-scale development projects and the real culprit is the real estate hegemony. But unfortunately, some people disregard this core problem behind the government's “blind rush to grab land,” take the government’s claim on face value, and attribute the problem to “too many new immigrants” coming in. They displace the blame onto new immigrants with One Way Permits through a malicious analogy: turning the “reduce waste at the source” slogan into their “reduce population at the source” slogan, implicitly comparing immigrants to waste matter. This imagined population problem is a way to divert attention from and downplay the problem of uneven distribution of land and housing resources. By so doing, they become de facto accomplices of the real estate hegemony and also reinforce the prejudice against new immigrants, aggravating social schism in Hong Kong.

Rally to Support Edward Snowden in Hong Kong

  On 16th June, 2013, 900 people marched in solidarity with Snowden in Central, Hong Kong

Rally for Pay Rise and Collective Bargaining Right, 5 Dec 2010

Date: 5 December 2010 (Sunday)Time: 11amVenue: Yau Ma Tei Community Centre Rest Garden (Yung Shue Tau Rest Garden), Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon (Exit C of Yau Ma Tei MTR Station)

"An Apology Letter to Tiananmen Mothers" ---written by a group of FEHD staff who cannot forget

"An Apology Letter to Tiananmen Mothers" ---written by a group of FEHD staff who cannot forget  

CTU Youth Volunteer Group listed Seven Sins of Hong Kong Government in Creating Youth Poverty

Recently, the very high-profile protest by the youth reveals the difficulties faced by young people in general. Government figures have shown that the problem of youth poverty is getting worse, and this has increasingly led to grievances of young people, and more courage to fight against the regime collusion.

Students protest proposed Hong Kong-China railway

Hong Kong - Hong Kong university students Tuesday began a three-day protest against an 8.6-billion-US-dollar proposed express rail link to China. Students at six universities in the city of 7 million began demonstrated on campuses by kneeling down every 26 steps, in a reference to the length in kilometres of Hong Kong's section.

(This article is only written in Chinese)

劉宇凡  我們反高鐵,最簡單的理由,就是我們不能信任這個政府。它一貫進行官商勾結,利益輸送,而在地產、金融與大型建設上特別如此。  即使它日後普選產生,我們也要對它保持不信任,因為這個政府,在現有社會及經濟制度下必然為善的少,為惡的多。   

(This article is only written in Chinese)

(This article is only written in Chinese.)

(This article is only written in Chinese)

(This article is only written in Chinese)
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