USA TODAY:…Organizers said those arrested at government headquarters included Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old leader of the activist group Scholarism, who was dragged away by four officers. Wong, a recent high school graduate, gained prominence two years ago after he organized protests that forced the Hong Kong government to back off plans to introduce a Chinese national education curriculum that some feared was a form of brainwashing.
“Our movement is peaceful and does not use aggression,” said University of Hong Kong students’ union president Yvonne Leung. “Students who decided to storm inside (the government complex) knew about their legal responsibility.”
The student protest was organized independently of Occupy Central, an alliance of pro-democracy activists that plan to blockade Hong Kong’s financial district to call for genuine democratic reforms… (more)
EDITOR: Much of the good that is accomplished in our world can be traced back to a few brave, dedicated individuals, hardly known in their time and usually long since forgotten.
