Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan.
The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.
Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing's regime in Hong Kong.
I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.
There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.
From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.
I hope those who previously only thought of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee regarding Hong Kong would now realise that the city is also a place fighting for democracy.
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
In December 2014, during the final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming We'll Be Back sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful pro-democracy protesters for nearly three months.
The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.
