Posted on 04/04/2005 2:36:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Two years ago, when more than 500,000 people flooded the streets in Central to protest against controversial Article 23 anti-sedition legislation, Yan Sham-Shackleton stood on a pedestrian overpass documenting it with her video camera.
At 5am, she had started writing Internet essays about Hong Kong's struggle for democracy.
A few hours after she went to bed, ``I woke up and went to the protest,`` she says. ``I took a lot of video. And cried a bit.''
Then she went home and turned her thoughts into a blog called Glutter.org.
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In the case of a few Hong Kong-grown blogs like Glutter.org, their authors are adding voice to a growing grassroots democracy movement that may be virtual in presence but very real in the belief it represents: that Hong Kong people should work together to form a civil society.
These local bloggers use art and essays to analyze and express con-ditions they say indicate Hong Kong can develop into a democratic society that values open discussion of issues, universal suffrage and individual rights.
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Examples include the discovery that American television journalist Dan Rather had presented phoney docu-ments indicating United States President George W Bush had dodged his Air National Guard commitment.
A blogger, Harry MacDougal, who went by the name of Buckhead, did his own research and posted his findings on a Web site called freerepublic.com, pointing out the documents were likely made on modern computing equipment.
The uproar over his posting became so loud that CBS investigated and later admitted the mistake. Rather resigned.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestandard.com.hk ...
We are Buckhead!
WOW!! That's really neat!
Change is busting out all over.
"This is so cool" bump!
We are Buckhead , hear us roar !
Power to the People!
My wife and I were in Hong Kong two years ago for Lunar New Year.
We arrived at around midnight after about 24 hours of flights and layovers;
Onon the bus ride to our hotel one of the first political things I saw (and one of those photographs that I regret not having been ready to take) was of a handmade Article 23-related poster/banner that had been put up on a one of those metal crowd barricades that look like bicycle racks.
I wonder if the people in the streets, the Internet Cafes, the people in their workplaces can actually access these types of stories on CHINESE INTERNET connections. I wonder if 'they' are being watched.??? I wonder if The Red Chinese gov't worries about our basic beliefs, that FREEDOM of expression could be a GOOD thing.???
I take it the sign was in English?
Hong Kong sure is a fun, interesting place.
Nice find! Looks like Buckhead and FreeRepublic will be forever remembered--around the world!
It was. At least I remember seeing Article 23 in English on it.
[Remember, at this point I'd been on planes and layovers for at least 24 hours. Not to mention the fact that I'd gone through HK customs once and AIRPORT SECURITY three times.]
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