Alex Chow 周永康
@alexchow18
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Nobel Peace Prize Nominee in 2018. Board Member @hkdc_us , Co-founder @flowhk , PhD Student in Geography @UCBerkeley . Hong Konger.
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8 years ago. The Umbrella Movement emerged from the shields against tear gas, pepper sprays & batons. The 79 days occupy redefined the HK democracy movement for HKers resoundingly rejected a top-down reform: We won’t back down & we will fight back to reclaim our future. 1/3
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June marks the third anniversary of the 2019 anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, an uprising that has 2 million protestors taken to the streets. The revolution kicked off the tug of war between pro-democracy Hong Kongers and the Chinese Communist Party. 1/8
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1/ My speech delivered in the Global Action Day ytd to boycott the Genocide Games:
“I stand here today, not only for myself, but also for my Hker community back home. In the eyes of many, Hong Kong has fallen. But in the eyes of HKers, we are still fighting the good fight.”
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1)The five former trustees of 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund - the most important crowdfunding platform to aid protestors finally and legally - were arrested.
In 2017,
@CardJosephZen
visited me while I was serving my term in prison. Cardinal Zen walking in alone by himself…
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It was a pleasure to catch up w/
@RepTomSuozzi
today, a day before the Genocide Games begins. Thank you for being a longstanding & avid supporter of HK's democracy & freedom. I still remember you spoke for the 2019HK movement. Let's continue the good fight together.
#NoBeijing2022
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We the Hong Kong protestors stand in solidarity with Black activists and supporters in the US, with those struggling under the weight of oppression. No reason should the oppressed be divided.
#BlackLivesMattter
#HKstandswithUS
#GeorgeFloydProtests
#Asians4BlackLives
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1/On Sept 28, 2014, Hong Kongers took to the streets to protest against police brutality and CCP’s absurd decision to halt HK’s political reform. As one of the student leaders, I witnessed HKers’ invincible aspiration in pursuit of democracy, self-rule, and dignity.
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We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Hong Kong. It’s our commitment to safeguard Hong Kong’s spirit and values that represent the very bright side of Hong Kong. We will fight on until we see Hong Kong’s return to democracy. HKers, never surrender!
A statement from our Incoming Board Chair
@alexchow18
, Incoming Executive Director
@BrianLeungKP
, and Convener of the Advisory Board
@nathanlawkc
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1/The crackdown on HK’s civil society goes on. The latest victim: CUHK’s student Union. CUHKSU has been he bastion of the student progressive politics in Hong Kong. It has nourished hundreds of intergenerational activists that push for a just, democratic, and equal Hong Kong.
CUHK's student union disbanded today.
"For fifty years CUSU existed as an independent student organization whose representatives were elected through a democratic process. It is a matter of profound regret that CUSU is now history," the statement said.
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My thought on HK’s situation: “Being sentenced to jail fractures people.”“It smashes your personal aspirations,”“It might change your life trajectory. You’re locked in a cell for months or years. That disrupts everything.“They want to cut you off...”
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10. 1 Speech on the Global Day of Action:
To protest on Oct 1, the national day of the People’s Republic of China, means, unfortunately, the occupied territories are not yet returned or guaranteed autonomy and freedoms to the groups oppressed & threatened by the PRC govt.
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Agnes Chow is put into prison today and Dec 3 is Agnes’ birthday, which means she will have to spend her 24-year old birthday in the prison tonight, alone.
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8 years later, the fight is still ongoing. It’s no longer just about liberating the government, but to liberate ourselves from tyranny & the prison of our mind. A free Hong Kong requires an overhauling of the preconditions that weaken our autonomy &endorse a Communist China. 2/3
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Hong Kong’s fight is a global fight for a democratic future. The economy, the environment & the politics eventually refer to the distribution mechanism of power & resources. Either the people dictate the policies, or all hell breaks loose. The clocking is ticking. 3/3
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As the verdict reveals, the CCP-endorsed judges fall in line by twisting laws and punishing citizens for free speech. Despite their colonial legal training, judges are cogs in the wheel, serving whoever the master says. Rule of law without democracy to check and balance is trash.
