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This is, for sure, definitely not the end of the movement, Alex Chow, a leader from the Hong Kong Federation of Students, told The Telegraph. This mornings act is only part of the movement.

As police pushed slowly towards the heart of the protest camp where the so-called Umbrella Movement began in late September tearful protesters began clearing the multicoloured tents in which some have lived for weeks.

It is my birthday today but it is also the saddest birthday in my life, said Benjamin Ng, a 44-year-old church worker. I feel very conflicted about what to do today I want to sit down and be arrested but I know my family worry about me and I also want to study in the UK at some point so I had better not be arrested.

Rose Tang, a student activist during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests said she had flown in from New York to witness the Hong Kong demonstrations up close.

This has been the most special camping trip I have ever been on, Ms Tang said.

It has been a meaningful journey, said Connie Mak, a 20-year-old student protester. We are only moving to the next stage of resistance.

The Umbrella Movement began in late September after calls for Beijing to give Hong Kong citizens a greater say in the election of their leader triggered street protests and clashes with police. The movement, which at its peak drew more than 100,000 people onto the streets, was named after the instrument protesters used to shield themselves from police pepper spray and tear gas.

Seventy-five days after the movement began, students have been unable to squeeze concessions out of officials in either Beijing or Hong Kong. Pro-Beijing media have described the campaign as an abject failure.

The government had been prudent in responding to the illegal movement and had ultimately won, said Zou Pingxue, a Chinese law professor who has been widely quoted criticising protestors in the mainland media.

The only success of this movement that I can think of is that it has taught residents of Hong Kong that trying to pursue democracy out of the normal legal framework is not real democracy, added Prof Zou, from Shenzhen University. It is impossible to attain the highest level [of democracy] in just one step.

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The recent news that St. Lawrence Church of Tampa won permission from the Cuban government to start building the first new Catholic Church in Cuba since it embraced Communism in 1959 has many hoping for more religious freedom in the island nation.

But in a visit to Tampa this week, an outspoken religious leader who lives in Cuba advised people against getting their hopes up.

Cuba uses religion to further politics, said Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso, a Baptist pastor of Ebenezer Church in Taguayabon, Cuba.

The Cuban government, Lleonart Barroso said, forces religious leaders to propagate its own message that Communism works in the best interests of the people along with the word of God. Religious leaders who say otherwise risk losing their churches.

So the new Catholic Church to be located in Sandino, he said, amounts to a new weapon for the Cuban government.

The Rev. Ramon Hernandez of St. Lawrence Church, who spoke with the Tribune recently about the drive to raise money for the church and his own upbringing in Cuba, could not be reached for comment Wednesday on this view of the governments motives in allowing him to proceed.

Lleonart Barroso was in Tampa as keynote speaker at a luncheon hosted by United for Human Rights, a Los Angeles-based education group.

The luncheon celebrated the 66th anniversary of the signing at the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The event was held inside the Church of Scientologys Ybor City headquarters.

Gracia Bennish, United for Human Rights president and a member of the Church of Scientology, said the church publishes her organizations materials but has no other link to it.

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Workers, Workers Movements, and 21ST Century Socialism: Where We Are At and Where to Go
Moving Beyond Capitalism conference San Miguel de Allende, Mexico July, 29 - August, 3 2014 http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/moving_beyond_capitalism1.

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Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- British and Peruvian organizations posted special write-ups on their websites on Dec. 2 on the occasion of the third anniversary of demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy posted an article titled "Leader Kim Jong Il Maintained Socialist Principle" with his photo.

The article said:

Kim Jong Il was a great leader who inherited the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung and defended socialism despite adversities.

He was the only person in the world who held fast to the banner of socialism in such difficult situation.

He authored many works including "Socialism Is a Science" and "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable" to clarify not only the cause and lesson from the frustration of socialism in some countries but scientific accuracy and lawfulness of the victory of socialism.

His works serve as guidelines most valuable for the revolutionary people following socialism.

He beat back the imperialists' ever-increasing moves to stifle the DPRK and provided a turning point for building a thriving socialist country. He turned the DPRK into a fortress of human cause of independence.

The Peruvian-Korean Institute of Culture and Friendship posted articles titled "Third Anniversary of Demise of Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong Il" and "Mt. Paektu and Kim Jong Il".

The articles praised his noble revolutionary career in which he made undying exploits for the country, people and times and history under the banner of Juche and Songun.

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