Alex Chow Yong-kang is a social activist from Hong Kong and current doctoral candidate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students and a former Vice-President (External) of the Hong Kong University Students' Union.
Chow on grant of bail, 7 October 2017
Alex Chow in February 2015
Alex Chow addresses Occupy Central Crowd, 2 October 2014 17:54
Alex Chow at a forum
The Umbrella Movement was a political movement that emerged during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Its name arose from the use of umbrellas as a tool for passive resistance to the Hong Kong Police's use of pepper spray to disperse the crowd during a 79-day occupation of the city demanding more transparent elections, which was sparked by the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPCSC) of 31 August 2014 that prescribed a selective pre-screening of candidates for the 2017 election of Hong Kong's chief executive.
Umbrella banner, Admiralty, Hong Kong, 29 September 2014
4,000–5,000 people gathered outside Chinese Embassy in London to support the protests in Hong Kong on 1 October 2014.
Volunteer-organized recycling station on Harcourt Road, Admiralty, inside the occupation zone
Umbrella art strung between two footbridges