Scholarism
| 學民思潮 | |
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| Formation | 29 May 2011[1] |
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| Type | Student activist group |
| Headquarters | Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island |
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Region served | Hong Kong |
Official language | Cantoneses |
Convenor | Joshua Wong |
| Website | scholarism |
Scholarism (Chinese: 學民思潮) is a Hong Kong student activist group formed on 29 May 2011 by a group of secondary school students.
Scholarism is considered "extremist" in the state-run Chinese media. Its leader, Joshua Wong, claims that he is named in China's Blue Paper on National Security as an internal threat to political stability and to the rule of the Communist Party of China.[2]
History
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Against Chinese Moral and National education
It was formed as "Scholarism – The Alliance Against Moral & National Education"[3] Scholarism is the first pressure group against the Moral and National Education and rose to a leading organisation. The group is known for being one of the few organisations that protested outside the Central Government Liaison Office after the 1 July march 2012.[4]
Members of Scholarism launched a occupation protest at the Hong Kong government headquarters to force the government to retract its plans to introduce Moral and National Education as a compulsory subject between August and September 2012. Fifty members occupied the public park beneath the government offices, of which three began a hunger strike.[5]
Hong Kong Democratic movement
After the movement against Moral and National Education in which Scholarism rose to fame, the pro-democracy students have remained active in the social and democracy movement in Hong Kong.
On 23 June 2013, Scholarism issued a statement which stressed the necessity of civil nomination for the 2017 Chief Executive election.[6] By late August, Scholarism drew up a charter and begun lobbying democratic Legislative Councilors to sign, committing their parties to make civil nomination through universal suffrage the number one priority during the coming campaign for the 2017 Chief Executive election. Among other pro-democratic parties who agreed to sign, the Civic Party signed on with reservations and the Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood refused to sign it as they disagree that public nomination should be the only way to put forward candidates.[7]
See also
- Lessons in Dissent, a documentary film
References
- ^ 關於我們. 學民思潮 Scholarism (in Chinese).
- ^ Wilfred Chan and Yuli Yang, CNN Echoing Tiananmen, 17-year-old Hong Kong student prepares for democracy battle 28 September 2014
- ^ 基本資料. 學民思潮 Scholarism (in Chinese).
- ^ "Road closures a flashpoint during tense marches". South China Morning Post. 2 July 2012.
- ^ 70多名學民思潮成員政總外紮營請願 (in Chinese). 30 August 2012.
- ^ 623政改聲明：全民普選 全民提名 重奪政府. Scholarism Facebook (in Chinese). 24 June 2013.
- ^ Lam, Jeffie (20 September 2013). "Public nomination shouldn't be the only way to elect CE: think tank". South China Morning Post.
External links
- 學民思潮 Scholarism
- Scholarism at Facebook
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