When December hits, most feel giddy because Christmas is just around the corner. But the December in #HongKong in 2019 was far from peaceful. The struggle for #freedom went on, and we had a memorable white Christmas - filled with #teargas.
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#CCP #China #Beijing #Christmas #whiteChristmas #policebrutality #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #freedomofspeech

#HongKong had a 71% turnout rate for a local-level election (for seats without political powers) in 2019, today #CCP is worried that no one will vote. What changed? The whole election system, overhauled by #Beijing.
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#China #election #LegislativeCouncil #Legco

TLDR: 就算失望，不能絕望。共勉之。
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This is not a post recounting the details of the #UmbrellaRevolution so much as what it stood for and how it informed the #fightforfreedom in #HongKong. For years, #HKers had been struggling to defend our rights and values from the #CCP. The #UmbrellaMovement in 2014 was for many an awakening to the root cause of the social problems in #HK - the lack of a popularly mandated government as ours was (and is) but a #Beijing puppet.
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The experience of 2014 produced the now much more mainstream indigenous ideology and inspired new protest tactics in 2019. Hong Kong has never stopped evolving to cope with challenges and does not intend to stop now. "Be water", the city-wide pro-democracy movement in 2019 taught us, even though it may be dark and the suffering ahead seem endless, don't lose heart. We will remember who we are, what we stand for, persevere and outlive the tyrant.
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#China #democracy #freedomofspeech #standwithhongkong

Landmark #nationalsecuritylaw trials have started in #HongKong. #CCP using #HK’s corrupted judicial system to impose its twisted narrative on HK history. People’s wish for self determination is to be criminalised as “sedition”. Courts = puppets, it’s not just 47 on trial, but everyone in Hong Kong who ever supported the fight for freedom. #China #beijing