{"id":157321,"date":"2010-01-09T03:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T08:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2010-01-09T03:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T08:23:27","slug":"the-26-steps-people-power-rises-in-hong-kong-and-lessons-for-canadians-re-prorogation-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/157321","title":{"rendered":"The 26 Steps: People Power Rises in Hong Kong (and lessons for Canadians re prorogation of Parliament)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve read and am reflecting on my friend Daisann’s insightful report, “The 26 Steps: People Power Rises in Hong Kong<\/a><\/strong>“. Although the issues are widely different, I think there are lessons and strategies applicable to Canadians’ anit-prorogation rally across Canada and in Calgary<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here is a brief excerpt from “The 26 Steps<\/a>“,<\/p>\n

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“These students marched around and around the Legislative Council building for hours. It was the most moving part of this multi-dimensional demonstration. Slowly and deliberately, like monks in Vipassana meditation, they made their way forward to the beat of a loud drum. Every 26 steps they halted in unison, and fell prostrate to the ground in silence. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Why 26 steps? Because the 67 billion dollar railway link to China’s high-speed railway network that the Hong Kong government wants to, um, railroad through the legislature would extend exactly 26 kilometers.<\/strong> That’s 2.57 billion taxpayer dollars per kilometer. At a time when the wealth gap between rich and poor in Hong Kong is one of the greatest in the world, the government wants to build a project that would cost the equivalent of taking 10,000 from the pockets of each Hong Kong citizen.”<\/p>\n

[…] And they know this: when democracy fails […] you have to take matters into your own hands. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

P.S.<\/strong> It is ironical that even the farcically elected chief executive of Hong Kong<\/a> dare NOT to shutdown the legislature (nor such power exist for him to do so).<\/p>\n

It is funny in Canada, our Prime Minister is such a chess master that he felt he could simply outmaneuver Canadians (twice), shutdown democracy, and we won’t care nor do anything to challenge him. For the sake of Canada, I hope Prime Minister Harper<\/a> is wrong.<\/p>\n

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I’ve read and am reflecting on my friend Daisann’s insightful report, “The 26 Steps: People Power Rises in Hong Kong“. Although the issues are widely different, I think there are lessons and strategies applicable to Canadians’ anit-prorogation rally across Canada and in Calgary. Here is a brief excerpt from “The 26 Steps“, “These students marched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}