ABSTRACT
In order to take noninstitutionalized actions, the local concern groups encountered three issues concerning the maintenance of the concern groups themselves, participation mobilization, and the choice of strategy. To understand the choice of mobilization strategy, this chapter focuses on the orientations and interpretations of the mobilization agents' situation, and the constraints they face. It starts with an examination of the three major mobilization agents in local concern groups, namely, the community social workers (CSWs), the volunteer organizers (VOs) and the indigenous leaders, with specific focus on their social positions, degree of commitment, and orientations toward local protest. The chapter discusses that the composition of the organizers, including the VOs and the CSWs, of the concern groups studied here is not typical of local protest groups or neighbourhood associations in Hong Kong. Unlike other protest groups which are only made up of paid CSWs and lay leaders, VOs are involved in these concern groups.
