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Nov 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"CCP, step down"!
incredible scene from Urumqi Road, Shanghai
haven't seen anything like this
"We want no dictatorship. We want democracy"
"We stand with the people of Xinjiang. We stand with the women of Iran".
#Shanghai #Urumqiroad
the most heartfelt cursing ever: "dynamic zero [covid policy], f**k you"!
#Shanghai #Urumqiroad
arrests
I'm going to bed tonight with lots of hope and worries. I pray for the safety for all those who took to the streets across China.
最亲爱的人们，你们的勇气和抗争不会白费，所有的一切都不会白费。 Image

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Nov 28
friend's reflection on the Dam Square vigil in Amsterdam where there was clash b/w Han and Uyghur attendees. sharing with permission.
"China is a Han supremacist state. Han people's solidarity with Xinjiang has to be built based on this realization" Image
Beyond the demand to end zero-covid, there are great variations in their attitude towards the regime and awareness of the persecution of Uyghurs among the protesters. some are more radically critical of the regime while others may just want a pre-pandemic
"normal life" (which was never "normal" for ethnic minorities & activists)
among overseas students there are those who are not shy to say “stand with Uyghurs, Tibetans, HK & Taiwan”, and there are those like in the Amsterdam episode who do not want to talk about these. ImageImage
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Nov 28
some details of the Urumqi road protest on 26 Nov told by participants
"I saw mostly stylish young people. very good looking, very pretty. but also very angry, very sad".
someone played a song by Russian Uyghur singer Murat Nasirow.
someone held three papers with number 10
written in Uyghur, Chinese, and Arabic numeral.
the person later asked if he could hug the police. ignored by the police, he asked strangers on the other side of the cordon to hug him, and they did.
the atmosphere was relatively peaceful before the order to clear up came
in early morning. someone said to the cops "we should be on the same side". "this is my boss' order". the crowd: "who doesn't have a few stupid bosses".
a media worker asked two cops if they knew what they were commemorating. they said no. He began to tell them about the
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Nov 28
someone mentioned "foreign hostile forces" in Liangma river
the crowd responded in fury: "the foreign force you talked about - are they Marx and Engels"?
"Was it foreign force that set fire in Xinjiang? Was it foreign force that toppled over the bus in Guizhou"?
"Are you all here
because foreign forces asked you to"?
everyone: "No"!
"We can't even access foreign internet! how can forein forces communicate with us? there's only domestic force that forbids us from gathering"
if only the "colour revolution" tankie conspiracists could listen to the voice of real people who took to the street in non-western authoritarian regimes. they won't because they don't really care about their lives or rights or agency.
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Nov 28
the right to mourn is often not denied as such but monopolized by the state, which sought to seize ownership of the pain through rituals of national mourning as we saw in the beginning of the pandemic. The encouragement of officially sanctioned
mourning, which confirms established order and dominate ideologies, was accompanied by suppression of other ways of grieving, private or public, that were seen as threatening the existing order through the very power of mourning.
wrote about it in the pinned tweet and probably still relevant. from mourning for those lost to covid to those lost to zero covid policy, the political power of mourning in bringing about new kinds of solidarity and community remains extraordinary
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Nov 25
fire has been many Chinese people's worst fear since the spring of 2020, that is, since many people's homes are forced into periodic quarantine with metal bars and barriers
from the bus in Guizhou to the fire in Urumqi
the worst thing you can imagine happened and will happen
my people are absolutely fed up with it ImageImageImageImage
saw a friend say in the 朋友圈: 活得太苦了… 想看点开心的东西都觉得不配
"when I want to browse something joyful I feel I don't deserve it"
😭😭
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Oct 30
Zhengzhou Foxconn hires around 300k workers and makes half of the world's iPhones. amidst covid lockdown chaos & food shortage, videos on douyin show many migrant workers from within Henan province are returning home on foot... as no public transport is available due to lockdown
pictures also show local residents near the highway set up free supply stations to help Foxconn workers. without help from the govt or Foxconn, all they can rely on is the kindness of strangers.
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