社會運動衝突兩週年，其實乜乜周年意思不大，因為遊行示威次數太多。政府警察傾巢出動，穿黑衣的市民俾截停、搜查。國家領導人把叫口號的愛國人民說成亂港分子。看來要時間證明一般市民是對的。
hong kong as a police state 警察話事的香港
叫/寫 香港加油 也犯法？ shouting/showing the slogan “hong kong add oil” alone is guilty?
those questioning “one country two systems” is out of shape are deemed as enemy of the state. 覺得一國兩制走了樣的人就被打成叛國者
那就等著看遠一點，看看誰是愛國的。一般市民還是離地權貴。 so let’s wait and see if the average layperson or the oligarch is more patriotic.
i will write a non-Chinese language review if time permits and my heart still at it, for the time being u have to settle on imperfect google translate
香港社會運動電影節(今年第十七屆)是我覺得比較進步的組織之一。在過去幾個月香港嘅社會運動、遊走拉美之間、以及老豆進出醫院之間，到十一月中先至到電影節做觀眾。
第二套睇嘅戲係yes, we fuck，內容探討身體不同能力嘅人的性需要 。
影後討論提到性教育、衛生巾、男女待遇不同、性小眾等等當代議題。對於身體狀況不一樣嘅人，如智商低於70的話，香港政府以保護為由，所有跟以上人士的性行為皆屬違法。問題來了，性慾、性高潮、甚至更複雜的性愛情感是天生賦予的，在保護個別人士和滿足他們生理需要甚至生理健康之間怎樣取捨？我相信認識個人身體、體質、能力係非主流媒體世界外隱形但實實在在放喺觀眾眼前的多樣的胴體、多樣的性需要、多樣的性快感，是包容不同需要人士的進步社會遲早要正視的第一步。
it has been a busy june in hong kong. while cramped an occasional irrelevant post like the bread post into the fin-du-mois line up, this one jolted the hong kong protests aside as june 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of of the stonewall uprising. the struggle is far from over if one looks at the gender, social, economic, racial, etc. discrimination directed at lgbqtsti people, still rampant and sometimes vicious.
just like the poster of audre lorde project reads “the history of stonewall is trans”, and to that we should add people of color (i.e. latina/o/x, africans/blacks in usa’s problematic lingo) as a substantial number of them were among those courageous enough to revolt against the police raid.
as with many movements, those who pushed through the front line, the most radical, the most marginalized did not see or had benefited minimally from the fruits of their struggle. sylvia rivera actually had relaunched street transvestite action revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) a year or so before the end of her life, if that’s benchmark to show how much and at the same time how little had been achieved, for the marginalized within the margins of the lgbtqtsti people.
with corporate pride events choking major cities, let’s not forget the trailblazers, the most discriminated among the discriminated, the STARS that they are, twinkling in the distance with their blessings. on the 50th anniversary of stonewall and looking ahead for lgbtqtsti rights, we need their visionary lights to guide as in the never ending quest for social and economic justice.
ps alp’s statement:
grounding today with reflections from the past
年復一年，八九的中國學生運動以至後來的天安門血腥鎮壓已經三十年。寫在今天六月尾，彷彿六四的維園今年那在又熱、又濕的集會是這個月反香港政府的惡法（逃犯條例）大規模遊行示威的前奏！其實前奏、後續的對比或關係並不重要。
重要的是三十年前學生、工人等對改革開放的訴求、追求，和他們部分人犧牲了生命，是應該世世代代牢牢記住！
燭光不滅
三十年 了， 但 人民不會忘記
uncovered from my draft entries, last modification dated 13 déc. 2017 03:32.
she might or might not be a significant figure of the expat and missionary communities in nanjing china in the world war ii era, what is written on her and her personal experience will sure be a part of the war / massacre / peace / never again narratives for a turbulent era. her name is Minnie Vautrin.
so here is what I penned around the christmas season of 2017:
what to write or not -rthk late night documentary repeat had an episode on the massacre in Nanjing, sooming my focus in and out throughout the 50 plus minute, a missionary’s story caught my attention – Minnie Vautrin 魏特琳. Reading this in December when everyone walking into shopping centres got bombarded with jingles make the contrast more vehmenly sad. Vautrin, probably suffered a nervous breakdown from witnessing so many people dying around her, took her life within a year of returning to USA for a sick leave.
today, 14 may is the anniversary of her suicide.
