“…The Umbrella Movement shared many characteristics of social movements that have sprung up in recent years in the United States (Bennett, 2012;Castells, 2012;Juris, 2012), Egypt (Arditi, 2012;Castells, 2012;Tufekci & Wilson, 2012), Spain, Turkey, Mexico (Rovira Sancho, 2014), Guatemala (Harlow, 2012), and Chile (Valenzuela, Arriagada, & Scherman, 2012). These movements differed from the norms and rituals of conventional social movements and operated with a new "self-help" and "self-actualization" ethos.…”