About This Project
The Chinese Communist Party hates this project—because it brings people hope for a future without the CCP.
June 2024 marks five years since the start of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill protests in Hong Kong. As many as two million people marched in the streets that month, calling for liberty and justice, and an end to the CCP’s infringement on their rights.
The Lennon Wall has become an enduring symbol of the Hong Kong protests. A Lennon Wall is a place where people can express their feelings about Hong Kong, the protests, and the Chinese Communist Party.
This digital Hong Kong Lennon Wall project is a collaboration between China Uncensored and the Hong Kong Democracy Council. It was created so people around the world can honor the courage of Hong Kong protesters, and learn and share about the protest movement as it exists today.
Various Lennon Walls have been around since the 1980s, when people in communist Czechoslovakia created a wall with messages that included anti-communist, pro-freedom slogans, as well as ideas of peace inspired by the Beatles (including images of the recently assassinated John Lennon).
The first Hong Kong Lennon Wall was created during the 2014 Umbrella Movement, when protesters put up colored sticky notes with protest messages along a staircase leading up to the Hong Kong Central Government Complex.
During the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill protests in Hong Kong, protesters created hundreds of Lennon Walls around the city, to the great frustration of pro-Beijing authorities.
The Lennon Wall idea was replicated in public spaces and university campuses around the world to show support for Hongkongers.
On June 30, 2020, Lennon Walls became illegal under Beijing’s draconian Hong Kong National Security Law. Some people subtly showed support for the protest movement by displaying blank sticky notes. But authorities found blank notes too threatening, and soon banned those, too.
But authorities can’t ban an idea. And they can’t ban hope.
That’s why we created this digital Hong Kong Lennon Wall. It’s a place where you can leave your own messages, free from the danger of Hong Kong and Chinese authorities.
We have taken extra precautions to ensure the security of this website. In particular, when you submit a message, it is put through a multi-step process that removes all identifying information, including IP address, browser information, device type, and so on. (That is why you cannot edit your note after you submit it. There is no way to connect it with the person who submitted it.)
Go Hongkongers!
