Democracy Groundwork
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Dr the Honourable Lau Siu-lai |
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| 劉小麗 | |
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Wong Yuk-man |
| Constituency | Kowloon West |
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| Born |
Lau Siu-lai 3 August 1976 Hong Kong |
| Citizenship | Hong Kong permanent resident |
| Nationality | Hong Kong Chinese |
| Political party | Democracy Groundwork |
| Residence | Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Lecturer |
| Known for | Siu-lai teacher |
| Website | Official website of Democratic Groundwork |
Lau Siu-lai (Chinese: 劉小麗; born 3 August 1976) is a Hong Kong activist and politician. She is a sociology lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Hong Kong Community College and the founder of Democracy Groundwork and Age of Resistance. In 2016 Lau was elected to the Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency.
Lau holds a bachelor’s degree in social science, a master of philosophy in sociology, and a PhD in cultural sociology and historical sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She worked as a tutor at the Chinese University for a decade before joining the faculty of the Hong Kong Community College. Lau taught a variety of sociology classes including Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theories, Hong Kong Society, Medical Society, Social Problems, and Gender Issues.
She gained prominence establishing Democracy Groundwork to hold "Democracy Classrooms" during the 2014 pro-democratic protests, teaching protesters about social justice and democracy. In this role she earned the moniker "Teacher Siu-lai" (Chinese: 小麗老師).
Lau has challenged the Hong Kong government's suppression of hawking, and the crackdown on the traditional Kweilin Street Night Market, on the grounds that government policies toward street trading serves to bolster the hegemony of Hong Kong's dominant property conglomerates while unjustly persecuting the poor. Lau has hawked food herself, as an act of civil disobedience, in support of hawkers. She has organised street markets in Mei Foo, Sham Shui Po and Wong Tai Sin to demonstrate that hawking can be conducted in an orderly manner. She urges the government to once again issue hawker licences, and to allow street markets throughout the territory to provide more choice to consumers.
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