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An Eye for an Eye in the Struggle to Keep Hong Kong Free

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Jan 5, 20202 min read

Updated: Jul 11, 2023


ProtestBlog.org, 2019 In the midst of clashes between police and protestors in Hong Kong, a young woman was shot in her right eye by police with a gas canister, requiring extensive surgery the success of which only time will tell. Since then, her eye has become a symbol of struggle, of protest, for the youth of Hong Kong.


We have sought to provide a platform for the youth of Hong Kong to speak out and share their stories. Our mission is to provide a safe space to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and to stand in solidarity with the protesters. We invite you to join us in our quest for justice and freedom.


The Hong Kong protests began in June 2019 in response to a proposed extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to China to face trial. Since then, the protests have grown in intensity and scope, with demonstrators demanding full democracy, an independent inquiry into police brutality, and the eventual withdrawal of the extradition bill.


The movement has been led by a diverse group of people and is unique in its reliance on digital media and technology to create a global movement. Across continents, young people from Hong Kong and those who join in solidarity with them, close their online video calls by covering their right eye with their hand, a reference to a young female protester who was injured by police during a demonstration. This injury has served to fortify and broaden the struggle, focusing it on police brutality as well as Communist Chinese hegemony.


The Hong Kong Protests have become one of the most iconic events of our time. Initially sparked by a proposed bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, the protests quickly grew in size and intensity as citizens of Hong Kong took to the streets to demonstrate their opposition to the bill and to Chinese control of Hong Kong.


Within days, thousands of protestors had swarmed one of the world’s busiest airports, the Hong Kong International, chanting, “an eye for an eye.” While the bill has since been withdrawn, the protests continue to this day, with protestors seeking greater autonomy for Hong Kong, as well as democratic reforms.




 
 
 

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All of us are vulnerable, and awareness is growing that we are all in this together. Nevertheless, the struggle, if it is to prove ultimately successful, is only just now beginning. While in many places, protests have turned violent and thousands of arrests have been made, there have not yet been large numbers of fatalities among climate change protestorss.

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Score of protesters have died and continue to die, however, throughout 2021. Myanmar and Colombia come to mind. We at protestblog.org extend a special invitation to protesters from Myanmar, Colombian, and many other places where levels of social unrest accompanied by protest are very high. Become a blogger, write your own blog!

 

In other parts of the world, most notably the Middle East – home to warfare for decades – particularly in Iraq and its neighbor and former enemy Iran, hundreds of protestors have been killed with live, military-grade ammunition, over the course of the last couple of years. After several years of civil war in Syria, protest gradually gave way to military action, death and destruction. The numbers of people murdered by the governments of the region are not fully known, and especially hard to verify in Iran, where a brutal religious dictatorship maintains a thick cloak of secrecy over such information. It would be a special honor to host guest bloggers from this part of the world in particular.

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The Taliban are now whipping women in public, in the streets, as they deem necessary. While women continue to protest, they do so at their utmost, explicit peril. Iran retains a perilous hostility to the West that consumes its resources at the expense of its people. The hostility between China and the USA, in particular, bodes ill for the global economy, already hamstrung by COV-19. Those parts of the world most vulnerable to the ravages of climate change are already suffering; places like the Philippines are experiencing devastating and lethal storms, one after the other, breaking all historical records. At this writing, one heat wave after another is scorching North America with unprecedented temperatures, nurturing year after year of record-breaking fires.

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Much of Australia, for example, was on fire at the beginning of 2020 - with the hottest temperatures on record - and few anticipate Australia to fare better in 2021. This is changing Australian lives, politics, and the consciousness of the ordinary Australian who is now getting involved in the struggle to save their island, and coming to a better understanding of how their survival is linked to the rest of the world. In Japan, forces are growing in protest to push the Japanese government towards support for the Hong Kong protestors, confronting mainland China; also supporting the struggles of minority groups in mainland China, reporting on government abuses, etc. The US government has expressed its full support for the Hong Kong protestors, further escalating tensions between these two superpowers along with ally Russia. These tensions were already at their most aggravated moments as a result of the US/China trade war. By early n2021, however, it was simply made clear that dissent from Communist authority in Hong Kong would simply not be tolerated in any form. For some time, increasing numbers have fled to the UK.

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