ICYMI: Silent Black Cloth Protest in Hong Kong for the Death of Democracy Supporters of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement participated in a “black cloth march” on Sunday afternoon to call for genuine universal suffrage, rejecting China’s selected candidates for the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Dressed in black and carrying large sheets of black cloth, more than a thousand protestors silently marched from one of Hong Kong’s most crowded commercial districts to the city’s financial center, where leaders of the civic organization Occupy Central plan to stage a sit-in protest in early October. The banners carried messages like “the government has broken its promise,” “civil disobedience” and “boycott classes,” the latter in support of local students’ decision to go on a week-long strike on September 22. revolution-news/silent-black-cloth-protest-hong-kong-death-democracy/
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:44:05 +0000