I've been posting selections from a series of photos shared via Twitter from demonstrations in Hong Kong on January 1, 2010. The images were aggregated with the term #0101hk.
(
Background of the January 1, 2010, Hong Kong New Year's protests on Wikipedia.)
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Beijing has an intuitive understanding that, in a way that is determined
by conditions of unequal information, it can monolithically dictate
terms, and that other, "distributed," parties will be hard-pressed to
stand up to those terms. Specifically, Beijing observes a cynical
cost/benefit calculus which says, "Sure, a few players will always wise
up and exercise their options to move away from us; but, by and large,
everyone else is too paralyzed to move."
(See
Merry Christmas, Mr. Liu: The Prisoner's Dilemma in China)
Despite the difficulties associated with engaging in effective
solidarity with dissidents in China, it is important to make the effort.
A fundamental tenet of all peace and justice activism is that if we
have
the power to speak we can do anything, and if "they" succeed in
shutting us up, it's the beginning of the end.
(See
What is the US Peace and Justice Movement Doing for Dissidents in China?)
"How can it be that no one is speaking directly to what happened?" I
wondered. "Should I say something? Is it just me? Can it be possible
that most people aren't like me, tremendously troubled by how we should
respond to what has happened in China?"
(See
Remember June 4)
Recent events have not only proved that dissent is alive and well in
Hong Kong, but that creative resistance is a Hong Kong strong suit. The
June 4, 2014, commemoration of the Tiananmen Massacre in Hong Kong
included these images . . .
(See
Hong Kong Keeping the Memory of June 4 Alive (Who Knew?) )
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