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Livefeed of protests across all 18 districts of #HK. They’re just getting started now, many in malls.
Just spray painted on the floor of apm mall, Kwun Tong: ‘#LiberateHongKong #RevolutionOfOurTimes’
It’s completed with ‘#HK people, resist!’ & dates marking police crimes of omission & commission. #香港人反抗
Now hundreds singing #GloryToHongKong & chanting #LiberateHongKong #RevolutionOfOurTimes & #HK people, resist! #香港人反抗, apm mall, Kwun Tong
Arrests reported in Tsuen Wan & Tai Po
Arrests reported in Prince Edward
Kwun Tong Rd beneath Kwun Tong MTR station blocked
Police arriving
Police arrested at least 2 at Kwun Tong MTR station, chased protesters who blocked Kwun Tong Rd, all lanes now unblocked.
Kwun Tong MTR station now closed. Only people inside are police.
So many arrests across #HK, it’s hard to keep up with them all. For the latest, see t.me/youarenotalone…
Here’s one case where an arrest wasn’t made.
2 more arrests in Kwun Tong across from apm mall. Now a total of at least 4 arrests in this location.
Immediately after police depart, 2 lanes of Kwun Tong Rd are blocked again. Third time today.
Many of the multitudes of arrests today are preposterous. #HK police are trying to terrorise the whole populace opposed to them. Here, a middle-aged man criticizing police is suddenly chased down.
(That was at Dundas St, Ming Kok.) What’s astounding is so many #HK people refuse to be terrorized & the whole city beyond police control is ours- here #LennonWall at Ngau Tau Kok MTR. but I do think the #PoliceState is having an effect- people are more scared than ever.
Got out of Kwun Tong just in time: police entered apm mall, arrested protesters & pepper sprayed by-standers berating them. All shops in the mall had been closed for some time tho there was no vandalism. Protesters were trapped. What could they be charged with? Loitering?
Still lots of people folding cranes at Salisbury Garden, Tsim Sha Tsui. Thousands on display.
#FreeHK: a human chain protest has formed along the Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront promenade.
The yellow raincoat against the backdrop of #HK Island: ‘Fight against tyranny. We are not alone’ #香港人反抗
The human chain at Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront is several hundred meters long & took me 5 minutes to walk. I’ll present it in segments, here part 1 of 5.
Human chain at Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront, part 2 of 5. #香港人反抗
Human chain at Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront, part 3 of 5, the quietest part, if I remember correctly. #香港人反抗
In this segment of the human chain protest at Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront, part 4 of 5, the human chain is broken for a stretch by an origami crane chain, fastened to the railing. Protesters spent all afternoon making thousands of these. #香港人反抗
The 5th and last and loudest and brightest segment of the human chain protest at Tsim Sha Tsui harborfront, complete with a rendition of #GloryToHongKong
#FreeHK amid the thousands of origami cranes made by protesters today. A pity we’re all a bunch of ‘rioters’, otherwise our demands for freedom, democracy & justice just might be legitimate.... #香港人反抗
Probably the youngest protester arrested today. Over one-third of the 2,500 or so arrested in the #HK protests since 6/9 are minors. #CCP, #HK govt & police are intent on eating our youth alive because they know they’re the future of resistance for years to come. #香港人反抗
2min video: undercover police making arrests. I will be very surprised if today isn’t the day with the most arrests so far in the #HK protests. The police clearly have a strategy to finish us off, but whether they do or not, resistance will continue. m.facebook.com/27743445015/vi…
Earlier today, while hiding from police in a situation we weren’t sure we’d get out of, a 14yo girl slipped me this card & said ‘Keep it til the next time we meet’: ‘Fear became the ultimate end of this government.’ We both got away. It’s in my wallet now, a talisman I’m sure.
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Kong Tsung-gan / 江松澗
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There were at least 39 distinct demonstrations in #HK from 10/4-7; 800,650 participated (but most of the demos have no crowd counts).
The total number of #HK demonstrators since protests began is now 10,256,316 in a total of 540 protests.
