Time to negotiate before it ends tonight and go home. #occupyhk #umbrellamovement

I been texting and calling my friends about there whereabouts. I wonder how many of them plan to be there in the last moments of the protests.

Who knows if the Chinese government will deploy their nasty triads to hurt the protesters.

With the ultimatum by the HK government that the streets has to be cleared in Monday, we know they will deploy riot police.

I really think my friends need to go home. We are adults now. There are children and jobs, and mortgages to pay. It’s time to let the young take over. They are idealistic, strong and have much less to lose if they are hurt. If they want to stay to the end, they should.

But politically it’s time to negotiate. Once everyone goes home there will be no leverage at all. It would be so much better if the students can promise they will leave if they can get some concessions in regard to the 2017 elections. That will for the government a choice to whether give way a little bit and end peacefully thatn deploy riot police leaving a even worse police and public relations and the horrible images of police attacking the unarmed students.

When people are home. There never will be talks of any meaning.