{"id":14626,"date":"2017-04-28T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2017-04-28T23:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:14:37","slug":"hong-kong-stop-stop-sexism-stop-stop-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/04\/28\/14626\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: \u201cStop, stop sexism, Stop, stop Trump!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Report of International Women\u2019s Day protests in Hong Kong<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Joy Pamnani, HKU student<\/p>\n<p>As tweets flooded social media to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day overseas, Hong Kongers celebrated by gathering at Chater Garden on March 8, 2017, to protest amongst other things against Trump\u2019s administration in the US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14622\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/04\/iwd-2017-e1493383525756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was organised by Socialist Action and Anti-Trump Hong Kong, gathering people of different races and backgrounds, including locals, refugees and migrant workers, to voice their anger on Trump\u2019s policies and fight for women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day is only once a year, and I came here to show my support for these causes today,\u201d said Griffith Jones, one of the demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration began with slogan chanting, followed by sharings from local women, refugees and political groups. Many issues were brought into light including sexual abuse, abortion, wage gaps and workplace discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The first speaker was Rina, a refugee, who shared the importance of uniting in fighting for a global cause. Lucia, a local speaker, told the awful experience of her sister being raped by a staff member at a mental care home, and the refusal of the police to investigate or stop the abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Mira spoke about women\u2019s oppression in Indonesia. Women are afraid to speak up in cases of sexual abuse in their marriages. If a divorce is filed, they are afraid the man will keep the kids. So they keep quiet, she said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t support Trump, because he doesn\u2019t like refugees,\u201d said Edna, one of the protestors, who brought her child to the demonstration. Another protestor was concerned about the effects of Trump\u2019s policies on the relationship between the US, China and other Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>Between the sharings, the group marched to the US Consulate from Chater Garden in an orderly manner, chanting slogans such as \u201cNo Ban, No Wall, Donald Trump has to Fall\u201d, \u201cStop, Stop Racism. Stop, Stop Sexism\u201d and \u201cTax the Rich\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Socialist Action statement, the International Women\u2019s Strike was supported in almost fifty countries on International Women\u2019s Day. A video was also played as part of the demonstration, showing footage of International Women\u2019s Day and post-Trump inauguration protests across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration concluded with powerful closing remarks from one of the organisers, Vincent Kolo from Socialist Action. \u201cWhen you all heard Donald Trump was elected President, weren\u2019t you shocked? How could this be possible?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent spoke of how Trump\u2019s policies threaten to take women\u2019s\u2019 rights a step back, especially as Trump is challenging abortion rights. \u201cThe US Political system is broken, with both main parties supporting Wall Street and the 1 percent who are billionaires. We need a political force that represents the 99 percent, those who aren\u2019t represented by the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ending on a positive note, he likened the International Women\u2019s Day struggle to the Russian Revolution, where women went on strike against dictator Tsar Nicholas starting a movement that succeeded in overthrowing his rule. \u201cThe Russian revolution proves nothing can defeat a united working class movement and we will succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report of International Women\u2019s Day protests in Hong Kong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":14622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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