https://www.scmp.com/rss/501173/feed Jonathan Pinckney is a research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the author of ‘When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy after Popular Nonviolent Uprisings’ en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The massive demonstrations against the amendment to Hong Kong’s extradition law draw on a long tradition of dissent in the city. Yet they also represent several unique changes in protest movements worldwide. The march on June 9 by as many as a million participants may have been the largest in Hong Kong’s history, and the subsequent clashes on June 12 were an unprecedented escalation of police violence. The demonstrations also displayed a significant degree of self-organisation, with coordinating... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3014605/can-hong-kongs-extradition-protesters-succeed-without-leader?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3014605/can-hong-kongs-extradition-protesters-succeed-without-leader?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:00:18 +0000