Freedom How we lose it and how we fight back
Book - 2021
"A timely manifesto on freedom from Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee"--
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New York :
The Experiment
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "Originally published in Great Britain by the Penguin Random House Group Ltd, London.. First published in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 221 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781615198900
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Freedom, Refuge and Hope
- City of Migrants
- Why China's Aggression Matters
- From Refuge to Persecutor
- Chapter 2. The Erosion of Freedom
- The Hong Kong Story
- Peeling Freedom Erode
- My First 4 June Candlelight Vigil Experience
- Freedom Measured in Opposition
- A Free Press
- Living without Freedom
- Protecting Our Freedoms
- Chapter 3. Resistance and Civil Society
- Beginning My Activism
- Organizing Class Boycotts
- The Enemies of Dictators
- Silence Kills
- Taming Civil Society
- When Political Prophecy Becomes Reality
- Chapter 4. Rule by Law
- Being Elected a Legislator
- The Oath
- Hong Kong's Fundamental Contradiction
- Reclaiming Civic Square
- Whom Does the Law Serve?
- Looking Behind the Law
- Chapter 5. Disinformation and Division
- Divergent Paths
- Society Torn Apart
- State-Launched Smear Campaigns
- Who Owns Truth?
- Truth with 'Chinese Characteristics'
- Betraying Our Values
- Chapter 6. Believing in the Power of Change
- Everything Is Fine, Until It Is Not
- Fragile Democracies
- Beyond Economic Coercion
- Confronting Global Authoritarianism
- Conscience, Activism and 'Be Water'
- Being an Activist
- No Action Is Meaningless
- About the Authors