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    Part 1:

    [live] Occupy Central Civil Disobedience Movement (Umbrella Revolution)


    Part 2:

    [live] Occupy Central Civil Disobedience Movement (Umbrella Revolution)

    An excerpt from the top link:


    Earlier this evening in London, in chronological order (SCROLL DOWN!)


    Public event held at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

    Hong Kong: the struggle at the end of history - 02 - 2015 - Events - Public events - Home

    The guest speakers were:

    Conor Gearty(@conorgearty), Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE


    Raymond Li, Editor for BBC Chinese


    Danny Quah (@DannyQuah), Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE


    Isabella Steger (@stegersaurus), Hong Kong-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal


    Dr. Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor at LSE's Department of Anthropology and Director Designate for LSE's South Asia Centre


    Recording of this event will be made available here: Public Lectures and Events: podcasts and videos - Public lectures and events - Channels - Video and audio - News and media - Home
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    http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/...campaign/?_r=0

    Gong Ke, the president of Nankai University in the northern port city of Tianjin, told the People’s Daily website that the allegations that universities were infested with subversion evoked dangerous parallels to the two worst purges of intellectuals in the People’s Republic of China: the Anti-Rightist Movement of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution a decade later.

    “Recently, I’ve read people on the Internet saying that the ranks of academics must be cleansed, purified and rectified,” Mr. Gong said. “I can’t agree with this. This was the mentality of 1957 or 1966.”

    According to the People’s Daily website, Mr. Gong warned, “In enhancing ideological work, we cannot go to another extreme. We cannot re-enact this history of ‘leftist’ errors against intellectuals.”
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    China’s campaign against “Western influence” in universities is really aimed at its own professors – Quartz

    Criticism has gotten to the point that the central propaganda department has issued a directive to local media to take care to “suitably disseminate” Yuan’s points. The lawyer’s blog post has been censored from Chinese social media.
    The criticism highlights the fact that campaign is likely more about monitoring China’s academics and public intellectuals than stripping out Western influence.
    After all, Chinese officials often proudly discuss their familiarity with Western history, literature, and philosophy.

    In Paris last year, Chinese president Xi Jinping listed the many French writers he had read, claiming “by reading Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Saint-Simon, Fourier and Sartre, I have deepened my understanding of how progress of the mind propels progress in society.”

    As a student at Peking University, premier Li Keqiang translated The Due Process of Law by the English jurist Lord Denning.
    Rogier Creemers, of the Oxford China Centre, pointed out in recent commentary that China’s academics may be targeted because they are arguably the most internationalized professional group in China and also have influence over the country’s policymaking process.
    It may not be long before more provinces follow the lead of Guizhou, which has ordered its universities to install cameras in classrooms.
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    Relates to post #1809 on pg 181

    Official confirmation from Scholarism.

    Joshua Wong will arrive in Los Angeles on Feb 18th - evening.

    He will speak at UCLA on Feb 23rd.

    UCLA will also have a screening of "Lessons in Dissent" on the same day.

    Prior to that, on Feb 20th, he will do a Q&A for the screening of "Lessons in Dissent" at the California Institute of the Arts - organized by Bérénice Reynaud.

    Director Matthew Torne will also be in attendance.