Jamie kan PA manifesto

Jamie kan

For Public Affair Director (backup)

University of ManchesterManchester Hong Kong Public Affairs &Social Services Society Executive Committee 2022-2023 Manifesto

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Good friend, honest fellow. This is probably all you have to know about me. Out of all the identities I am and have been, I am still deep down a nice, honest and cringe person doing whatever I see right and worth fighting for. Yet, an important identity of mine that you should know about is a debater. I have been engaging in debate throughout my whole secondary school life, and the practice of debate have made me a critical, ambitious person. Too many problems around the world and within our society requires fixing and us solving in whatever way we can. We are in a very strange time in the history of world and Hong Kong, and you have met me through this manifesto in a very strange time of our lives. Let us pro-create strange, crazy and exciting things.

About me

involvement

contacts

• PA workshop organiser

• Easter ball promotion photographer
• Birmingham public speeking competition
• Manpass Detective game group leader
• York conference
• Manpass O-day
• Manpass day tour
• Manpass bubble day

Year 1 LLB Law with Politics Phone number: +852 90293053/ +44 7782973913 Email: sum.kan@student.manchester.ac.uk Linkedin: Jamie Kan Instagram: iamkandogxd

Relevant experience

Why me

• University of Manchester Law with Politics student representative
• Proposed secretary of University of Manchester Photography society
• Ying Wa College Debate society chairman
• Hong Kong Inter-school debate Challenge competition organising committee

• Ying Wa College Pohotography society chairman
• Ying Wa College House captain
• Ying Wa College Student Union committee member
• Hong Kong Joint School Chinese Debating Society member

I am a Hong Konger, I care about and I love this place. This passion itself is the reason you should vote for me to be the PA officer Studying law with politics gives me perspective, ability, and other strengths in people skills, taking up various roles in the past also gave me experiences, lessons and notes to jot. But who does not have experience from the past and lessons learnt from their course? In what I am proudly different from others is that I can see areas needed to be explored in the name of Manpass that others do not. I aspire asking questions, provoking discussions and having debate with people on the future of Hong Kong and the people in it. In the post-covid and post-2019 times, how can Hong Kong people move forward and nearer to our faith in justice, freedom and self-determination? We are Hong Kongers free from the restrictions in Hong Kong, if we do not speak up, who will?

Current Connections

• University of Leeds
• University of Birmingham
• University of York
• Univertsity of Toronto
• University of Cambridge
• University of Durham
• University of Exeter
• King's College London
• London School of Economics
• University of Warwick

Pledge

Raise awareness on Hong Kong and international political issues

• utilise social media platform to publish contents about Hong Kong public affairs.
• promote the study of Hong Kong culture and its evolution through the years (PA workshop)
• New initiative: Online-forum: Corrupttheyouth on Hong Kong’s capacity of imagination.
• New initiative: Letter-writing event to Hong Kong people in jail for social movements
• Raise awareness on international politic affairs (Ukraine, EU and more)
• Provoke discussions about Hong Kong identity, how is Hong Kong people adapting to new era and new environment.
• Promote debate on what path should Hong Kong people take for a better future.

Proposal

Online forum

• Proposed date: October
• Proposed speaker: Corrupttheyouth, 本土研究社
• Proposed venue: zoom and Facebook live
• Proposed topics: Hong Kong’s capacity of imagination: To revise the aim of Hong Kong people in 2019s movements, what can we learn from European political waves in 1990s and how can Hong Kong as a community evolve for a better future.
• Collaborating universities: University of Leeds, University of Birmingham, King’s College London, University of Toronto and more.
• Aim: To provoke discussion about Hong Kong’s future. Whilst more people turned pessimistic and chose to leave, many more remain hopeful and are willing to form together a future away from tyranny. What then, can we think, do and prepare, for such result.

稜角分明

To stand firm and unhesitated