The biggest demonstrations over the long weekend were the 2 marches on Sunday, on #HK Island (650,000) & Kowloon (150,000). These turnouts are extraordinarily large considering they were unauthorized & much of the MTR network was closed.
Together, w 800,000, they are the 4th biggest protest so far after 2mil on 6/12, 1.7mil on 8/18 & 1.03mil on 6/9. That fact's been lost in the #CCP, #HK govt & media fixation on the 'violence' associated with them. In fact, the vast majority of Sunday's protesters were nonviolent
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Kong Tsung-gan / 江松澗
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Andrew Nathan's study of #CCP thinking on #HK is probably the most serious attempt yet to get inside its head. If accurate (& I imagine it mostly is), it shows how deluded the CCP is & how badly it misunderstands the situation. See points below. foreignaffairs.com/articles/china…
1) #CCP believes what truly ails #HK are economic problems, not political ones.
Yes, but gross income inequality & unaffordability are long-standing, not new. & increasingly HK see they are caused by no democracy: elites collude w CCP & HK govt to retain economic privileges.
2) #CCP thinks #HK political problems are caused by a) its colonial legacy & b) western (ie, US) interference.
Actually, #UmbrellaMovement & current protests show HK people overcoming our colonial mentality (acquiescing to being run from elsewhere) & demanding self-determination.
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Kong Tsung-gan / 江松澗
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A salute to the people of Wan Chai (& by extension, all of #HK)

Of all the attacks by police I’ve experienced in nearly 4mo of protest, the one in Wan Chai yesterday (10/1) was the most intense; this, because of the tactics the police adopted.
The situation was a replay of many similar scenes before, with an important difference. Originally, when police wished to clear protesters from Admiralty, they would push them down Queensway past police HQ with teargas barrages…
…then after that, they would slowly & deliberately continue to push them down Hennessy Rd toward Causeway Bay, in the hope that doing so would eventually cause most to disperse. But they saw this method caused an insufficient number of protesters to disperse.
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#NOW in Tsim Sha Tsui, umbrella-holding protesters have occupied Salisbury Rd and walked into Nathan Road. Not a huge crowd but many are waiting along roads from TST pier.
Cantonese is difficult but not too difficult
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Chan Ka-ming, a pro-democracy district council candidate, is chanting slogan at a TST station exit on Nathan Rd.
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#NOW in Causeway Bay, a small crowd, including members of the yellow-vest Guard The Children group, are standing in shade outside Sogo. Quite a number of reporters waiting nearby, for a march that's uncertain whether will take place.
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“831, you beat someone to death. 721, you disappeared.” Protesters are condemning police beating people up on August 31 while on 721 when triads beat up passengers, police were nowhere to be found.
“Killers, rapists.” These are two of the common accusations against the police.
Amid a sea of US flags, there is one lone German flag held by Carlos from Germany. He thinks Angela Merkel should use her time in #China to voice more concrete support for #HK.
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The @gloknoscentre Open Knowledge Summer School on the Science & Politics of Food in Human History is underway @CRASSHlive, w/ Assyriologist Marie-F Besnier’s first session on Ancient Mesopotamian agriculture — and some early examples of how it shaped Sumerian cuneiform writing.
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#HonKong Thread: Hong Kong protesters abandoned Facebook for other platforms - "Facebook is not a useful tool for the movement except for those celebrities and parties, on which they make announcements and deliver statements." euronews.com/2019/07/12/hon…
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"In 2014, Facebook amplified the disagreements between the various "school of thoughts". EconReporter wrote. "In 2014, the movement had no experience and leaders did not know how to handle it and promote democratic decisions within it," Han Mei said.
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Hey, ya'll. Taking a break from my vacay to live-tweet tonight's Raucous Caucus at the #Boulder Elk's Lounge.

I have graciously been lent a computer for the night since mine crapped out this morning. If you've got a spare, lmk.
It is, in fact, raucous around here. Lots of noise, dozens of people. And a 5-min delay.
But we're getting started now-ish.
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