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Content: The march resulted in an occupation of the forecourt of the government headquarters, now known as the ‘Civic Square’, and lasted several months. In August, three student leaders started hunger strikes. Seeing the unpopularity of the new proposal and fearing the adverse reaction to images of teenagers on hunger strike, the government first announced that the new curriculum would not be mandatory, and soon after, a temporary withdrawal of the proposal. Scholarism joined the Occupy protests in 2014, went defunct in 2016, but its core members, including Wong, later founded political party Demosisto. The Anti-Express Rail Link Movement
The controversy began in 2008 when the government unveiled a formal proposal for the 26km express rail link with mainland China terminating in West Kowloon. The initiative required the demolition and relocation of the farm village Tsoi Yuen Tsuen. Protestors cited social dislocation, cost, noise pollution, customs and border control complications, and existing rail links as reasons for their opposition. When the Legislative Council started to discuss the government’s funding request for the project, protesters performed a “prostrating walk” around the Legco building, in which participants knelt and touched the ground with their heads every 26 steps to symbolise the length of the rail link. Villagers perform a symbolic walk against the high-speed rail link. The climax came when lawmakers were set to approve funding on January 26, 2010.