Popping the Red Pill: Hong Kong Professionals Get Organized for Democracy Post-Occupy

Hong Kong’s professionals barely, if ever, let their thoughts stray to politics. This year though, the switch was flipped.
Popping the Red Pill: Hong Kong Professionals Get Organized for Democracy Post-Occupy
Lawyers march in defense of judicial independence in Hong Kong on June 27, 2014. Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
Larry Ong
Journalist
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Hong Kong’s professionals barely, if ever, let their thoughts stray to politics. This year though, the switch was flipped.

Over the past several weeks, doctors, lawyers, and financiers have started forming pro-democracy groups, seemingly spontaneously.

More than a dozen young doctors founded Médecins Inspirés late last December.

"Before the Occupy movement, Hong Kong professionals rarely got openly involved in pro-democracy activism."
— Ching Cheong, veteran Hong Kong journalist
Larry Ong
Larry Ong
Journalist
Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.
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