Tag: democracy

Waking Eye: Searlette Lau and Minnie Law

Waking Eye

Across the three Umbrella Movement zones, Hongkongers have been using all sorts of means to express themselves and their frustrations with a government that has lost touch with their needs and stifled hope. Searlette Lau and Minnie Law are two City University students who put the finishing touches to their art installation on the walls of Legco yesterday.

Inspired by their professors description of art in other protests zones around the world and a global project called Insideout which transforms messages of personal identity into works of art – the two students wandered amongst the protestors picking out 100 who were asked to cover their eyes. The resulting images were blown up and pasted together to create the installation.

Waking Eye - close-up

www.insideoutproject.net

Do We Have The Democracy Hong Kong Want? Russell Brand Asks…

http://youtu.be/Lin7KVMbmdk?list=UUswH8ovgUp5Bdg-0_JTYFNw

Not a great fan of Russell Brand if I’m honest, but here he raises some interesting questions and points.

Taxi Drivers Paid $400 to Stage ‘Protest’

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At around 5:30pm on Sunday, some 20 taxis were stopped on Gloucester Road attempting to breach the police roadblock (under the pedestrian bridge to Immigration Tower) and drive into Admiralty to attack the student protests.

Around 50 police responded as several of the drivers left their parked cars, unfurled banners and tried to physically push past the police while verbally insulting those who’d gathered to watch. The drivers who’d remained in their cars, engines on, spent several minutes with their fingers on horns disrupting a large part of Wanchai with the noise.

Speaking to some of the drivers, bc asked why they were there “Because our manager told us to come” said one, who then added “If we come, make some noise and ‘protest’ then our shift is free”. When asked to explain he clarified “The shift fee for renting my taxi today is $400, because I come to ‘protest’ this shift is free”. Two other drivers backed up the first’s comments.

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Umbrella Movement Images – 4 October, 2014

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Umbrella Movement Images – 3 October, 2014

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The rain, physical and emotional fatigue – peaceful protest is hard work – made for lower numbers than in previous nights as lots of students and protestors took the night off to recharge their bodies. The violence by the blue-ribboned anti-umbrella movement members and the failure of the police to protect the protestors sent ripples of fear through those present but also hardened their resolve.

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Occupy Hong Kong Images – 30 September 2014

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