This is terrible, to tear gas a subway station. Lots of people will be stuck within a confined space. #HongKongProtestshttps://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1160538322906669056 …
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Almost 9p. Still relatively uneventful at the Hong Kong airport. The protesters aren’t blocking anyone. Lots of press with them. Passengers trickling in. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/hloLYnjd68
Wait. Correction. It’s not all uneventful. The typo police has arrived, bravely charging in where no other dare to go. (Take it up with @Jack, my dude. There is no edit button and I’m typing on a tiny screen). https://twitter.com/richarddai7/status/1160900040145215488 …
I think there’s a significant amount of misinformation spreading about the #HongKongProtests. It’s understandable but I don’t get the same vibe on the ground. (I don’t think tanks are rolling in! It doesn’t make sense and there is no recent indication—yet).
I have left the airport for now. There’s a very significant contingent of international press there and things seem calm. I have to say, again, in amazement, this city runs better even on its big disruptive protest days than any major US city on its best day. #HongKongProtests
What may well become a big gathering called for next weekend.https://twitter.com/ericcheungwc/status/1160880857936044035 …
Thread about the five demands of #HongKongProtests. (A common chant has been insistence that all five demands be met).https://twitter.com/HongKongHermit/status/1160409465637621760 …
Hong Kong airport is effectively shut down for the second day in a row by the #HongKongProtesters. The protesters are blocking the departure gates. Some parts have makeshift barricades and some is just rows of protesters sitting.pic.twitter.com/jM51AcKRrY
Close-up: a moon-pie given to me by an apologetic protester. “We have tried everything“, she says. “The government doesn’t respond to us.” Background: protesters have barricaded departure gates. Some travelers are understandably upset. Delicate calculations. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/4jfO1hadKS
Some protesters are trying hard to take care of the trapped travelers. This group felt uneasy but they said they will do their part. I know last weekends escalation was a turning point, but so is this—in terms of how this movement finds its footing for strategic decision-making.pic.twitter.com/KV0DwZ1f0V
Terrible moment. A man suspected of being Chinese police, but who apparently has collapsed, is not being allowed onto an ambulance. It’s been going on for hours. I’m watching the desperate attempt to let medics treat him, being blocked by some protesters. https://twitter.com/jgriffiths/status/1161273563124510720 …
I’m shocked that trusted pro-democracy legislators and others haven’t rushed here to defuse this. It’s been a long time. Injured/ill people deserve treatment by any understanding of humanitarian law or principles—whomever they may be. Future of this movement may be decided here.pic.twitter.com/4MT3kbkDPJ
There are at least seven news cameras recording what’s going on, journalists livetweeting, etc. a mostly young crowd continues to block the exit to an ambulance. Potential turning point, drenched only in anger. Heart wrenching to watch. #HongKongProtests
Police vans have arrived at the airport—saw them right now. Still shocked that, as far as I can tell, not a single legislator or civil society leader showed up to defuse this crisis. The medics have been unable to break out of maybe a hundred people surrounding them.
The man finally appears to have been led away in a stretcher to an ambulance. (Saw from a distance). In the chaos, the barricade blocking the departure was quickly cleared as well and some travelers rushed in. A different vibe now here for sure. #HongKongProtesters
Hong Kong airport has broken into intermittent chaos. I’ve moved away (and my role isn’t reporting). I hope everyone is safe tonight. A thank you, also, to many protesters who approached me with concern as chaos broke out. And the medics who worked so hard. #HongKongProtests
Just to update everyone I’m safe and away. A court injunction has been issued against airport protesters (so that protest is likely over) but that’s probably going to be the least of what will be on this young movement’s agenda tomorrow. #Hongkongprotests
One context to Hong Kong is that just the kind of people with experience and moral authority who could participate in the movement and defuse the kind of situation that happened at #hkairport yesterday... are in jail. And world isn't there for them either.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/13/views-behind-bars-can-hong-kongs-imprisoned-activists-make-voices-heard/ …
The self-reflection and responsibility shown by Hong Kong's generally young protesters is impressive. They've been protesting for 10 weeks, just hoping to keep some basic rights. (Their visual refers to the young medic who lost an eye last week). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/world/asia/hong-kong-airport-protests.html …pic.twitter.com/gOPDTUiRsC
Mainland crosser are apparently being forced to unlock phones. We
Need
Travel
Mode! It’s ridiculous that the only options are carrying blank phones or carrying all of your history with you at all times. Simple: no history for next x days. No indication.https://twitter.com/sumlokkei/status/1161799411959123968 …
A surge in zero follower/bot-looking accounts responding to my Hong Kong tweets with this kind of muddy-the-water claims. This one is following Taylor Swift, CNN and Huawei.
(There are no accounts of protesters shooting steel balls—let alone to blind one of their own medics!)pic.twitter.com/jAM0BtJ7Kw
Yes! Journalists *absolutely* need to carry China-only devices with them and platforms and OS makers (Apple/Android) need to create a travel mode: silently locking out history for X days for ordinary people who can’t always buy extra devices. Thread here.https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1161825907541258240 …
Dude apparently lives in Sydney, Australia.
Always amazes me how cowardly most of these types are, keyboard-warrioring in defense of authoritarians while sheltered in countries with more freedoms.https://twitter.com/rwarjhralg0jlo9/status/1161829948585205760 …
For sure “twlcor3kqv2ucxj”. (Someone check on the guy who wrote the random user name generator and report him to /r/maliciouscompliance). https://twitter.com/twlcor3kqv2ucxj/status/1161831023362969600 …
Well. If there is one place that will manage to acquire and trade something so in demand...https://twitter.com/shibanimahtani/status/1161977179346837504 …
This is what had happened during Gezi park protests. Instant response by the informal economy.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/343698864336953344 …
I’ve witnessed this. The police are quick to tear gas.https://twitter.com/sumlokkei/status/1162024242671603715 …
Cathay Pacific staff fired for supporting the protests..https://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1162032206623039488 …
Hongkongers keep trying to get permits to march, keep getting denied. That's important part of the context and another way on which everything us put on the shoulders of the young people willing to take the risks. They are the ones that march anyway.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/16/hong-kong-police-say-748-arrested-summers-anti-govt-protests-weekend-demos-banned/ …
Research on Hong Kong's protesters: mostly "young, educated, middle-class."https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1161276793627635712 …
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