#NOW on #CUHK campus dozens of students gathered , with white papers in hand, to mourn the victims of the #UrumqiFire and protest China’s stringent covid measures , chanting slogans put on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge last month in Cantonese and Mandarin.
“We are not foreign forces! We are Chinese youth!”
“Do you hear the people sing”
“Let’s leave.” “Be water!” Better don’t go alone.” “With democracy and freedom nothing shall worry us any more.” Also a man shouted “Beijing Add oil, Hong Kong add oil, free Urumqi !” on his way out.
Some posters in the #CUHK protest :
virus has mercy on humans, can humans have mercy on humans too?
My courage is merely as large as this paper but I am still coming out.
virus has mercy on humans, can humans have mercy on humans too?
My courage is merely as large as this paper but I am still coming out.
Chinese poet Bei Dao’s lines at #CUHK protest :
Even when tomorrow morning
Guns and the bloody sun demand me to surrender my youth, my liberty and my pen
I shall never surrender tonight
I shall never surrender you
Even when tomorrow morning
Guns and the bloody sun demand me to surrender my youth, my liberty and my pen
I shall never surrender tonight
I shall never surrender you
“You know what I want to say. They just don’t allow me to say it.”
“Tyranny is more to be dreaded than fire. In front of justice , China and Hong Kong are as one.”
“Urumqi is not a road sign. It’s people.”
“Them yesterday, us tomorrow”
“Under lockdown, keep up movement”
“Them yesterday, us tomorrow”
“Under lockdown, keep up movement”
(Needs no translation)
The poster floor grew after the short protest at #CUHK ended. Students kept the candle flame alive and used tapes to help fix papers flipped by wind. Next to stacks of white papers, a note says “take one as you please. Write what you think and do what you want. “
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