Occupy Central
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| "Democracy movement" Occupy Central link () Facebook Twitter Website | |
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| File:OccupyCentral.jpeg | |
| Abbreviation | OCLP (åå¹³ä½ä¸) |
| Motto | Occupy Central with Love and Peace |
| Formation | 27 March 2013 |
| Founder | Benny Tai |
| Status | largely captured |
| Purpose/focus | Subversion of Chinese control of Hong Kong |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
| Location | Hong Kong |
| Leader | Benny Tai |
| Type | protest movement |
| Interests | Universal suffrage |
| Membership | Martin Lee, Anson Chan |
| A civil disobedience movement which first manifested on the streets of Hong Kong's financial district on September 28, 2014. Plenty of support from National Endowment for Democracy. | |
Occupy Central, or Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) was a civil disobedience movement which manifested in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014, as a single-purpose civil disobedience campaign initiated by Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man on 27 March 2013. It partially led to the 2014 Hong Kong protests, sometimes called the Umbrella Revolution.
It called on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments did not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020, according to what it described as "international standards." [1]
The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013. It receives funding, logistics and PR support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiary the National Democratic Institute; the word "National" in both cases referring to the USA, the government of which, together with many large Western Corporate sponsors, provide the bulk of their funding.
References
- ↑ Occupy Central - South China Morning Post