#state of emergency

The police are murdering us slowly

Teargas is the most popular choice for the police to disperse the protesters, also their preferred weapons.

Since June, there are cases where people (including protesters, journalists and passersby) were hit by the teargas can and injured.

The worst thing is, the latest batch of teargas used by the police is made in China, and journalists and experts have noticed the dioxin it releases is high, whenever the police use the teargas, they are poisoning all the people in the scene. And the chemical is also affecting the ecological environment in Hongkong.

(Trigger warning)

Dead bodies of birds, squirrels and hawks are founded in districts that were bombarded with teargas.

The use of teargas not only is damaging to people’s health (dioxin can caused cancer and miscarriages) , it is having an irreversible impact on our environment.

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awkchickenpock:

So, i just wanna go on a little rant about how good Canadians are, okay? Okay. This is a good rant, not a bad one.

So, currently, a huge majority of the province of BC is in a state of emergency. There are currently 162 wildfires burning in BC. I and my family have been evacuated from the city of William’s Lake. My hometown, 100 Mile, has been completely evacuated, we are currently staying with my grandparents who are way out on the far outskirts of 100 Mile and are only on evac alert.

Now to my rant:

There are so many amazing people doing so many things for the evacuees. Literally my mother, her fiancé and I went to Lone Butte to the community hall where people from Fort MacMurray, AB had donated food and clothes for people in need of it.

SOME GAS STATIONS STAYED OPEN AND GAVE AWAY GAS FOR FREE FOR EVACUEES FLEEING THEIR HOMES AND GOING SOUTH TO KAMLOOPS OR THE LOWER MAINLAND

I kid you not, on our way back to my grandparents, a man was on the side of the road with tons of jerry cans full of fuel, offering to fill people’s cars for free.

Literally, everyone is being so supportive of all the evacuees. So many people are being so kind and helping out as much as they can.

My own grandfather went to help with extinguishing the Gustuffson fire

PEOPLE ARE OPENING THEIR FARMS AND THEIR OWN HOMES JUST FOR PEOPLE TO STAY FOR A WHILE, LETTING THEM BRING THEIR HORSES, COWS, PIGS, BUNNIES, CHICKENS, ETC AND ARE PROVIDING THEM FOOD AND STUFF

Canadians are so good to people…!

No, not all Canadians are like this, no. But literally, everyone is helping each other out in this state of emergency and they’re being so kind… It’s moments like these that, despite being stressed and full of anxiety, I’m proud to be a Canadian.

I just want to say that it’s been over a year since my hometown, Fort McMurray has been evacuated. I wasn’t there when it happened, but I was terrified. The thing is, I wasn’t there to experience the kindness everyone had. I am always hearing about all of the help that people received, about stories of those who loaded up trucks and trailers and drove up highway 63 and 881 to help my community. I am so grateful and so thankful that so many people came to support the community and the people who’ve been displaced. I am so happy to see that a year later, people are still doing that for the people in British Columbia. Earlier today there was a trailer getting ready to take things down tomorrow. People of British Columbia, we are here for you, and we are sending love your way, as you have done for us.

Hilary Rhoda and Iselin Steiro by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia’s editorial ‘State of Emergency’

(september 2006)