Joshua Wong, 2015. Demotix/David Smith. All rights reserved.
“Many people ask me, should we have halted the occupation a lot earlier?” It would seem that Joshua Wong has no regrets. “We could not have stopped the movement,” he tells me, without looking up. “Even if we had declared an end, we would not have been able to persuade everyone to leave. And we couldn’t abandon them.” He punctuates every sentence with a swipe of his phone, both distracted and alert: the ultimate networked activist.
