In a weird Hong Kong twist, there's an underpass you have to walk through to get here that is packed with domestic workers on their day off. No one seems to have invited them to the solidarity rally 100 meters away! Also no Indonesian or Filipina speaker on stage
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First speaker, a friend of Yuli's, begins with a touching apology in Indonesian. She is having trouble holding back tearspic.twitter.com/XxhQurKxkW
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Turnout so far is modest. Smallest crowd of any rally I've been to in Hong Hong. As far as I know this is the first event in support of domestic workers (320k of whom work in Hong Kong) since the 2019 protests startedpic.twitter.com/PnesVDyZys
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At any rally, it is important to find and identify the most geared-up journalist, as he is their leaderpic.twitter.com/oeFnabi1SY
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I believe Yuli has been patched in and is now speaking directly to the crowdpic.twitter.com/8wqrSCBAG5
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She got choked up and the crowd started applauding to encourage her. Now exhortations to "ga yao" (keep on going) are flying between speaker and crowd. First ga yao in months!
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Weird vibe as fire trucks are rumbling in front of city hall as rally continues. The rally has grown a bit as it approaches the halfway markpic.twitter.com/iWAkwgpgYl
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My first sighting of a press helmet that defends both against rubber bullets and vampire attack. I wonder if this journalist knows something important about tomorrow's big marchpic.twitter.com/mWYELkdjRB
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I won’t lie; it bums me out that the “don’t tear gas our pets” or “Thank Trump” rally got a bigger turnout than this event in support of a deported domestic worker journalist. It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Hong Kongers should have come outpic.twitter.com/eWcM91Io0d
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This is another “Slavoj Zizek on easy mode” moment where leaving the rally requires walking through a gauntlet of domestic workers on their day offpic.twitter.com/Rlzh1tdbg0
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Also I saw people wearing fewer layers in Antarctica. Hong Kong is no longer as hot as the core of the Sun and everyone is freezing. But there’s nowhere really for people to gopic.twitter.com/aLXKAeAqlX
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