After 5 hours, ppl are still joining the protest at the starting point.
All roads between the starting and ending points are filled with ppl, this is absolutely insane: I grew up in HK and protested a lot when I lived there, I have never seen that many people filling up that many roads. This will be more than 1.03 millions people last week, and I would not be suprised if this is more than 1.5m or up to 2m protestors show up. And you know, we have 7m ppl in HK.
Here is a link with 4 live steam video in one link, and of course all in cantonese. (right click to mute/unmute)
(all 4 should be 24/7 [I think] until things die down, but sometime they do go offline temporarily, so just refresh once in a while if one of them goes offline.)
edit: at Pacific time almost 6am, I am abt to pass out and catch some sleep. At this point, the protest has been going on for 6.5 hrs, and the protest is still not over.
However, the government just released a response saying the head of government apologized for not doing her job good enough. People are still pissed because she did not address to any of the demand of the protest, included the withdrawing the bill, releasing the arrested protestors, not pressing the rioting charges, investigating the police brutality and stepping down.
So, the live steam are from HK TV stations or newspaper (and the page is not created by me) should still be up for a while, as while a good portion of protestors would go home, many of them are likely to plan staying out there overnight. This is hard to tell if the government would send out police to do anything again. This is highly unlikely, but no one know.
okay, now I gotta sleep
2nd edit:
Please help us to watch these steams if things turn sour. Knowing the world is watching helps me to sleep a bit easier an ocean across my beloved hometown.
3rd edit:
Still cannot fall asleep, so some more info.
If you are watching the live steam and have noticed the protestor are not moving in any direction, but just hanging out in the same general area. It's because the camera is probably pointing at one of the locations nearby the government headquarter, which is the ending point of the protest. As you might have guessed, those location tends to be where the confrontation happened in the past.
Also, many HK people, from social workers, students, teachers and etc, are planning to going on strikes from school to work tmr (Monday HK time,) so this is expected that some of us will be camping outside of the head quarter until tomorrow.
okay, time to try to get some sleep for real.
4th edit:
So if you turns on the sound, hear something in rhyme but not the hymns "sing hallelujah to my lord" and wonder what they are shouting. It can be one of the following:
"Police! Apologize!" (especially if they are in front of the police HQ)
"Carrie Lam! Step Down!"
"Withdraw! Evil Law"
"Release the protestors!"
Also you may see the camera panned to lot of white flowers on the floor, this is to pay respect to the protestor who committed suicide to voice his political demand. And that's why we are all in black shirt.
Side note: please seek help and/or reach out if any of you are in some dark time in your life. your life is important, I promise.
5th Edit:
Took couple hours of nap! Currently, NO ONE in HK feel that we have accomplished any of our goal. The government gave an half-ass apologize, but has ignored all of our requests: Carrie Lam Stepping down, Withdrawing the bill, Releasing all those arrested and not pressing charge and Investigating the police brutality and holding those responsible accountable.
Just a quick description of what's going on at the stream right now at 11:30am Pacific time (HK 2:30am local time.)
While the majority of protestors headed home, many still stayed behind to surround the government HQ all night to keep the nearby area occupied for more ppl to show up in the coming day, which an general strike was expected to happen.
Historically, police very often send out anti-riot force to clear all the area surrounding the Headquarter in the late in the midnight, as the permission for an legal assembly/protest was already expired by 11:59pm. Thus, ppl started wearing mask to prevent identification and setup makeshift barricade to get ready for any potential confrontation with the police., though those barricade will not have much use against the well-trained and superior-equipped force.
This is always hard to tell if the police will send in the riot police, as authoritarian regime is often hard to predict.
Estimated 1.442m people on the streets!!! Still tenths of thousands of people are still arriving the site, ferry train, underground and busses are filled with protesters at the moment. Hong Konger assemble!!!
(Posted somewhere else - but please let me post again as we really need our voice to be heard.)
As a Hong Kong citizen, I hope to draw more attention from you from the western world: This series of social movement over here has evolved to more than just about anti-extradition.
