Over a month since demonstrations started on the streets of Hong Kong calling for full democracy, images of umbrellas are still trending online - but protestors have focussed in on one umbrella in particular.
Re "Jordan's King Undercuts Pro-Democracy Image by Reshuffling His Government" (news article, Dec. 23): The recent decision to dissolve the lower house of parliament was an important and necessary step to reform the electoral law.
Whether in advertising, film, performing arts, the internet or the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, images of queer sexualities and cultures now circulate around the globe" [ 1].
In a region where the shadow of past coups still falls over weak democracies, the image of Honduran soldiers arresting and expelling an elected president raised fears that it would embolden militaries in other countries.
Twenty-five yeafterfthe Tiananmen Squareuare massacre, in which Beijing violently cracked down on a peaceful student protest for democracy, the images of umbrellas, which so far have not been censored on social media, have come to represent a movement.
A frontiersman, a general, the first president from west of the Alleghenies, the first self-made man to take up residence in the White House, Jackson shaped modern American democracy in the image of his own egalitarianism.
His speech, which was televised, invoked American democracy, with biblical images of a righteous pilgrimage and a commitment to justice and equality for all.
Take a look at some of your images: Democracy Day: Your protest posters and Democracy Day: A week in protests.
Scores of people ran a marathon in support of the students early on Saturday, and bridges remained festooned with umbrellas, protest art demanding full democracy and satirical images lampooning Leung Chun-ying, the city's Beijing-backed leader.
Its pursuit of stability above democracy has damaged its image, but it can make amends now.
We shall fragment the South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of democracy".
