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Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters declare ‘We are back’ in poster campaign from Victoria Park to Admiralty on fifth anniversary of Occupy movement
- Activists stick posters – on walls, escalators, footbridges and the pavement – all the way from to government headquarters
- Organisers estimates they prepared 10,000 posters, with the symbol of the Occupy movement – a yellow umbrella – showing up everywhere
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Protesters on Saturday put up thousands of posters across downtown Hong Kong, many declaring “We are back” to the government on the fifth anniversary of the Occupy movement.
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The anti-government activists started by building a so-called Lennon Wall at Victoria Park at around 3pm. They continued to stick posters – on walls, escalators, footbridges and the pavement – all the way from Causeway Bay to government headquarters in Admiralty, some 2.7km away.
Some protesters formed human chains along sections of roads.
Posters pasted up in Causeway Bay recounted all the major protests since June 9, the date of the first major demonstration against the now-withdrawn extradition bill. Other posters listed the protesters’ demands to the government, while others promoted upcoming protests on Sunday and National Day on October 1.
In Admiralty, a spiral staircase outside government headquarters – the site of the original Lennon Wall created during the 2014 Occupy movement – was again plastered with a colourful mosaic of posters and Post-it-notes with pro-democracy messages, anti-government slogans and various works of protest art. The Occupy movement was a failed 79-day blockade in Central that protesters used to call for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
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