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Taxi Driver protests, pay increase: $500/driver today – 13 October, 2014

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A group of about 30 taxi’s parked on the tram tracks heading towards Central, and lent to their horns to annoy all around. Most drivers sat in their cars eating lunch, when asked why they were there “My manager (the person who owns/manages the taxi and its licence) told me to come” Based on the previous protest, I asked the drivers “Are you getting paid $400 to come here”.”No, it’s $500″ confirmed two drivers.

Unsurprisingly when I tried to take photos of those organising the taxi protest, they tried to avoid the camera and refused to answer the question “How many drivers are here without being paid to come?”

 

Umbrella Movement 13 October: Police remove barriers outside the Mandarin Hotel

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At around 5:30am Police moved in large numbers to remove barricades at various places in Admiralty and Central. The police negotiator described it as recovering government property… without wanting to be picky, since we HongKongers paid for it with our taxes isn’t it ‘our’ property. Regular police equipped riot shields, batons, helmets and gas masks provided a cordon for the members of the Police Tactical Unit – wear blue fatigues, instead of the more military green – who removed the makeshift roadblocks that had been in place for over two weeks.

The limited removals at first glance seem to do nothing for traffic movement other than allow guests of the Mandarin to arrive by taxi instead of having to walk a few feet – certainly worth the effort of a thousand uniformed police and numerous plain clothed officers!

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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

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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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