Occupy Central organizers have done their best to distance themselves from the anti-mainland movement and keep the focus on election reform and universal suffrage. Addressing the crowd in Tsim Sha Tsui, Caleb Lam, 27, tried to keep things positive. “All you tourists, Hong Kong welcomes you,” he said into the microphone. “I’m glad you’re here to witness this.” Offstage, he told me that many protesters have been taking the mic to rail against mainlanders. “It happens all the time,” he said. “We try to get them offstage.”
But pro-democracy ideas and anti-mainland sentiment can be difficult to tease apart in Hong Kong.
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