Introduction

The umbrella movement is a revolution started in Hong Kong China in the year 2014(Ortmann, 2015).The movement carried out protests that involved mass disobedience. The protests were against the proposed reforms to the electoral system in Hong Kong. The decision prompting the protests was made by the National people’s Congress’ standing committee (Chan, 2014). The protestors regarded the decisions as tantamount and highly restrictive to the communist party. A strike by the students in the Hong Kong Federation was against the decisions by the NPCS’s (Bhatia, 2015). They were protesting about more political freedom in the country and used umbrellas as their symbol. The umbrellas were used for protection from the pepper spray by the police who tried to disperse the protestors (Lim, 2015). The media dubbed the protests as the umbrella movement as the nickname. However, the attacks by policemen by using tear gas triggered more citizens to join the protests increasing the number of the movement in size (Chan, 2014). Protests and activities by the movement were denounced and termed as illegal by the government. The movement was dominated by many young members who voluntarily joined it having a strong political consciousness (Bhatia, 2015). The protestors opened umbrellas whenever they felt threatened by the police. Many people were injured and killed during the protests. The urge and self-motivation by the young people could not deter them from fighting for political freedom in the country (Ortmann, 2015).