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Bookmark or Share- Umbrella Movement - WikipediaThe Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動) was a political movement that emerged during the 2014 Hong Kong protests.
- What was Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement about? - QuartzIn a media-saturated age, they made for striking images—a sea of black, as protesters often wore, punctuated with yellow, the preferred color for protest umbrellas. A protester in central Hong Kong...
- Hong Kong's umbrella movement: A timeline of key events one year onFrustration stalks the so-called umbrella movement, a loose collective that took to the streets after Beijing said it alone would choose candidates standing for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2017. But protest leaders Joshua Wong and Benny Tai agree that political awareness among the young generation was the movement's biggest achievement.
- Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: The Protests and BeyondHong Kong’s Umbrella Movement occupied commercial districts for 79 days, from September 28 to December 15, 2014. The movement is so named because protestors opened umbrellas to shield themselves from the police’s pepper spray and tear gas. The sudden explosion of public outrage had deep roots.
- 2014 Hong Kong protests - WikipediaA series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014.
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