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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘The world has become bigger’: fighting for trans rights in Hong Kong
Despite its cosmopolitanism, Hong Kong society still holds conservative views on gender and sexuality. But a new...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movement
Governments are seizing the opportunity to grab power amid the crisis. Hong Kong offers a model for resistance.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why it keeps kicking off everywhere: ‘Order’ versus social justice from the Balkans, to the Middle East, to the Andes
This is a cold war fought by “leaders” willing to maintain their privilege at all costs, to the detriment of a...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe world is in a revolutionary moment – how can the global left be a serious player?
We need not one but two internationales – a ‘movement of movements’ and a World Party.
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Published in: HomeHong Kong’s protest movement must stop ignoring migrant workers
The city's migrant workforce could bolster the protests significantly, but their demands are not being heard.
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Published in: 50.50Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow: “it's never easy to fight for what we believe in”
Founding member of the Demosistō political party talked to World Forum for Democracy youth delegates about the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new international municipalist movement is on the rise – from small victories to global alternatives
In a world stuck between neoliberal crisis and authoritarianism, a reinvigorated municipalist movement is proving a...
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Published in: HomeResisting dissolution: the stalemate between Hong Kong civil society and China’s central government
China’s latest interpretation of Hong Kong’s ‘basic law’ reaffirms an important tenet of Beijing’s position: any...
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Published in: HomeAfter the Umbrella movement, Hong Kong now faces an identity crisis
One of the original founders of Hong Kong’s 2014 democracy protests thinks that increasing dis-identification with...
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Published in: HomeTwo years after the Occupy protests, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council sees a generational shift in politics
Recent elections have injected new demands for self-determination and ideas of localism into the heart of Hong...
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Published in: HomeHong Kong’s angry young millennials: an interview with Joshua Wong
The student protest leader has been the centre of western media attention, but he’s not without his critics within...
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Published in: HomeThe new journalism outfit that is shaking up Hong Kong’s establishment media
Launched in the wake of the city’s Occupy protests, Hong Kong Free Press aims to “shine a light in dark places”.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesPrivacy under threat in Hong Kong
23,946 warrantless metadata requests raise privacy concerns for Hong Kong’s online activists. The loss of online...
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Published in: HomeTrouble in paradise
Months before Hong Kong’s Occupy unleashed popular frustration onto the streets, a refugee movement adopted...
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Published in: HomeThe right to Hong Kong
The protest camps have been cleared. But Hong Kong’s Occupy movement has laid bare the struggle for space that rages...
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Published in: HomeTamed by Beijing
The death knell for Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution was sounded even as the movement entered December. The final...
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Published in: civilResistancePhysical space and ‘Occupy’ tactics: a new trend in civil resistance?
Does the term ‘occupation’ delegitimize movements by casting participants as short-term guests, instead of...
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Published in: HomeOn election day, let Texas voters tip their hats to Hong Kong
On November 4, long lines of unarmed Texas voters can salute American democracy’s counterparts and admirers abroad...
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Published in: civilResistanceHong Kong’s umbrella movement
The movement could benefit from encouraging splits within the seemingly unified voice of the elite, bound to have...
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Published in: HomeViolence in Hong Kong: the translated evidence
Hong Kong Democracy Now is a voluntary working group translating videos and articles to support international media...