Asia - Bike ride for opposing the coterie elections & fighting for universal suffrage in HK

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Amuro Lee
01-07-09, 03:17 AM
The New Year Bicycle Ride is held by League of Social Democrats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Social_Democrats) on January 1st every year in Hong Kong protesting against the coterie elections and fighting for universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Conucil.

Here are the photos of the procession this year:
http://www.lsd.org.hk/gallery.asp?gallerytypeid=10105

http://appledaily.atnext.com/images/apple-photos/apple/20090102/large/02la5p105.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o74/amurolee/LSDNewYearBicycleRide2009.jpg


Photos of the processions in the past two years:

2007
http://www.lsd.org.hk/gallery.asp?gallerytypeid=10076
http://lsd.smahk.com//imageup/20088102134_2052_jpg.jpg

2008
http://www.lsd.org.hk/gallery.asp?gallerytypeid=10040
http://lsd.smahk.com//imageup/2008891254_1644_jpg.jpg

Amuro Lee
01-11-09, 10:25 AM
The reason for using bicycle rides for protest demonstrations:
http://daisann.com/2007/01/01/daan-che.aspx
Amuro Lee
02-08-09, 12:49 AM
A message from somebody:

"A parody of the current political situation, the bike parade serves as a manifold metaphor: the wheels of the bikes as the cliques to be stomped upon; the neverending pseudo-election as cyclical eternality like a bike running amok on the street.
Maybe a naughty degradation of the vehicles known as bicycles, it demonstrates the principled LSD’s never-boring methods of protest against the forgetful Hong Kong SAR government, with a cool display of many bikes on the street!"

However, I definitely disagree with him by saying bicycles is a degradation of the vehicles. :notamused: