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New York City: Emergency news conference and picket inside Grand Central Station to demand No war with Russia! Stand with Donbass! U.S. out of Ukraine! February 19, 2022
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The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
Photo: Demonstrators hold umbrellas at Victoria Park, Aug. 18. Photographer: Kyle Lam/Bloomberg
In Hong Kong, umbrellas are more than just protection from rain or glaring sunshine. They have become tools for expression, privacy and self-defense—and that’s made them a staple of the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the city over the past three months.
The humble brolly has been a symbol of resistance in Hong Kong since 2014, when the city’s pro-democracy protests became known as the Umbrella Movement. Now, Hong Kong’s police force has labeled umbrellas as weapons, and Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong.
“I tried to purchase umbrellas and I just can’t” on those platforms, said Kelvin Yeung, a 22-year-old university student who has participated in about half of the marches this summer. “I cannot put it into my basket if the destination is Hong Kong.”
Over the past 100-plus days, protesters have demonstrated dozens of ways to use umbrellas that have nothing to do with rain. Here are just a handful of examples, as well as what some protesters have to say about them. Many declined to give their full name for fear of punishment, and none are pictured.
Source:Bloomberg
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“An estimated 1.7 million people in Hong Kong—A QUARTER OF THE POPULATION—defied police orders to stage a peaceful march after a rally in a downtown park, after two months of increasingly violent clashes that have prompted severe warnings from Beijing and failed to win concessions from the city’s government.
Huge crowds filled Victoria Park on Sunday afternoon and spilled on to nearby streets, forcing police to block traffic in the area. Torrential rain came down an hour into the rally, turning the park into a sea of umbrellas. At the same time, protesters walked towards Central, the heart of Hong Kong’s business district, and surrounded government headquarters.”
read more: guardian, 18.08.19.
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A Bird’s-Eye View of How Protesters Have Flooded Hong Kong Streets
Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, June 16, and marched almost two miles (three kilometers), protesting a proposed extradition bill and calling for the city’s leader to step down.
It was the largest of three major protests against the bill that were held over eight days. More demonstrations are scheduled for Wednesday, ahead of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka, Japan. The composite images below help show the enormous scale of the June 16 demonstrations.
Source:The New York Times
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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Near the Gaza border with Women Wage Peace
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A column of demonstrators at the Aleksandrovskii railway station.
Unknown author, March 1917, Moscow.
Are you at all curious about how I paint? Join me Fri night, 7-10pm PST, for a demonstration into some of my techniques and a Q&A with me on the Watts Atelier YouTube Channel. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=84pbier5Xuw. #demonstration #illustration #art #artist #instaart #instruction #oilpainting
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A gouache painting of everyone’s favorite sellsword. This was my demo in my Portrait in Gouache class yesterday. #wattsatelier #gameofthrones #bronn #gouache #gouachepainting #demo #demonstration #painting #art #artist #artwork #got7 #got #instaart #instartist
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