ABSTRACT
In mid-September 2014, People Power, a pan-democratic political coalition in Hong Kong, responded to the call for the Occupy Central Movement by purchasing four mobile toilets, 2,000 drainage bags, 1,000 raincoats, and 1,000 packs of bread from taobao.com to prepare for the long-planned occupation. People Power also organized an order-keeping team of roughly 50 members to maintain the peace during the coming movement. People Power estimated that the occupation would not last long after it started on October 1. The police would clear the site within a couple of days, which was the same approach they had employed to deal with protestors who carried out an occupation rally as a trial between July 1 and 2, 2014. In this rally, the police cleared the site by arresting more than 500 participants. In the forthcoming occupation, mobile toilets and drainage bags would be required because the protestors were believed to be surrounded by the police. 1 Nevertheless, similar to People Power, very few people, including the founders of the Occupy Central Movement, the Hong Kong government, and the Chinese central government, expected that the movement would last for nearly 80 days after it started on September 28, 2014.
