jmulich.bsky.social
Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
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I don't miss the reply storm.
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6) Don’t get tear gas in your new tattoo. I’m tired and I stink of tear gas and smoke. The end.
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5) Burning trash cans and barricades are not the story. They are not the story. I saw so many reporters literally run down the street to get pictures of the next barricade on fire. I get it, they make for dramatic photos and video, but they are not the story.
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without warning or reason beyond “unlawful assembly.” Warning flags were out a few times, but a lot of the time the police simply appeared out of MTR stations or in vans and attacked.
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4) We’ve known this for a while, but today confirmed it for me: banning protests is clearly a strategy of violent suppression. It’s not just that police are restricting people’s freedom of assembly, it’s that they are using the ban on protests as an excuse to go after anyone they want ...
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3) Further to the last point: always bring salt water. And get a bottle with a precision nozzle. Muji’s is good, and cheap. One teaspoon of non-iodized salt to about half a liter of water.
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multiple cafes gave shelter and water, and I helped a couple of Star Street locals wash out the eyes of domestic workers who were (predictably) caught in the clouds of tear gas.
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2) Hongkongers are fucking saints. I spent a long time moving in parallel with the frontline in Admiralty and Wan Chai. Everywhere I saw people opening doors to let protesters and others in to safety, I saw a church open its doors and let people in when the police were going hard a block away, ...
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1) Everybody is fed up with the police. The rich expats, the Filipino domestic workers, the restaurant staff, the church workers. Everyone I talked with are fed up and mad as hell. And none of these people were protesters.
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[Thread] Here are a few observations from today’s protests in Hong Kong. There’s no systematic analysis, just my thoughts after a long and tiring day.
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Partly this is a strategy - it's a lot easier being rough with protesters if you don't have journalists everywhere covering events, and if it gets too dangerous to be in the field, supervisors are more likely to pull them out. But partly it's simply cops flexing their unaccountability.
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Absolutely
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This was a wonderful conversation. Thank you for organizing it, Eraldo, and for sharing your work, Jeff! It's a great book.
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Absolutely. Normalizing a paramilitary presence in the streets and arbitrary state abductions.
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Yes, apparently, there's a survey going out to editors.
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A team of FBI agents in full fatigues, clutching M4 carbines, because they're arresting a local grocery clerk? Good grief.
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Security theatre in full swing, protecting the public from dangerously priced wax candles.
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I realize this is a room temperature take. But man do I get tired of this slop.
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Wed Cont'd:
Join @jmulich.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social in conversation with @jwassers.bsky.social for online discussion of book "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy & Beijing"
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Cardiff HongKonger Group Hold Commemoration event "Remembering June 4th"
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Education for me but not for you.