Umbrella Revolution Sweeps Riot Police From Hong Kong Streets

ByKyle W. Bell

Despite deployment of increasingly harsh tactics over the weekend aimed at forcing pro-democracy protesters off the streets of Hong Kong, by Monday it was police units forced into retreat while the number of those backing democratic reforms and promising to hold ‘central’ areas of the city appear to be growing. Initially organized under a call…

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Hong Kong Students Stage Massive Boycott in Fight for Democracy

ByKyle W. Bell

Launching a new wave in the fight for “true democracy,” thousands of Hong Kong university students kicked off a week-long boycott of classes on Monday with a mass sit-in and rally protesting what they say is the further colonization of the city by the country’s elites. “How can a few people decide Hong Kong’s future?…