1 July March

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The march was also a strong showing of the public demand for democracy.  It is obvious that many protesters support the “occupy central” movement which is poised to take place if no real democracy roadmap is rolled out by the Government. People are fed up with the snail’s pace of the city’s progress towards democracy.

They shouted “down with 698″, mocking CY Leung was elected by a select group of 698 people in a population of 7 million.

I saw so many people putting money into the movement’s donation boxes. It was later revealed that the movement had collected $0.8M donation during the rainy march, much higher than expected.

CY Leung was so scared of the movement that he claimed earlier his government would suppress the illegal movement. And the police recently arrested a volunteer of the movement, whom the police said participated in illegal assembly two years ago on 1 July, raising questions why the volunteer was not arrested earlier, but only now. It is any reasonable person’s belief that she was persecuted for political reason.

It was estimated that about 100,000 people have turned out for the 1 July march despite the typhoon weather.

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Source: http://annatam.com/1-july-march/