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On 12 February, Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s administration first proposed the extradition bill. Pan-democrat legislators were quick to voice their opposition to it. On 31 March, the Civil Human Rights Front (a front of more than fifty organisations, most of them civil associations and trade unions, hereafter, the ‘Civil Front’) hosted its first rally, claiming 12,000 participants. After a month of education and agitation, the next rally on 28 April increased tenfold in size. Without this preparation it would not have been possible to wake up the yellow camp or the young generation – they were still largely demoralised after the defeat in 2014. This is to the credit of the pan-democrats and the Civil Front who came out to oppose the bill, but it was also obvious that they were not optimistic about their fight.