A Hong Kong court handed a 40-month prison sentence to the first person convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since the handover to China
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Try our best to explain why Black Lives Matter to our HK fellows. We should stand in solidarity with the powerless and the oppressed. We should also stand against structural racism and any kind of police burtaility.
#BlackLivesMattter
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We all share a sense of urgency to counter climate crisis but blindly pursuing a policy of cooperation with the CCP harms the victims oppressed by the regime. If the signatories claim to be a progressive voice, one should wrestle with the tension than glossing over it.
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Excerpts of My June Fourth Memory
1) In 2014, I delivered a speech during the June Fourth Vigil at Victorian Park, articulating the political affinity between the 1989 movement and 2014 Occupy Movement with Love and Peace.
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I wonder if those far left can read Chinese and understand Cantonese. Such a dehumazing act to ignore protestors maimed by the brutal HK police.
It’s absurd to the max that you need to praise the police to win an argument. It’s shameful.
These blatant lies from the far left who depicts
#China
as a socialist utopia aim to drive a wedge between oppressed peoples fighting, respectively, against U.S. and Chinese police brutality. Don’t fall for it; don’t diminish the pain and struggle of others.
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The arrest of Au Ka-lun, a journalist &scholar, shows again HK legal system’s arbitrariness. For the past 294 days, Au posted a wordle result on FB each day to tell others he’s free. Today, he can’t do so for the gov’t has chosen to prosecute him for publishing seditious content.
Former Stand News political commentator Au Ka-lun (區家麟) arrested in Hong Kong on Monday morning by national security police on suspicion of "conspiracy to publish seditious publications". He's the 8th from now-defunct SN to be arrested on this charge.
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The host,”why the Chinese government can’t be kind to its people?”Regina Yip, a self-made propagandist, replied,”don’t confuse mainland with HK. Don’t talk about locking up the uyghurs. Let’s focus on how One Country, Two Systems operate here! Be fair! Don’t trust
@joshuawongcf
!”
德国之声招牌节目Conlict Zone(冲突地带)主持人Tim Sebastian对上作风强硬的新民党主席叶刘淑仪，结果当然是......
@joshuawongcf
被cue
访谈完整内容(英文):
#香港国安法 #警察暴行 #基本法 #一国两制
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The day will come. HKers, alongside Uyghurs, Tibetans, Taiwanese, Ukrainians & other oppressed ppl who embraces freedom, equality & democracy, will reshape the international order. HKers are shaping this trajectory—to outlast the dictators and make democracy prevail. Onward! 8/8
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2) stunned many correctional officers. They even asked him to sit on their chair so he could preach, talk, and pray with us. Five years later, the CCP plans to send him to jail by force and an arbitrary law. Would
@Pontifex
speak out for Cardinal Zen against CCP’s crime?
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Joshua Wong was sentenced to prison for 13.5months, Agnes Chow for 10 months & Ivan Lam for 7 months.
#JoshuaWong
13.5m in jail - via lawyers, “it’s not the end of the fight. Ahead of us is another challenging battleground. We’re now joining the battle in prison along with many brave protestors, less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for HK.
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The fight is an unfinished journey. While thousands imprisoned, many have gone exiled for safe haven. HKers still aspire to return to their homeland and restore the principle of self rule. 7/8
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3)The rest of them: Dennis Ho(left1) just had her 45th birthday; Po-Keung Hui(left2) was arrested at the airport when he planned take a up visiting professor position in Europe; Margret Ng (right2) continued to defend rights defenders in court, Cyd Ho(right1) is already in prison
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Finally—no one can tell whether a comprehensive, coordinated economic sanctions will turn into escalated wars, deter Russia, or provoke further geopolitical instability. Banishing Russian banks from SWIFT marks an unprecedented move that the public demands more concrete actions.
