This is Hong Kong (Part 1)

THIS IS HONG KONG, NOT CHINA NOT YET

6. 2019

NO EXTRADITION #antiELAB #反送中 #NoExtraditionToChina #hongkongprotest #godblesshongkong #香港加油

TO CHINA

6.9.2019 Sunday

“Roughly 1 million people demonstrated in the semi-autonomous Chinese city-state against amendments to an extradition law that would allow a person arrested in Hong Kong to face trial elsewhere, including in mainland China.

For many, the amendments would all but cement Beijing’s authority in a city that’s supposed to be allowed to operate mostly on its own for three more decades. The problem for demonstrators is that the measures will likely pass as soon as Wednesday (6/12), due to a legislature and leader that answer to Beijing.”

Alex Ward / Vox

“While the city’s courts would get to review the chief executive’s decision, they will have very little power to reject any extradition request.”

Man-Kei Tam / Amnesty International Hong Kong

6.9.2019 Sunday pm 6.10.2019 Monday am

6.12.2019 Wednesday

“The second reading, or debate over the extradition bill was originally scheduled for Wednesday. In an attempt to prevent lawmakers from participating in the debate, activists blockaded key streets around the government headquarters in central Hong Kong. Police were also out with rubber bullets and more than 150 opened fire canisters of tear gas.�

BBC

“A group of journalists, including photographers and videographers, can be seen walking along a street as they filmed clashes between police and demonstrators taking part in a mass protest against a proposed extradition bill.

A Taiwan-based journalist can be heard shouting “Press! You’re shooting the press! You’re shooting the journalists!” before one masked officer points his tear gas gun at the man.”

Claire Lomas / The Independent

“Still Hong Kong, not China!

Not yet!”

“It had been very tense that morning between journalists covering the protests and the police. They were hostile, verbally aggressive and constantly tried to intimidate us... I felt that something bad was going to happen and so I started shouting to distract them, so that they’d leave the journalists to do their job.”

Anonymous journalist / France 24

“Several protesters said in interviews that they had little hope of forcing the Hong Kong government to back down on the extradition bill. But they said they also recognized that it might be their last time to take such a public stand on incursions by the Chinese government into their way of life.�

Mike Ives / The New York Times

“Clearly, this was no longer a peaceful assembly, but a blatantly organised instigation of a riot. This could not be an act that shows love for Hong Kong.�

Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong

6.14.2019 Friday

“At least 6,000 people, mostly mothers, staged a sit-in at a public park in the heart of Hong Kong’s business district on Friday night against the government’s controversial extradition bill.”

Naomi Ng / South China Morning Post

“If we lose the young generation, what’s left of Hong Kong?”

拒絕沉淪 香港加油 to be continued

“I’m frustrated. To see my government completely disregard the voices of one million people that marched in the terrible heat. To see politicians who tossed their conscience out the window and put their self-interest above the citizens that they are supposed to serve.

But the true beauty of Hong Kong really shines through this grassroots movement that was able to motivate hundreds of thousands of people, gathering people across religions, professions, age, and social class. I see a group of people unified in a common goal of protecting Hong Kong’s freedoms, to defend what has been slowly, but violently taken away from us. A group of people that, despite oppression, continues to be determined and motivated by nothing more than the slightest glimmer of hope.

This feeling of heaviness lingers as I sit in my chair, at work, being 7000 miles away watching live updates and reporting from friends and fighters in Admiralty. There is a guilt that perhaps, I, too, as an educated able-bodied young adult, put my career and convenience above my civic duty and conscience. I should be protecting my home and standing by the ones who are fighting on behalf of me, but I’m not. ...this endless stream of asking and questioning myself - could I be doing more?”

a Hongkonger

6.16 turnout: 2,000,000 + 1

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