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Nov 26, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This is now on Wulumuqi (=Urumqi) lu in #Shanghai. People holding up white sheets of paper. ‘We don’t need to write anything on it. It is a symbol of the revolution of the people’, someone says. (Don’t manage to send videos.)
‘We want freedom!’
Nov 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What happened in Urumqi, combined with the promis of easing of #zerocovid measures, followed by new lockdowns… it sparked something. This is students protesting in #Nanjing