Breaking: the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States announce that selected Russian banks will be removed from SWIFT, restrictions to be imposed on Russian Central Bank
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The mass movement crystallized into the sweeping force that captured the majority seats of the district council election in late 2019. With the dominant support of the public, the democratic activists planned to win the majority, the 35+ campaign, in the Legislature in 2020. 3/8
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This defining movement characterizes the breakdown of two decades long political consensus between HKers & the new colonizer: the Chinese regime. The proposed extradition amendment, to transfer designated detainees to China, stripped off any personal protection Hkers enjoyed 2/8
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However, the leading activists who took part in the primary election to become the candidates are detained & charged of subverting the state power. When denying the CCP rule becomes a reality, the regime elites exhaust all means to wipe the opposition out. 4/8
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Join us to discuss the ongoing movement at
@VersoBooks
on Jan 8!
Former Hong Kong student activist Alex Chow, imprisoned 7 months for his participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement, joins
@lausanhk
in a conversation "Hong Kong: Between Empire & Capital" on January 8, 7:30 pm at
@VersoBooks
.
Don't miss this:
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20/ For Freedom, we will fight until the end, until the day we see a Free Hong Kong. Free Hong Kong, Free Tibet, Free East Turkestan, Free Southern Mongolia, Free China. 光復香港、時代革命!
#IwillNotWatch
#NoBeijing2022
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NYC will be the first the city to host the screening of Revolution of Our Times, a documentary that retells the 2019 HK democracy movement. See you in the theatre!
#RoOT
A HK documentary that cannot be screened in HK - Revolution of Our Times is coming to the U.S. for its first ever public screening, starting in NYC on Dec 10th (). RT and tell us where you would like to watch
#RoOT
, it may just come to your area.
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Don’t tell me cops in HK are socialist and professional. If your police is to insult social movements elsewhere and others’ suffering, you nail it. This is the HK police the CCP regime is glorifying, protecting & deploying to beat up the protestors. Shameless and shame on you.
HK Police mocks “Black Lives Matter” & “I Can’t Breathe” to praise HKPF’s “professional performance” and harass
@BeWaterHKG
reporter.
#BlackLivesMatter
#ICantBreathe
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER
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6) Margaret has always been the one defending rule of law and chastising any dogmatic responses to the downturn of the democracy movement. Now it’s her turn again to stand for the public interests against her CCP-turned colleagues.
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The crackdown on the HK civil society—dismantling political parties, outlawing legislators, imprisoning journalists, banning labor unions, snuffing out student organizations—reveals the extent the CCP goes to protect its authority and power. 5/8
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6/ I cheered at the top of my lungs when hurdler Liu Xiang won gold in the 110-meter hurdles.
I could be a Chinese, I thought, naively. I was 18 years old. I knew nothing about the violent crackdown in Tibet and East Turkestan.
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4) Hui is a renowned scholar in cultural political economy. He has written many astute articles and books on Hong Kong’s public sentiment and collective courage. In the 1990s&2000s, Hui even disagree with Margret Ng, another trustee, on the usefulness of constitutionalism in HK.
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2/ “In this uphill battle, we not only need allies of the oppressed communities from Tibet, Uyghur, Southern Mongolia and Taiwan, but also friends from the United States.
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5) Long gone is the academic freedom & rule of law, a spirit treasured by Margaret Ng. She was the first elected lawmaker representing the Legal Functional constituency. She always joked about the uselessness of her role bcoz HK lawyers needed not find her for career support.
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The CCP goes an extra mile to make sure no one can sway its political base.
@hkdc_us
published a report documenting the >1000 political prisoners detained & persecuted by the regime. These detainees were the driving force that slapped the CCP regime & rejected its authority. 6/8
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An activist dialogue between Black and Hong Kong organizer—join Lausan tomorrow!
