Occupy Central with Love and Peace
| 讓愛與和平佔領中環 | |
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| Abbreviation | OCLP (和平佔中) |
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| Established | 27 March 2013 |
| Purpose | The election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong beginning in 2017 by universal suffrage consistent with accepted international standards. |
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The Occupy Central trio:
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| Website | oclp |
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| Traditional Chinese | 讓愛與和平佔領中環 | ||||||||||||
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| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Ngiong4 Oi4 Yi4 Fo2pin4 Zam4liang1 Zung1van2 |
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| Yale Romanization | Yeuhng oi yúh wòh pìhng jim líhng jūng wàahn |
| Jyutping | Joeng6 Oi3 Jyu5 Wo4ping4 Zim3ling5 Zung1waan4 |
| Civil Referendum | |
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| Location | Hong Kong |
| Date | 20 – 29 June 2014 |
| Voting system | Majority voting |
| For CE Election 2017, I support OCLP to submit this proposal to the Government: | |
| If the government proposal cannot satisfy international standards allowing genuine choices by electors, LegCo should veto it, my stance is: | |
Occupy Central (Chinese: 佔領中環 or 佔中) was a civil disobedience campaign initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, and advocated by Occupy Central with Love and Peace (organisation; OCLP; 讓愛與和平佔領中環 or 和平佔中). In the course of the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform, OCLP intends to pressure the PRC Government into granting an electoral system which "satisf[ies] the international standards in relation to universal suffrage" in Hong Kong Chief Executive election in 2017 as promised according to the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 45. Should such an electoral system not be achieved, OCLP sought to fight for equal suffrage in Hong Kong through civil disobedience means, namely the non-violent occupation of Central.
In 2013 and 2014, OCLP organised three sessions for deliberation and a civic referendum on the voting system to use for the election of the chief executive in 2017. It then submitted to the government the proposal that citizens selected in the referendum. As a response to Beijing's rejection of the proposal, OCLP originally planned to launch the protest campaign on 1 October 2014, the National Day of the People's Republic of China. However, OCLP announced the commencement of Occupy Central on 28 September, in the midst of the heated week-long class boycott organised by Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) and Scholarism. The student strikes developed into a wave of demonstrations, which led to civil disobedience and an occupy movement of unprecedented scale. The protests gradually developed into a non-centralised occupy movement spreading to several areas of Hong Kong that was largely organised by volunteers. OCLP stated that the ongoing protest "[was] the Umbrella Movement, not 'Occupy Central'" and referred to themselves as supporters rather than the organisers of the protest. OCLP was disbanded by the founders when they surrendered to the police in December 2014.
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