HONK KONG PROTEST 2014

By: Claudia,Christian, Max

HISTORY

Hong kong is an independent country of China. This means, they control and govern themselves, separate from mainland China.

Originally, a British Colony, HK was given back to Mainland in 1941 when the Japanese people occupied HongKong.

Hong Kong is located at the very southern part of China, across from Shenzhen.

HongKong Location

HOW DID THE HONG KONG PROTEST

AFFECT THE CANTONESE PEOPLE’S LIVES?

WHO—WHERE — WHEN

➤PROTESTERS, GOVERNMENT Started with about 100 students who used social media to get about150,000 people to gather in one area in a couple of days

➤HONK KONG • Admiralty (26 September 2014 – 11 December 2014)• Causeway Bay (28 September 2014 – 15 December 2014)• Mong Kok (28 September 2014 – 25 November 2014)• Tsim Sha Tsui (1 October 2014 – 3 October 2014)

➤26 September 2014, 1 October 2014. They began the protest

over the pre election of a chief.

This is when they

ended the protest

BEFORE THE PROTEST➤ HongKong is a democratic place which means that they can

vote freely

➤ It also means that the cantonese people could speak freely for themselves

➤ Other Chinese country had influence on their elections

RESULTS➤ The Chinese people started to get involved in their pre

elections which the cantonese people couldn't accept

➤ People got into a massive protest over the fact that Chinese basically are taking away their freedom.

➤ HongKong is a democratic country but people say that HongKong is also a communism country so its believed to be a 1 government 2 systems country.

AFTER THE PROTEST➤ HongKong is still a 1 government 2 system country

➤ They now get no other country involved in their pre election for a chief

➤ They still have their freedom and rights to vote just like before

➤ China couldn't accept the fact they they couldn't pre elect for HongKong so they got mad and took any social network with HongKong down which features Instagram!

WHY WERE PEOPLE PROTESTING

➤ Beijing electing executive chiefs

➤ Hong Kong not China

➤ Chinese country’s getting

involved

METHODS➤Occupations ➤Sit-Ins ➤Mobile Street Protest ➤Internet Activism ➤Hunger Strikes ➤Hacking

CONCLUSION

➤ You all might thing well whats the answer to your essential question well we are gonna tell you.

➤ I want you to change mindset for a moment and put yourself in the cantonese people’s shoes and say to yourself my country do we need someone whom we can trust with our government and our world choices.

➤ Do we need someone whom we can't choose ourself to take care of our economy and our world stocks.

➤ If you can either say yes or no to those 2 questions then you basically found you answer!

INTERESTING FACTSTEENAGERS LOST INSTAGRAM BECAUSE OF IT!!

Arrested95575 turned themselves in

UMBRELLA and Ribbon MOVEMENT

Injuries470+ as of 29 November

SOURCES

➤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nULJWviVpc

➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests

➤ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/01/hong-kong-democacy-protesters-march-universal-suffrage

THANK YOU ANY QUESTIONS?