Join us and Borderless Movement for an activist exchange between Black organizers and Hong Kong protestors this Saturday (6/13) at 7am PST / 10am EST / 10pm HKT. Cantonese live interpretation will be available on Zoom.
Read more and sign up here:
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A good piece asking why HK people should better understand Black Lives Matter, when folks in hk and the US are both oppressed. What are the similarities and the differences?
Lausan is an important ally of HK’s movement that battles with seudo-lefts that side with the CCP regime!
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I’m so very grateful that HK has such a prolific writer to document the stories of HK people. It’s critical that HK ppl write their history in various languages and tell the world what has happened. Its tale is abt resistance and the pursuit of freedom. Never give up hope.
Today, on the 1st anniversary of the march of a million that triggered mass protests in
#HK
, my new book ‘Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle’ is out worldwide. A tribute to all who’ve fought for freedom. Thanks to publisher
@MekongReview
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8/ but I have no lived experience to decode its political meaning, until I became an activist myself many years later.
13 years later, I stood here in NYC with my brothers and sisters from Hong Kong, Tibet, the Uyghur region, Southern Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, and the US.
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3/ I am very grateful for Congressman Thomas Suozzi’s presence in today’s rally&his unwavering determination to defend our right to democracy, autonomy&freedom. To amplify the oppressed communities’ voices, we need policy makers to spotlight the human rights violations in China
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1/n Back in 2017/8, when Zhang Xiang, the new Vice-Chancellor & a Berkeley alumnus, took over the helm of HKU, he said to me, an activist released from prison, Berkeley was a bigger prison, one he escaped. I was about to set off for Cal for my grad study.
Exclusive: University of Hong Kong makes library users register to access some politically sensitive books
@HKUniversity
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@sharonyamsy
and I wrote a piece discussing the strategic & cultural importance of the pillar of shame & student unions in Hon Kong’s democracy movement. Both the pillar & student groups have guided HKer’s pursuit of freedom and justice for decades.
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90 working days are long. My trial lasted for a week in 2017 and I already found it unbearable. These people have been locked up since Feb 2021 and the trial will not begin until next year 🤷🏻♂️
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5/ The struggle continues. Freedom-loving HKers will remind allies that CCP’s tactics to shaken HK’s democratic foundation will be replicated elsewhere. We must stay vigilant to the development of HK and CCP’s aggression. We will reclaim our city and we will be back.
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7) Dennis Ho is a LGBTQ activist and signer, who is always accompanied by Cdy Ho, a pro-LGBTQ lawmaker from the Labor Party. Numerous union activists and lawmakers are in jail or in exile, including Cyd Ho. Dennis Ho was arrested last December, right before her 2022 music concert
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11/ The Chinese identity is a sham if one proclaims to be a Chinese without voicing out the human rights violations back home, and how the CCP regime steals our home and our political right to vote, to debate, to revolt against injustice—the principles of our HKer community.
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Allies and friends will speak at the GDA rallies. No one should tolerate the business-as-usual practice with China. Neither the corporations sponsoring the Chinese Olympics nor the NBC broadcasting the sport. Let us speak out against the propaganda and bloody oppression by CCP!
The
#Olympics
is set to begin in t minus 48 hrs. Our Executive Director
@BrianLeungKP
and Board Chair
@alexchow18
will speak at the GDA rallies in DC and NYC. We should boycott an Olympics that is drenched with blood and abuses from human rights atrocities
#NoBeijing2022
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9/ We stand in solidarity because we know we cannot let history repeat itself. We cannot let the CCP government whitewash itself with the Games. The International Olympic Committee should not endorse it. NBC should not broadcast it.
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2/The 79-day occupy ended in government crackdown but awakened thousands of people who seeded community projects and district-level initiatives. The extensive grassroots network prepared for the 2019 anti-extradition law protest, which brought HK’s fight back to the global arena.
