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 …
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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
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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 …
Protests in a country with functioning infrastructure! "Once you get notified about [a protest], you descend through a spotless mall onto a bright and clean train platform, get whisked away by a train that arrives almost immediately." No US city has this. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1162254503682293761 …
What about the promoted ads? Twitter has stopped taking such ad money. Facebook and YouTube have not yet announced that. https://twitter.com/rthk_enews/status/1164700039752511488 …
The protesters in Hong Kong are getting ready to form a human chain on the 30th anniversary of the historic Baltic one. (They also put up “Lennon walls” most everywhere—where people express their opinions and feelings.)pic.twitter.com/ka5oWdw49T
A little girl chants “Heung gong yan”’(HongKongers) and the crowd replies “Ga Yao/ Keep Going!”. (This is the most common slogan I hear in the #HongKongProtests. Literally “add oil”, idiomatically, “keep going.”).pic.twitter.com/EAWJiOpJlF
Hong Kong protesters chant: “Stand with Hong Kong / Fight for Freedom.” I have been walking along the #HongKongprotests human chain for about an hour. No end, no gaps.pic.twitter.com/olNk6vgAxb
The Hong Kong protest human chain dispersed on schedule. At the end, at nine pm, they all symbolically closed one eye and chanted “give back the eye”, referring to the medic who lost her eye. Also they let cars through green lights, reassembling when it turned red for cars.pic.twitter.com/tz0lUtrHJw
This is an informative video series. It’s striking how similar these are to Arab Spring and other protests! There, too, often anonymous strangers kept the protesters supplied and off-duty medical personnel acted as medics, etc.https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1165050189398175744 …
In a somewhat unprecedented move, Hong Kong’s famed and uber-functional MRT has shut down four metro stations near today’s legal protest. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/fjrbGIQCup
A sea of umbrellas, walking to Kwun Tong.
(Hong Kong’s public transportation authority has shut down metro stations around the protests area).pic.twitter.com/HiV2ix0y0n
Large march has started along the path to these “smart” lampposts—surveillance poles, basically. MTR shut down has meant many people have walked to here. #HongKongProtestshttps://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1165146776321454080 …
The protesters have been dispersed. This US-made tear gas canister is what the Hong Kong police have been throwing at the #HongKongProtesters. I’ve see this same brand, Pennsylvania based “nonlethal technologies” in many countries around the world.pic.twitter.com/pGzr95t2FC
The protesters dispersed and reassembled, and now a huge police parade moved in. (There is maybe a hundred police vehicles right behind that line. But the protesters mostly or completely left, let’s say, in a bit of a hurry.)pic.twitter.com/G7kqCl6qc3
There is a very very heavy police presence still around Kowloon Bay. Not a quiet night. Roads closed, MTR shut down.pic.twitter.com/OffMwD7NIW
NYT article about tear gas use and misuse by Hong Kong police—written before today’s protests and the latest round of tear gas. Below is a canister I photographed from today’s protests, canister made in the USA. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1163110841375477761 …pic.twitter.com/YSTL53TzdD
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