Social Movement Research Paper

Social Movement Research Paper

 

 

Social Movement Research Paper

Paper Details Research a nonviolent social movement which is not explored in class. Use multiple perspectives to evaluate the cultural context, goals, strategies, and achievements and/or failures of the movement. Identify the conflict and the values behind the movement. What was/is at stake for the movement? Use a minimum of six (6) cited credible and academically appropriate sources for your paper. Present to the class on your research in a professional style, in a well organized speech with visual aids. In the process of creating this presentation write a 5-8 page paper and 1 works cited page which you will turn in as your final.
(This is the part I did )
Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong )
The campaign became known as the Umbrella Revolution or Umbrella Movement, referring to the shield of choice used to fend off police pepper spray.

 

How does it happenHong Kong is a former British colony of 7 million people and it has been governed under a “one country, two systems” framework since it was handed back to Chinese control in 1997. The principle is simple in theory — Beijing is responsible for the city’s defense and foreign affairs.
Its top political post – that of chief executive – is chosen by a “nominating committee” of 1,200 people, most of them from pro-Beijing elites. Yet when Beijing regained control over the city, it promised that the region would be able to elect its top leader by universal suffrage by 2017. The group guiding the current protests – set up 18 months ago by two professors and a Baptist minister under the banner Occupy Central with Love and Peace — threatened to paralyze the city’s central business district if Beijing broke its word.

 

 

 

Hong Kong is one of the world’s most important financial hubs,
What do the protesters want?They demand Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying resign and that Beijing retract its decision on the city’s 2017 chief executive poll, which would restrict the number of candidates to two or three approved by a 1,200-strong nominating committee.
Protesters want the right to nominate and directly elect the head of the Hong Kong government, known as the chief executive.
As a secondary demand, protesters want the current chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, to resign, which he has flatly refused to do. Leung is widely disliked because he is seen as prioritizing China’s interests over Hong Kong’s.He was also indirectly elected by an electoral college of just 1,200 voters, of which 689 voted for him. He is mockingly referred to as “689” after this feeble tally.

Does everyone in Hong Kong support this movement?

The umbrella movement are led primarily by university and senior high school students.

 

According to a HK-wide survey, 60% of the 15- to 24-year-old people are respondents to support the Umbrella Movement, in contrast to less than 30% of those over 40 years old.The older generation are actively opposed to the movements because they are afraid of antagonizing China. They remember the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen uprising in Beijing in 1989, and point to the currently harsh political climate in China, and conclude that Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution is doomed.

why doesn’t China just let Hong Kong have more freedom?
The Communist Party insists on maintaining political control.It isn’t about to let China’s most international city — which is already highly porous — choose its own leader, in case an opponent of the Communist Party gets elected as chief executive and becomes an advertisement to the rest of China of the possibility of democratic change.
At the same time, Beijing is aware that Hong Kong, because of its past as a British territory, is a special case.Hong Kong has an independent judiciary, common law, freedom of information and movement, a reasonably free press and so on.The Communist Party thinks this semi autonomy should be enough for Hong Kong, but a well-educated and well-traveled generation of young Hong Kongers wants more.They have always enjoyed Western-style freedoms and want the political enfranchisement that comes with it.

 

The impact Observers have believed that the implications of the Umbrella Movement are greatest for Taiwan, because Beijing has said that Taiwan will be reunified under the same formula that it used for Hong Kong (one-country, two systems).
the vast majority of Taiwan citizens have long since rejected one-country, two systems.