The Purpose Of A Civil Disobedience Campaign: Occupy Central

Occupy Central, also known as The Umbrella Movement, is a civil disobedience campaign initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting. Occupy Central’s main purpose was to pressure the government into changing the electoral system that called for equal suffrage. Equal suffrage, also known as universal suffrage, is the right to vote for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country.Where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by sex, race, social status, education level, or wealth.
This year, voters in Hong Kong went to the polls this month and chose about hundreds of local spokespeople in the first election, especially since worry about China’s influence over the electoral process set off monumental protests and conflict