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 …
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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 …
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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
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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
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Hong Kong protesters chant: “Stand with Hong Kong / Fight for Freedom.” I have been walking along the
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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
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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 …
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In a somewhat unprecedented move, Hong Kong’s famed and uber-functional MRT has shut down four metro stations near today’s legal protest.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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Interesting product to promote on the
#antiELAB hashtag but better than state-sponsored misinformation, I guess.
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A reminder of yesterday, ~200,000 person human chain in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the historic Baltic one. I walked it for an hour, saw no gaps.https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1164949408766541824 …
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This Saturday's protest march has been banned. (Same organizers as the one two weeks ago. Organizers say it was 1.7 million—ended without incident). Now the organizer was attacked. Closing of lawful means of protest, bringing in extrajudicial punishment. https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/1166979856753553408 …
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This was already one country, 1.5 systems and it’s rapidly going down to one country, 1.25 systems. Hong Kong was never fully democratic, but residents are used to having protest as a key means of political expression. So far, it’s been effectively useless and now maybe banned.
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Tonight in Hong Kong, there are simultaneous screenings of Winter of Fire—a documentary about Ukraine’s 2013-14 Euromaidan protests. Pop-up projectors. They’ve been doing this for weeks. HongKongers are searching for something—anything—that works to express their political will.pic.twitter.com/7aJcYDNM1u
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Yes, the country whose president may have just suggested nuking hurricanes is so omnipotent and well-organized that it can somehow make millions of people across the ocean risk their lives to demand true democracy—the most basic demand for centuries now. https://twitter.com/fartron/status/1167073897843515398 …
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Here’s the screenshot of the tweet the coward claiming Hong Kong’s brave protesters are just a “state department op” that he deleted. (And the next one he will likely delete). The deep racism of such claims is infuriating. HongKongers are risking everything for a freer future.pic.twitter.com/cqpJ9Xh3tx
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These idiots who think the state department can “make” millions risk everything probably could not manage to run, say, a coffee shop with two employees. But they’re so racist that they believe in remote magic wands that work especially on nonwhite people, and by the millions.pic.twitter.com/f4HRbMCHbg
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Maybe the state department tries to interfere here and there. Who cares? The idea that millions demand democracy at the behest of some foreign government (at great personal risk!) is deeply deeply racist. The fight for freedom is no culture’s monopoly. https://twitter.com/a_bad_sign/status/1167083357093670914 …pic.twitter.com/aKlGp3LLXe
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People in my mentions still claiming that Hong Kong protests (and Ukraine!) were state department ops or somehow CIA-orchestrated etc!! The level of racism behind that assumption that non-white/non-Western Europe people can't have their own movements for freedom is mind-blowing.
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Many high-profile activists were arrested in Hong Kong today. But none are key organizers because this movement doesn't work like that. Reminded me of how the Egyptian regime tried to get
@Ghonim to retract some demands. He tried to explain he couldn't, even if he had wanted to.pic.twitter.com/A3yYrF7GFM
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There’s a gathering tonight in Hong Kong about the effects of tear gas on... pets. So many residential areas have been tear gassed repeatedly that this is now an issue.
(Also the quality of protest art...)pic.twitter.com/esDSDAlmfH
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I’ve seen this at multiple night protests in Hong Kong. People turn on their phone flashlight—sometimes explicitly for drone or overhead photos. (This one is at the rally about the effects of tear gas on pets).pic.twitter.com/yJoE1m8xJ2
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Today’s march in Hong Kong had been banned, but thousands showed anyway up for what has been called as a “prayer gathering”—which does not necessarily need a permit.
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It’s been hours. There have been massive downpours. They are still marching.pic.twitter.com/yICZPaVhRv
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