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Ain’t sure where head of the procession is, but Hennessy Road and all the side streets are alrdy filled with experienced marchers waiting to cut the queue. Likely another massive turnout for today’s CHRF march, one of the biggest we’ve seen in a while as many woleifei’re back.
You know things are about to start...when luxury shops are pulling down their shutters.
Quite a delay in uploading videos. Connection is bad. But hey, here’s Pepe crossover Sesame Street?
Posters taped outside a boarded Starbucks, offering detailed explanations on the boycott against Maxim group and infamous quotes of heiress Annie Wu.
Two police officers on a bridge in Wan Chai make provoking gestures at protesters marching below, while filming them with a GoPro.
#HongKongProtest artwork inspired by French painting Liberty Leading the People, is hung along Hennessy Road.
This is the first time this family of four have joined the father in a protest. The youngest is only 11 months old but the older brother is three, “and at this age, he starts to learn what’s right and wrong. It’s important to install in them the right values,” says Mr. Fan.
“The government has done sth wrong but they wouldn’t admit it,” he told his son. They hold foreign passports and he wants the kids to have options, but being born and raised in Hong Kong, “this will always be home.” Working in Central...
His job has been affected, but income/economy are minor compared to what’s happening in HK, such as the attack on the judicial system. “The latter is irreversible. Worries of assimilation have always been there, it’s only a matter of time and its happening sooner than we thot.”
Only minor heckle and mostly chants of five demands not one less at police headquarters in Wan Chai, where things are usually most tense along the procession. If nothing goes wrong *touchwood* today should be yet another peaceful march.
The mood. A block away from the end of the march in Central, a group of helpers on their days off are having a good time.
And here’s a creative way to save space and paint, while making a point. He replaced a word in 警方 (Ging Fong/Police) with 謊, which means lies.
One first aider’s gear. Some are sodium chloride solution for eye-washing when people are teargassed. Pink ones are disinfectants for wounds.
The flimsy raincoats won’t stand against the water cannon, but the love might. #HongKongProtests
Frontline protesters in formation on intersection of Queen’s Road and Jubilee Street, where riot police are standing by with a water cannon. Some who threw glasses received a tongue lashing from others, “there are still many woleifi behind us! Stop provoking the police!”
Chanting “one, two, one, two” to coordinate their pace, frontline protesters are cautiously retreating, while making sure they leave no one behind.
800k took part in 12.8 rally today, according to Civil Front.
Signing off with a photo taken on Peddar Street, where protesters were in a brief standoff with riot police.
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