The crowd is requesting the resignation of the CE Carrie Lam who is a propaganda machine of the PRC and a total reformation of the injustice political system - FYI the pan-democrats in HK gets around half the vote count but received close to 1/4 seats of the legislative council, due to a combination of disqualifying elected legislator on political censoring basis, gerrymandering, injustice system (some seats are “designed” for “important” sectors and industry that “need more representative for their voice” in the council), corruption and injection of new bloods from the mainland China who are skewed politically, as one could imagine. The pro-establishment group also have absolute veto right and passing right for every bill, not to mention their corruption with the administration, and the administration’s with the PRC.
One thing you should realize: You would think the citizen would be far less fearful of the government just passing the bill to the legislative council - The backlash of the people would not have been as strong as it is if not for the council is firmly, and unjustifiably, controlled by the government. A kid with remotely any political understanding can tell you the council is merely a rubber stamp of the government. A youngster jumped himself from a building in Hong Kong Island giving up his life further woke Hong Kong people for not enduring this anymore. In the tragic people finally united together one more time for one more shot, perhaps a final and desperate one. At this point, the extradition bill is merely an ignition of the discontent stemming from the long term exploitation of us citizens.
This has been a much overdue justice and total structural reformation to be earned by the Hong Kong people, one which they deserve. There have been countless bills and issues go into the PRC’s propaganda favour and the opposite of the people’s in past ten years. The accumulated discontent and anger are clearly shown in this series of protest. The people requests a respond and a way out from being just the chicken that produces golden eggs to the PRC for its unique economic status. Please join me to support our pursue of freedom and justice, do what you can or reach out to your congressman to express your support to us and even just your upvotes and attention will become a force for our people who share the love of freedom. God bless Hong Kong.
Not a native english speaker, but hope this clarify any misunderstanding and please don’t let my language distract you from the message and do become one of us who seek hope and justice for all.
czar5 on June 16th, 2019 at 11:24 UTC »
After 5 hours, ppl are still joining the protest at the starting point.
All roads between the starting and ending points are filled with ppl, this is absolutely insane: I grew up in HK and protested a lot when I lived there, I have never seen that many people filling up that many roads. This will be more than 1.03 millions people last week, and I would not be suprised if this is more than 1.5m or up to 2m protestors show up. And you know, we have 7m ppl in HK.
Here is a link with 4 live steam video in one link, and of course all in cantonese. (right click to mute/unmute)
https://ncehk2019.github.io/nce-live/
(If the video stops playing, just refresh it)
(all 4 should be 24/7 [I think] until things die down, but sometime they do go offline temporarily, so just refresh once in a while if one of them goes offline.)
edit: at Pacific time almost 6am, I am abt to pass out and catch some sleep. At this point, the protest has been going on for 6.5 hrs, and the protest is still not over.
However, the government just released a response saying the head of government apologized for not doing her job good enough. People are still pissed because she did not address to any of the demand of the protest, included the withdrawing the bill, releasing the arrested protestors, not pressing the rioting charges, investigating the police brutality and stepping down.
So, the live steam are from HK TV stations or newspaper (and the page is not created by me) should still be up for a while, as while a good portion of protestors would go home, many of them are likely to plan staying out there overnight. This is hard to tell if the government would send out police to do anything again. This is highly unlikely, but no one know.
okay, now I gotta sleep
2nd edit:
Please help us to watch these steams if things turn sour. Knowing the world is watching helps me to sleep a bit easier an ocean across my beloved hometown.
3rd edit:
Still cannot fall asleep, so some more info.
If you are watching the live steam and have noticed the protestor are not moving in any direction, but just hanging out in the same general area. It's because the camera is probably pointing at one of the locations nearby the government headquarter, which is the ending point of the protest. As you might have guessed, those location tends to be where the confrontation happened in the past.
Also, many HK people, from social workers, students, teachers and etc, are planning to going on strikes from school to work tmr (Monday HK time,) so this is expected that some of us will be camping outside of the head quarter until tomorrow.
okay, time to try to get some sleep for real.