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4/ I am so encouraged by Congressman Suozzi’s support, and I am so moved by the courage, wisdom, and passion exemplified by our friends and allies here today.
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13/ To defend the political rights we deserved—the rights enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984 between the United Kingdom & the CCP government, endorsed by the international community, we spoke out against the CCP regime to fight for our promised rights
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10/ The multi-national corporations should not sponsor it. Athletes and viewers should boycott it.
Today, I would defend my Hong Konger identity unapologetically.
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Join us on April 19!
As Secretary-General of
@HKFS1958
,
@alexchow18
co-led the Umbrella Movement. He was sentenced to 7 months in prison for his role and nominated for
#NobelPeacePrize
in 2018 along with the entire movement. Join him at the HKDC Conference!
Register today:
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19/ There’s no reason for us to back down and muffle our own voices. The regime can lock us up and purge critics, but they can never erase the urge for freedom once people have tasted a lite version of it.
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12/ In 2014, my identity radically changed when I stood up against the CCP regime. At the age of 24, I was the student leader, leading my people to campaign against the CCP characteristic election.
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18/ Many of them are my close friends, colleagues, and comrades. They cannot and would not celebrate the games.
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Any behavior that threatens, coerces, and terrorizes another person is intolerable. As a public intellectual considered by many a critical voice in the Chinese human rights circle, Mr. Teng should have understood the seriousness of his misconduct.
The Hong Kong Democracy Council issues the following public statement on Teng Biao, a former advisor:
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17/ At this very moment, at least ten thousand people have been arrested for protest-related offenses and the so-called “national security law”. At least around 3000 people have been prosecuted, and twelve hundred are currently on trial.
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14/ We rallied around a political vision, we launched a student boycott, we occupied the city center for three months—that was the magnificent 2014 Umbrella Movement.
However, the regime fought back and locked up many protestors.
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15/ In 2017, I was put in jail for 7 months, along with my friends Joshua Wong, and Nathan Law. Joshua is now in prison, waiting for numerous political charges against him, and Nathan is living in exile in Europe, like myself and many others who scatter around the world.
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16/ After the Umbrella Movement, many people thought it’s the end of Hker’s revolution—until the 2019 anti-extradition movement broke out, with more energy, more creativity, more courage, and more vision to reclaim HKers’political future.
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2/ Disbanding the CUHK students’ Union marks the shrinking civil space in HK. Take nothing for granted since every pillar of society could be gone overnight. HKers need sustained effort to rebuild a civil society outside Hong Kong so the progressive network remains active.
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One of the bravest human beings in Hong Kong :)
A profile of Gwyneth Ho, who livestreamed & was a victim of the HK protests' darkest moment: the Yuen Long attack. Now she faces life in jail. But her fascination w the human condition makes one of the best chroniclers of BJ's authoritarian assault on HK:
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5/ In 2008, when the Chinese Olympics took place in Beijing, I was a Chinese boy, a Chinese boy in Hong Kong, observing the excitement and exhilaration of the glamour of the Olympics. I watched the games at night. I read the newspaper about horse racing in Hong Kong.
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7/ When protestors in Hong Kong and around the world wanted to stop the 2008 Chinese Olympics—a HK protestor even climbed up on the tree and waved the Tibetan flag—the scene was planted in my mind,
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4/In light of the purge of democratic groups, we must not see the rolling back of civil society as inevitable. We can provide different support to HKers who flee the city. As part of the global fight against CCP authoritarianism, the tide will turn when we vow to fight on.
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We want to thank members of
@HouseForeign
Affairs Committee on issuing a statement re HK’s 228 incident. Wars in Ukraine and repression in Hong Kong both reveal crimes conducted by dictators. We have to push back such aggression & defend our freedom relentlessly.
