Tonight you could walk for miles in Hong Kong and not find a gap in the human chain (except when the light turned red at a crosswalk; this is a civilized city!). A very uplifting show of unity by all Hong Kongerspic.twitter.com/lvVzxdBYjF
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Tonight you could walk for miles in Hong Kong and not find a gap in the human chain (except when the light turned red at a crosswalk; this is a civilized city!). A very uplifting show of unity by all Hong Kongerspic.twitter.com/lvVzxdBYjF
Found this majestic beast reacting to protesters' chants (and the arrival of kibble)pic.twitter.com/XfqDoBmDCI
The inconvenient truth of these protests is that after 12 weeks, Hong Kongers remain resolute and willing to come out in numbers. All generations were visible tonight, not just student activists. Attempts to sow division have failedpic.twitter.com/pKoig7bory
At 9 pm, the whole human chain covered one eye and chanted for police to return an eye, referring to the galvanizing incident two weeks ago when police shot a young medic with a bean bag round, a symbol now of the protestspic.twitter.com/EWSryJKVYj
Again, the weirdest thing for an American visitor is that everyone in this massive protest then returned home by public transit, which absorbed them easily. Streets were calm, empty and litter-free by 9:30
In the last week, Hong Kongers have been able to completely discredit a mainland propaganda narrative (spread in part through paid ads on Facebook and YouTube) that the protests are the work of a small fraction of violent extremists. The broad social support is manifest
It seems likely that the lull in police violence will end tomorrow. Peaceful protesters got their week, but the government squandered the opportunity to extend an olive branch. Now the peaceful faction will stand in solidarity with the more confrontational group
The protesters in Hong Kong understand that they must not be divided. So there is great tolerance for a diversity of tactics. I watched frustrated frontline fighters do nothing and go home last week without confronting police, in the name of unity. Now they'll have their turn.
A final thing I'd like to point out is what a risk this was. The #HongKongWay was conceived and organized in less than a week, by a completely decentralized group of people. If it had had poor turnout, people would have pounced on it as evidence that the HK protests were dying
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