Last Week In Reality

Sat 14

Cat Celebre Celebrity cat Brother Cream shows his support for universal suffrage. Eight hundred participants walk past the convenience store where the animal lives in Tsim Sha Tsui East on the first daily 12-hour walk in support of Occupy Central. Brother Cream meows to them, causing a stir. People take photos of Brother Cream with a sign supporting Occupy Central, which is then widely shared on social media.

Sun 15

Che Longhair Currently behind bars for disrupting a public forum in 2011, “Longhair” Leung Kwok-hung is immortalized as Cuban freedom fighter Che Guevara in a poster seen in various districts, including Mong Kok, Kwun Tong, Kwai Tsing and Kowloon Bay. The politician is Photoshopped sporting Che’s hair and attire, with a poem in Chinese that says “Longhair won’t be cut short forever; justice will prevail.”

Mon 16

Occupy Playground A group of students at a Sha Tin primary school are threatening a sit-in if the school doesn’t halt plans to cut two of three recesses and introduce two-hour classes to make up for slow teaching progress. The protesting students stuck posters around the school, collected 400 signatures against the change and launched a Facebook page in protest. If the school doesn’t take back the changes, they say they will hold a sit-down protest in the playground.