Save the Clock Protest

Hong Kong has been surrounded by controversy this week. On Saturday night, the government shut down the Star Ferry Pier a landmark of Hong Kong since the end of World War II. Another pier was built for the ferry about a block away further down the harbor. People are espcecially mad because the clock tower will be put in a museum not on the new ferry building. The clock was made by the same people who built Big Ben in London. These pictures were taken Saturday night a few hours before the last ferries would leave the old pier.

Posters protesting the destruction
of the clock tower.

Protestor. He had been hanging upside down
for an hour in protest of the clock removal.

Messages left by school children requesting
the clock be put on the new building.

Poster on the ground explaining that the Hong
Kong government was destroying living
history.

The clock tower.