只是一兩個月冇經過中間道旁的小徑，驚見海員俱樂部搭起拆樓嘅石屎支撐加工字鐵承起嘅上蓋。在網上翻查一下，原來舊年已經尋找地產發展商協作再發展。簡單、非龐然大物嘅建築，係旺區如尖沙嘴要抵得住改變、擴展嘅命運可謂難過登天！
外觀
June 4 is around the corner. After years of controversies with Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange still in sort of house arrest, at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, it came to my attention recently that some cables actually are related to the events surrounding the student uprising and culminating into the massacre on 4th June 1989.
The number of students killed might be different according to different accounts. Nevertheless, i felt chilled to the bone rereading some tense moments in the city through a “laowai”, whose mobility was probably more than the average citizen and was sure that minimal casualties through his eyewitness account were at least in the hundreds in this sad saga of Chinese politics and reforms.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
人命值多少錢
勞工節講人命
一篇講靈異事件的文章，駭人聽聞不是見首不見尾的疑似鬼怪。讓我震驚的是1976－1980四年之間，香港的地鐵工程奪去了四條寶貴生命。再隨便想想西九龍icc 六個人跌落升降機槽斃命，到最近港珠澳大橋安全架掉下淹死兩名工友，幾十年來基建都係血肉搵番嚟的！
從示威看到政府仍然係無牙老虎，不能保障為社會成就默默付出的一群。零傷亡是很卑微，既艱難但應該達到的尊嚴要求！
So this has been a weekend loaded with activities I attended haphazrdly. The Kowloon City Bookfair, which is running its 6th annual leg, finally fit into my junky, over-the-head, boisterous music-by-the-habourfront weekend. Organised by young literary connoisseurs, back by a creativity-oriented high school, a think tank, etc., the bookfair is a mélange of talks, roundtables, flea market, mini-bookfair and a mini-concert. Free of charge to everybody, coarse but ever-evolving, it’s what this overcrowded and over-developped city needs if Hong Kong were to slow down and smell some roses, or fresh air!
Thanks to a random gift of kindness, I set foot in West Kowloon waterfront for Clockenflap, probably the last time in a while by the West Kowloon waterfront since constructions will be swung into actions in the coming years.
My previous impression of this “music festival” has been some gweilos replicating rock concerts spiced with burning man. Upon entering I was upset with the overfloated plastic recycle bin with all types of trash. A day later however, a politically charged performance by “my little airport” sort of eased my displeasure. Well, in a non-perfect world, room for improvement is the key!
This might be the first in a series, for a duration not yet known, on the latest civil disobedience in Hong Kong in 2014. Let’s build up curiosity by looking at media, especially state media first!
Maybe Russia and China really are secretly in love, or are they not-so-secret buddies?
Russia Today said “protest turns violent” at the title of its piece posted September 28, 2014 16:33(Moscow time?)
http://rt.com/news/191324-hong-kong-protesters-clashes/
even though it did use the words “pro-democracy” in the report.
Hong Kong police used tear gas and pepper spray on a crowd of pro-democracy protesters who ignored warnings and blocked the city’s main highway. The violence came after several days of student protests.
Meanwhile, China’s official news portal labelled the protest “spun out of control” http://www.china.org.cn/china/2014-09/29/content_33643206.htm
Agence France Presse en español wrote one of its headlines”
Manifestantes prodemocracia paralizan puntos neurálgicos en Hong Kong
Paralyse it we should, not neuro-logistical centre of Hong Kong, rather the injustice of puppet electoral systems, oligarchy and neoliberalism! Can we?
below: screenshot of online spreadsheet of the call for supply materials at the occupied sites
un asiatique et son charabia 某亞裔噏得就噏 an Asian Guy's rigmarole 