Archive for August, 2012

• PHOTOGRAPHY – Superheroes Working in Hong Kong

  Date: 2012.08.31 | Category: Photography & Wallpapers | Response: 0

  “Heroes Next Door” is a series by Chow Kar Hoo and Chris Lam, documenting superheroes in mundane situations around Hong Kong. The series was exhibited at the Shin Hwa Gallery this month. Check out Chow’s portfolio here. 

  

  

  

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• POLITICS – Occupy HK Refuse to Speak to Media

  Date: 2012.08.30 | Category: Politics: All Posts | Response: 0

  Upset that the mainstream media won’t air/publish their “lengthy and heartfelt exchanges“, Hong Kong’s Occupy movement is refusing to speak to the press as they “cannot possibly distil what this movement is about“… As literally ones of people remain under HSBC, none of the news coverage this week touched on the what exactly the group were campaigning for/against.

  

  Voice of America reported that the remaining activists “…call themselves “anarchists” and refuse to talk to the media or engage in public debate. Instead, they spend hours surfing the web on Apple computers.” No doubt this will make as good an impression on locals as the empty KFC boxes and beer bottles strewn around the site.

  The HK movement has nothing in common with every other Occupy camp around the world, bar the name they are tarnishing. Other cities form media liaison committees in order to get their message across – raising awareness of issues such as inequality, corporatism and under-regulation.

  Their misplaced hostility towards the press can be witnessed in this Time Out video from Monday evening (when the camp was due to be evicted)…

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• ACTIVISM – £2420 ‘Arrest Blair’ Bounty Awarded

  Date: 2012.08.30 | Category: Politics: Activism, Politics: All Posts | Response: 1

  George Monbiot’s arrestblair.org campaign awarded a bounty of £2,420.89 this week for my attempted arrest of Tony Blair in Hong Kong this summer. It comes on the day Desmond Tutu refused to share a platform with Blair in South Africa.

  • Click for full coverage, video and details of the arrest attempt in June.

  • Article: ‘Why I Attempted to Arrest Tony Blair’

  The sum will be converted to Hong Kong dollars and donated to: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Democracy Now!, West Sahara Resource Watch, Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference and others. Receipts to be published on my personal blog.

  

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• BLOG – The People’s Map of Hong Kong

  Date: 2012.08.29 | Category: Blog | Response: 0

  Hong Wrong is back from the summer break! Below is a map of HK created by Miss O’Kistic, who is also responsible for the summer viral hit ‘HK Expattery‘. Follow her blog and Twitter feed.

  

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