Partners in Protest
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Parents, kids, aunties, uncles, and young lovers joined together to raise their fists in hope and defiance, their shouts of "Five demands! Not one less!" A simple hand gesture that has come to symbolize the pro-demoracy movement, FDNOL has been a steady refrain of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, representing the people's wishes for universal suffrage, police accountability, removal of a proposed China extradition law, declassifying protests as "riots" and freeing those held on charges of rioting. Subversive, pragmatic, and collective it has been a staple of the movement. December 8, 2019.