The protest that would become Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, a largely peaceful 79-day pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign, began with class boycotts on September 22, 2014. A protester looks up during a pro-democracy protest outside the Hong Kong government headquarters on September 26, 2014. Police use pepper spray in an attempt to disperse pro-democracy protesters near the government headquarters in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters face police officers as they wait for Hong Kong chief executive outside the Legislative Counsel Office, on October 2, 2014 in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters and bystanders gather around a police line in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on October 17, 2014.