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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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
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 …
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/ENeKvQrEJd
It’s been hours. There have been massive downpours. They are still marching.pic.twitter.com/yICZPaVhRv
13th week, and HongKongers are still in the streets. The protesters have just been tear gassed on Harcourt Road—the site of original Umbrella movement. A helicopter is hovering over. A political matter has been delegated to police methods and it’s not working. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/cqJ9FUQNMP
Police threw a lot of tear gas and the protesters threw it back. Barricades moved back and forth. Now a police line about to forward. Facing them is a banner the protesters left behind. It says, simply, “We want democracy.” On the wall, “you can’t kill us all.” #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/WKBnBtJilg
It’s a small miracle and no small blessing that there have yet been no fatalities in the #HongKongProtests. It’s a terrible idea to outsource a political question to the police force. Hasn’t worked so far. 13 weeks and counting.https://twitter.com/natashakhanhk/status/1167756483645210631 …
It’s been like this all day. I just saw a lot of random people coughing and being helped to wash their eyes. Tear gas everywhere. 
#HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/Tey2WYiFtL
I can’t get a good picture but the protesters haven’t dispersed. It’s been almost 10 hours of teargas, foam bullets, arrests... It sometimes looks like a scene out of Blade Runner. #HongKongProtests.pic.twitter.com/1KiKWfGkad
Does anyone have info on the blue dye water cannon used today by the Hong Kong police? I’ve seen it spiked with pepper spray in other places and lots of people are reporting pain and irritation after being sprayed. (Protesters left wipes and change of clothes at MTR entrance).pic.twitter.com/nlatPIikzA
Yesterday night, Hong Kong police stormed several subway stations after the protests. Videos emerging have been showing passengers being beaten and pepper sprayed in confined spaces. https://twitter.com/ariahychen/status/1167996538762625027 …
I was on the MTR (Hong Kong subway) just before all that happened. It was full of protesters and ordinary passengers going home. It’s ordinarily a very well run, amazing system that everybody relies. This isn’t a place where such scenes are normalized.https://twitter.com/journodannyaero/status/1167994686591496192 …
This may look like a routine protest, but they are taking a huge risk. There is a legal injunction on the airport, with potentially very long jail sentences. And it’s a confined space with no way out. Hong Kong protesters have been remarkably tenacious.https://twitter.com/erinhale/status/1168051883505700864 …
Note that the Hong Kong police were not being heckled by the protesters but whoever happens to be inside the airport. The protesters hadn’t entered the airport because of the way paperwork checks have been moved right outside the doors and the injunction.https://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1168090747251200001 …
You know that there is no universal suffrage or true democracy in Hong Kong? In fact, that’s what they are demanding. To have a democratic voice rather than have to protest. https://twitter.com/noalgonick/status/1168126994132811776 …
The protesters indeed had a major protest at the Hong Kong Airport today. The police shut down all the train lines out and also showed up at the ferry stations. Result: they walked for hours and got picked up by HongKongers who showed up to save them.
https://twitter.com/erinhale/status/1168153273234161665 …
See thread on “Hong Kong’s Dunkirk.”https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1168156914158469120 …
The eye-patch (referencing the medic girl who was shot in the eye in Tsim Sha Tsui) has been everywhere in the Hong Kong protests.https://twitter.com/myetcetera/status/1168171242160975873 …
Today's the first day of school in Hong Kong and the student have called for a school strike. One sees riot police in robocop gear around town now, and ID checks and searches. It's a striking shift in how the city feels. (Below, Carrie Lam's alma mater)https://twitter.com/HongKongFP/status/1168363475459923968 …
Today in Hong Kong, secondary school students held a rally. Some were wearing the eyepatch.
Now in a long, snaking line of protesters waiting to go over the footbridge to the rally in Tamar. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/xgPVt6LdHP
The rally at Tamar was pretty large (one of multiple simultaneous rallies today in Hong Kong). We want democracy—that’s what I hear most often from the protesters. #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/GiBSzic6Rv
Here in the Hong Kong protests, Pepe isn’t a symbol of alt-right. They adopted him as just a frog. Most have no idea of its US connotation. It’s taken some time but I’m no longer startled by it. Here are some Pepes with eyepatches from today—for the medic who got shot in the eye.pic.twitter.com/BZP1QpUUpg
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