十月活动更新：南国街头与乡村的选举梦——回顾雨伞运动与乌坎事件
October Event Update: The dream of elections on South China Streets and in Villages—A Review of the Umbrella Movement and the Wukan Village
编者按：在当下美国大选即将来临之际，我们将在十月回顾曾在南国街头与村庄发生的两场关于民众渴望民主选举的艰难探索。我们以两部纪录片带大家重回十余年前：在雨伞运动中，香港市民要求真普选，以确保他们有权选择自己的领导人：香港未来属于人民；而在乌坎事件中，广东省陆丰市乌坎村的村民们为土地权益而抗争，争取地方选举，反对腐败的地方官员。让我们了解在不久前的中国，普通民众对选举作为表达意愿、实现政治参与的方式的强烈追求。
As the upcoming U.S. elections approach, we will review at two significant explorations of people's desire for democratic elections that took place on the streets and in villages in South China. Through two documentaries, we will review moments from more than a decade ago: during the Umbrella Movement, the Hong Kong people demanded genuine universal suffrage to ensure their right to choose their own leaders—the future of Hong Kong belongs to the people; and during the Wukan Protests, villagers in Wukan, Lufeng City, Guangdong Province, fought for their land rights and local elections, standing up against corrupt local officials. Let us reflect the strong desire of ordinary people to use elections as a means of expressing their will and achieving political participation in China not long ago .
10/11 香港雨傘運動十年《亂世備忘》栢克萊放映 Yellowing @Berkeley
10/18 乌坎事件纪录片 伯克利放映 Wukan documentary @Berkeley
2014 年於香港發生的雨傘運動，由年輕人主導策動：一呼百應之下，萬人佔領街道，以公民抗命的方式爭取民主普選。由此，從香港到全世界，雨傘運動可說是改變了我們看待香港前途的方式。脫離議論式的訪談評論，陳梓桓導演的《亂世備忘》沒有知名權威人士的斷言，而以最貼近活動當時的紀錄，為雨傘運動留下仔細的與緊貼運動發展的備忘錄。《亂世備忘》為2016金馬獎紀錄片提名作品，在日本山形國際紀錄片展獲得小川伸介賞，並入圍奧斯卡最佳紀錄片初選。
在雨傘革命十年之際，柏克萊加州大學香港事務組織將《亂世備忘》帶到三藩市灣區，邀請各位一起回顧這段屬於香港人的歷史。與此同時，我們榮幸邀請到特別嘉賓作映後分享。
Yellowing is a film by Chan Tze-woon that documents the 2014 Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong, as people took to the streets to demand genuine universal suffrage, among other calls for realizing Hong Kong people’s human rights. Yellowing went on to be nominated for the Taipei Golden Horse for best documentary of 2016, won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017, and was shortlisted in the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards (2019).
10 years after the Umbrella Revolution, the Hong Kong Affairs Association of Berkeley (HKAAB) would like to bring this documentary to be screened in the San Francisco Bay Area and we cordially invite everybody to learn more about this historic moment for Hong Kongers and democracy movements in the 21st century. We are also honored to have a special guest join us to share their thoughts and personal experiences after the screening.
Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles 粤语中英字幕
RSVP 報名可享优惠：
Guest Speaker 嘉賓: Find out at the screening!
随着即将到来的美国大选，擦星星事务所会在10月18日周五晚 7点于UC Berkeley 放映一场关于广东省乌坎事件的纪录片，回顾这场始于13年前中国南方农村的土地革命和民主参与。映后将有讨论环节，并有一位有村民选举经验并当选的特别嘉宾出席，欢迎大家分享感想以及你或祖辈所经历过的基层选举。
As the upcoming U.S. election approaches, we will be screening a documentary about the Wukan democracy experiments at UC Berkeley, on October 18 at 7 p.m. The film revisits this land revolution and democratic participation that began 13 years ago in a rural village in southern China. After the screening, there will be a discussion session with a special guests who has experience in village elections and was elected will be present. We welcome everyone to share their thoughts and experiences with grassroots elections, whether your own or the older generations in your family.
关于乌坎：
乌坎事件：九名村民被判有期徒刑2至10年 - BBC News 中文
許知遠：墜落的烏坎童話，是終結還是開端？ | 端傳媒Initium Media
About Wukan:
BBC News: China's Wukan village stands up for land rights
Al Jazeera: Wukan: The end of a democratic uprising in China
文案：GW OT Dudu GD 策划：GW OT HKAAB 编辑：Will GD
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