More points of interest! Note that the police decision to close two stations today had the knock on effect of shutting a giant mall on a Saturday night, and much of a business and market district in Tuen Mun. The weekend closures have a huge economic impact
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@Comparativist points out that this mall, like so many others, is owned by the MTR. https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1175381781228351489?s=19 …Pinboard added,
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The police are outside and protesters are at the windows taunting them. But they've also soaped the floor by the closed MTR gate, to give themselves a few seconds headstart if police do charge inpic.twitter.com/P9GxXjKXAY
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Just imagine antifa or your favorite black bloc back home doing this. The mall is absolutely packed, with nowhere to sit except the floor, but no one crosses even the flimsiest boundarypic.twitter.com/Jv3dMy4AXy
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Also the mall management has loaner strollers because of course it doespic.twitter.com/MhIkAEk24U
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Moment of silence, followed by moment of non silence (chant is reclaim Hong Kong, revolution of our time)pic.twitter.com/WKnRqsr4Rw
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Since I'm kind of trapped in a mall, let's talk about first aiders and the press! They play an important role when the cops do show up
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I wrote somewhere that protesters tend to describe what they are doing in the language of care. Frontliners say they are protecting everyone else by interposing themselves between the bulk of protesters and the police. supply people in back express concern for frontliners
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This language of care has something to do with civic culture here that I don't understand. It's part of the glue that keeps the very disparate factions of this movement united. The first aiders fit right into this schema!
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(outback steakhouse booth has been breached! Population pressure got too high!)pic.twitter.com/3xtKWSXJkH
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So if you've attended or watched video from a protest, you've seen that there are more first aiders than anyone could possibly need.pic.twitter.com/kuV4oAsRbu
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Sorry, got overtaken by events. Will finish this deep thread over a beer
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