The focus on Occupy Hong Kong
November 7, 2014
“Arise! All those who refuse to be slaves!” This comes from the first line of the People’s Republic of China’s National Anthem, “March of the Volunteers,” creating a sense of revolution among individuals. This amended anthem follows the one that was changed in 1982 with the...
Time for a new Free Speech Movement
September 30, 2014
In the beginning, there was the idea that “power” was with the people. Social change was to be the defiant byproduct created by swaths of citizens collectively creating a larger voice. This aim would make the dominant institutions tremble into submission. Those were days of hopeful visions of civil and s...
