Photos from night 2, Sept. 29th. Near the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
Taken early this morning. CWB-Admiralty-Central.
These were taken in and around Harcourt Rd. and the main Admiralty Protest Site on Sept 29th, the second day of the protest.
Reporting on the ground in Hong Kong, various media have written about protesters singing the “Do you Hear the People Sing” tune from Les Misérables (see here, here, and here). I’m sure that is the case that it was sung, and sung in various places in and around town at the protests sites around the city (including the latest one to sprout up, in Tsim Tsa Tsui) in the #occupycentral civil disobedience movement.
But I’m not sure that song is the anthem of the protest. There’s another tune that is a much likelier contender.
Read MoreThis was about 5pm, earlier today. Near one of the ol' stalwarts: "American Restaurant" in Wanchai, on the onramp to Gloucester Rd., opposite the Hong Kong Police Headquarters a brand new standoff occurred.
Right now, at 1:40am tonight it is turning out to be one of the most tense standoffs between the protestors and the police. The fact that it is happening meters away from the very symbol and main organ of the HK Police, their Arsenal Street complex, in addition to their ingress and egress point for all manner of HK Island-based vehicles and personnel makes it obviously a transit point the HK Police cannot cede.
I was there this afternoon to capture the moments when protestors took the skybridge leading down to the standoff line, shooing away a whole column of passenger vehicles. Here are the photos:
Scenes from earlier this afternoon Sept 29th #OccupyHK @ Causeway Bay
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The SOGO protest
Traffic was backed up a long, long way
One of the side crowds, West of the main protest area
These were the everyday police units. No real special gear here. None was apparent at 5pm.
A lot of regular folks out
Mood was relatively calm at 5:20pm
Then there was this massing of people, and at approx. 5:30pm the crowd was still steadily growing. There were plenty of people to the North, on the sidelines too (this view is looking East)
Designer Fans? The Piaget Ad got a lot of play too :)
"SHUT IT LOVE ACTUALLY!"
Again, the one right I have is given to me because I love movies like In The Loop. The media consumer's right. With Scotland Independent, there will be no more movies like In The Loop, for what makes that movie is the outrageous, internecine feuding that takes place only amidst the intimacy of family members- in this case Scots and English.
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