4th edit:
So if you turns on the sound, hear something in rhyme but not the hymns "sing hallelujah to my lord" and wonder what they are shouting. It can be one of the following:
"Police! Apologize!" (especially if they are in front of the police HQ)
"Carrie Lam! Step Down!"
"Withdraw! Evil Law"
"Release the protestors!"
Also you may see the camera panned to lot of white flowers on the floor, this is to pay respect to the protestor who committed suicide to voice his political demand. And that's why we are all in black shirt.
Side note: please seek help and/or reach out if any of you are in some dark time in your life. your life is important, I promise.
5th Edit:
Took couple hours of nap! Currently, NO ONE in HK feel that we have accomplished any of our goal. The government gave an half-ass apologize, but has ignored all of our requests: Carrie Lam Stepping down, Withdrawing the bill, Releasing all those arrested and not pressing charge and Investigating the police brutality and holding those responsible accountable.
Just a quick description of what's going on at the stream right now at 11:30am Pacific time (HK 2:30am local time.)
While the majority of protestors headed home, many still stayed behind to surround the government HQ all night to keep the nearby area occupied for more ppl to show up in the coming day, which an general strike was expected to happen.
Historically, police very often send out anti-riot force to clear all the area surrounding the Headquarter in the late in the midnight, as the permission for an legal assembly/protest was already expired by 11:59pm. Thus, ppl started wearing mask to prevent identification and setup makeshift barricade to get ready for any potential confrontation with the police., though those barricade will not have much use against the well-trained and superior-equipped force.
This is always hard to tell if the police will send in the riot police, as authoritarian regime is often hard to predict.
maironm on June 16th, 2019 at 11:30 UTC »
Estimated 1.442m people on the streets!!! Still tenths of thousands of people are still arriving the site, ferry train, underground and busses are filled with protesters at the moment. Hong Konger assemble!!!
Edit:1.9M!!!
CTzHK on June 16th, 2019 at 12:29 UTC »
(Posted somewhere else - but please let me post again as we really need our voice to be heard.)
As a Hong Kong citizen, I hope to draw more attention from you from the western world: This series of social movement over here has evolved to more than just about anti-extradition.
The crowd is requesting the resignation of the CE Carrie Lam who is a propaganda machine of the PRC and a total reformation of the injustice political system - FYI the pan-democrats in HK gets around half the vote count but received close to 1/4 seats of the legislative council, due to a combination of disqualifying elected legislator on political censoring basis, gerrymandering, injustice system (some seats are “designed” for “important” sectors and industry that “need more representative for their voice” in the council), corruption and injection of new bloods from the mainland China who are skewed politically, as one could imagine. The pro-establishment group also have absolute veto right and passing right for every bill, not to mention their corruption with the administration, and the administration’s with the PRC.
One thing you should realize: You would think the citizen would be far less fearful of the government just passing the bill to the legislative council - The backlash of the people would not have been as strong as it is if not for the council is firmly, and unjustifiably, controlled by the government. A kid with remotely any political understanding can tell you the council is merely a rubber stamp of the government. A youngster jumped himself from a building in Hong Kong Island giving up his life further woke Hong Kong people for not enduring this anymore. In the tragic people finally united together one more time for one more shot, perhaps a final and desperate one. At this point, the extradition bill is merely an ignition of the discontent stemming from the long term exploitation of us citizens.
This has been a much overdue justice and total structural reformation to be earned by the Hong Kong people, one which they deserve. There have been countless bills and issues go into the PRC’s propaganda favour and the opposite of the people’s in past ten years. The accumulated discontent and anger are clearly shown in this series of protest. The people requests a respond and a way out from being just the chicken that produces golden eggs to the PRC for its unique economic status. Please join me to support our pursue of freedom and justice, do what you can or reach out to your congressman to express your support to us and even just your upvotes and attention will become a force for our people who share the love of freedom. God bless Hong Kong.
Not a native english speaker, but hope this clarify any misunderstanding and please don’t let my language distract you from the message and do become one of us who seek hope and justice for all.