Protesters at HSBC should call it a day
Foreign domestic helpers, having spent six days looking after Hong Kong families, children and pets, occupy pavements, walkways and parks in Central on Sundays. They meet friends and relatives, socialise, and share food, news and gossip.
We now have another gathering - the Occupy Central group. These 40 or so protesters have occupied the ground floor beneath HSBC's headquarters, squeezing the migrant workers out to the periphery.
The protesters, now in dwindling numbers, have occupied the ground floor space of the HSBC since October. The very bank they are angry about gives them a comfortable squatting space beneath its headquarters tower. But all the paraphernalia of a home away from home - tents, sleeping bags, sofas, bicycles, bookshelves, guitars, tables, stools, computers, laundry, a generator, a clothes line, and a mini-kitchen - make this a most unpleasant sight in our lovely city.
It is a noble gesture that a group of our citizens demonstrated, showed their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement with placards, slogans and waving of fists, denouncing the greed of our own banks and other corporations.
I sympathise with the demonstrators and admire their cause. 'Greed' has indeed spread around the world.
A placard reads '1% holds the wealth of the world', but looking at the occupiers one Sunday afternoon last month did not give me much hope for a successful outcome of snatching anything from that 1 per cent.
