Hong Kong's protesters are using political art to spread their message, via hi-tech and traditional methods -- featuring memes, anime, Star Wars, multilingual wordplay, and jokes
Rebecca Wright, CNN
In recent weeks demonstrations have become increasingly violent, as protesters engage in street battles with riot police amid clouds of tear gas. More than 500 people have been arrested in connection to the protest movement since early June. Protesters often use the phrase "be water." This poster was distributed on Telegram by an unknown artist.Referencing the design of Chinese paper calendars, this poster is urging Hong Kong people to strike. The widespread strikes on August 5, 2019, brought Hong Kong to a standstill. 2,300 aviation workers joined the strike, according to the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, leading to 224 canceled flights.The new messaging reflects changing tactics and lessons learned.
This poster is a play on "mind the gap" signs in the subway. It's a reference to a mob attack that injured 45 people in July. Men in white t-shirts and poles attacked anti-extradition bill demonstrations at a metro station in Yuen Long.A Star Wars-inspired poster informs protesters that a demonstration will be held in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong on August 11.
"When we understand the wall, we usually think about our Instagram or Facebook, but what we have seen since five years ago is interchangeable -- the physical wall in the Occupy zones," Wong said."The merging of the two walls, the social media walls and physical walls." "It is very powerful as an experience, psychologically, and it is very empowering," he added."As an art form and as a platform for the voice of the individual, it brings the solidarity of the people together."
"There are visual references to contemporary and past social movements such as the civil rights movement in the United States, the French Revolution, the South Korean democracy and labor movement, and the Euromaidan in Ukraine among others," he said. The Yuen Long protest went ahead despite police objections and ended with tear gas and rubber bullets being fired at demonstrators.
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