#hk47
It's our honor to work closely w/
@RepGregoryMeeks
on condemning & remembering
#228MassPersecution
in
#HongKong
. Thank you Rep. Meeks,
@RepMcCaul
@RepBera
@RepSteveChabot
for the statement issued on its anniversary. Your allyship in supporting HK keeps us hopeful in dark times.
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3/The leaderless spirit of HK’s democracy movement exemplifies the essence of self-rule and mutual-respect. Its energy translates into relentless mass mobilization in the city and across the globe. Hong Kongers taught us we always have a choice to resist and say NO to the CCP.
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1/I'm honored to accept the Oxi Courage Award& address esteemed Greek Americans& other distinguished attendees. While the accolade might hold limited direct meaning for imprisoned HK activists, it underscores the continuous attention & support from global allies.
#OxiCourageAward
Last night
@oxidayfndation
presented
#HongKong
democracy activists with the
#OxiCourageAward
. HKDC’s
@alexchow18
accepted the award on behalf of all who’ve fought for democracy in Hong Kong, drawing special attention to our 1,672
#PoliticalPrisoners
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@joshrogin
wrote a great piece analyzing the dynamic behind the America Competes Act.
While staying tough on China remains a bipartisan issue, the two sides can’t reach an agreement on how to provide humanitarian pathway to HKers and attract the talents fleeing HK. What’s next?
The Cold War taught us that exploiting brain drain is a smart and righteous strategy. But now, some in the GOP have forgotten that lesson.
My new column
@PostOpinions
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Read about the petition calling the George Washington University to divest from companies complicit in the Uyghur Genocide:
On the left a survivor of CCP’s Uyghur concentration camp & a Kazakh forced to make clothes as a punishment.
#GenocideGames
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3/ In the near future, the diaspora and local HK folks will continue to strategize to keep the spirit alive. As the activists find way to survive this storm, we will creatively band together again, navigate the means to resist, and reclaim a free and open HK.
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These folks are the type of people who sold out Hong Kong. Uncritical patriotism is as toxic as terminal cancer.
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I will be moderating a panel featuring
@LarryDiamond
@samuelmchu
@Sharonhomhrich1
and CK Lee from UCLA & HKUST sociology. Stay tuned for their observation and analysis.
On the 1st anniversary of the
#antielab
protest, we have
@alexchow18
,
@LarryDiamond
,
@samuelmchu
,
@Sharonhomhrich1
share their observation on what this movement had made.
Mark your calender! RSVP at
#hongkongprotest
#democracyforHK
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If you don’t even know how to speak Cantonese, learn from us before making any comments abt HK. 🤗
Two grumpy observations after a year of international media attention on HK:
1) A lot of folks in the west are historically and politically illiterate when it comes to China, HK, and TW.
2) People really, really like projecting their own issues or concerns onto foreign struggles.
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1/21 years post the 2003 Article 23 debacle, HK gov't plans to enshrine it in the Basic Law. Relevant? Yes, due to HK's blind alignment with Beijing's hard stance. No, given it's a minor shift from the political trajectory since 2020.
#HKPolitics
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We point out the inconvenient truth of the humanitarian crisis and environmental deterioration caused by the CCP regime, which is treated as a respectable nation-state player in the letter. No it is not.
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“stop fetishistizing "non-violence"”
So right, neither violence nor non-violence should be fetishized but understood. It’s the emotions and perceived world driving the strategies that matter. To create a new world is to understand their embedded meanings.
Can white people please stop fetishistizing "non-violence". In this case it's not fighting back. I just saw a video of a black woman being sexually assaulted and beaten by police and all I heard from Cra**ers was parsing for not fighting back. These are the people that are going
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The US and the world should do more and do it right. No joking. The point is how to get it right and it’s of coz up to debate.
The sweeping arrests of pro-democracy demonstrators are an assault on those bravely advocating for universal rights. The Biden-Harris administration will stand with the people of Hong Kong and against Beijing’s crackdown on democracy.
