The world should be aware that for the past 10+ weeks there have been very large and militant protests in Hong Kong, sparked by an attempt to legalise extradition to the mainland, which would essentially destroy all of Hong Kongs autonomy.
In many cases of political clashes and social upheaval on the other side of the world its usually hard to come across much information. This is different, Hong Kongs extensive economic ties, its relationship to the Peoples Republic and its large English speaking population means there's a lot of information and footage circulating on the English and Chinese language web and media.
So the issue is really keeping track of all the updates and making sense of the confused and sometimes contradictory reports. The Final Straw podcast has interviewed a Hong Kong anarchist and long time political activist called Ankok. The interview is very long and informative, and although Ankok supports the protests he isn't blind to the problems within it and the wider Hong Kong culture and society.
Speaking of footage, while the interview lasts over 80 minutes (including breaks) I was able to find about 70+ minutes of footage just using twitter. Originally I was going to use more the protest art and graphics like above, but decided to use footage as much as possible. There are times when I use multiple videos of the same protest from different sources and angles, but I don't think there's much repetition.
Video of an interview with a Hong Kong protester about the current clashes and opposition to extradition bill.Audio is from the Final Straw podcast https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2019/07/28/resisting-tyranny-in-hong-kong/Footage mostly from the Hong Kong Free Press https://twitter.com/HongKongFPAdditional footage from citizens.
My YouTube channel is hanging by a thread thanks to claims by activist groups that grew into licensing companies over content made in the 1970s. And since this video uses footage used by media companies there's a good chance this would be hit by a content ID bot. So I've improvised, this is Peertube, its a decentralised open source video sharing platform that while a little trickier to setup a channel on cuts out most of the issues with YouTube, no invasive and repetitive ads, federated networks for archiving, local moderation is possible etc.
There's also the Internet Archive that has downloads https://archive.org/details/resistingtyrannyinhongkong_201908
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