num_pages: 288
description: 'Joshua Wong is the future that has already come. ... Together we are one loud voice that cannot be silenced.'  Greta Thunberg'If we want freedom we need to learn from Hong Kong. With values tactics and courage Joshua Wong shows us the way.'  Timothy Snyder- Introduction by Ai Weiwei - An urgent manifesto for global democracy from the leading 23-year-old Hong Kong activist - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME Forbes and Fortune world leader.At what point do you stand up to power?When he was 14 Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education  and won.Since then Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement founded a political party and rallied the international community around the anti-Extradition Bill protests which have seen 2 million people  more than a quarter of the population  take to Hong Kongs streets. His actions have sparked worldwide attention earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and landed him in jail twice.Composed in three parts Unfree Speech chronicles Joshuas path to activism collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner and closes with a powerful and urgent call for all of us globally to defend our democratic values.When we stay silent no one is safe. When we free our speech our voice becomes one.
language: English
title: Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
publisher: WH Allen