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Such an important piece urging folks to reflect on bi-partisan politics and ponder on the effect & limit of bi-partisan work. Understanding its limit doesn’t mean folx have to drop advocacy work. It can mark a new strategy assessing the US’s domestic politics& build new alliance.
In blocking Temporary Protected Status for Hongkongers, Ted Cruz’s betrayal makes clear that channeling all of our efforts into a single avenue puts Hongkongers at the mercy of a handful of politicians. It's time to move beyond the halls of Congress.
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Another great journalist leaving Hong Kong. How sad it is. Is it not a brain drain or another modern exodus from a fallen place occupied by the Chinese autocrats?
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Please don’t confuse Lausan with tankies, stubborn lefties, or CCP puppets 😂 they are not—I swear.
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9) democracy. we are not be born with these rights, but we will die for our dream. It’s what the 1989 democracy aspires & what the HK diaspora, along with our brothers and sisters from Tibet, Uyghur & Taiwan, stands for. Never give up, never forget. Until everyone is free.
#freehk
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Great news for HKers if the BN(O) scheme can protect more young HKers!
🚨Hearing STRONG rumours within
@GOVUK
that BN(O) scheme for
#HongKong
WILL be extended within 24 hours to include some younger
#HKers
(details unclear)
If so, HUGE credit
@hk_watch
@DamianGreen
@DavidAltonHL
Lord Patten
@benedictrogers
@Johnny_HKWatch
@SamGoodman22
+ others 👏
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@HongKongHermit
@jhwfung
Twitter is a really funnny site. The ecology is so different from FB. Let’s see what we can do 😂 as a newbie I think I can find my niche and play a supporting role to “助攻”sometimes lol
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Bullshit. Don’t talk about facts, objective & trustful account when you forbiade discussion about the 1989 Tiananmen massacre & covered up the outbreak of COVID-19, leading to the death of Dr. Li Wenliang. Citizens got locked up if they organized workers’ protests or studied Marx
Write history with facts, leaving behind an objective and truthful account as part of the collective memory of humanity.
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A very sincere letter from Ben.
Hong Kongers - 聖誕來了!
Today I publish a Chinese translation of my Open Letter to detainees & protesters
See English & Chinese versions here - and know that as we celebrate Christmas, I'm praying for Hong Kong
#StandwithHK
#HongKong
#democracyforhk
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I did a podcast interview with
@NicolaKelly
@article19org
a month ago. We talked about my activist experience in the 2014 Umbrella Movement, the 2019 anti-extradition movement, & my life in exile. We also reflect on the future of HK, China, & the world👇
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6) Yesterday, we gathered at DC to light our candle for the martyrs. It’s surreal to see many 1989 movement leaders and the HK movements activists, 30 years apart, stood under the same roof in exile, longing for freedom and democracy back home, in the United States.
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Glossing over the regime’s brutality prioritizes the state’s interests over the people, which is a position the letter claims to oppose. If one wants a global solution, the solution has to include everyone who is fighting for climate justice, autonomy,
democracy, and dignity.
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@HongKongHermit
@jhwfung
That’s very well said and explained. I have nothing to add. Except let’s work hard to restore the truth, diversity, and inclusiveness of the spirit of movement—Together!
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While criticizing the UK of giving HK residents citizenship, every top pro-Beijing politicians in Hk held non-Chinese citizenship or have a easy route to re-gain their foreign passports and citizenship. Smart-ass.
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Can’t beat that—White Colonialist-Converted-socialist.
What best captures the absurdity of the "ACAB except for the brave Hong Kong police who defend socialism" narrative? The fact that many top-level commanders of the force are, like Rupert Dover, British colonial holdovers.
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The Hong Kongers, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs, the Inner Mongolians, and the Taiwanese still live under the threats, humiliation, and violence of an illegitimate PRC regime, depriving the dissenters of our dignity, security, […]
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