Live can: I think the number of students have dwindled right up from a little but it might be because there are more police on the other side. They are still there a little further down, but that might be due to they need more people to man the roads
I guess the police has given up getting the truck through. I guess if they were honest, this means the police doesn’t have food this morning. This is not good. If there is a confrontation, tired and hungry police will be even more exhausted and it will just mean heightened tension and annoyance.
Everyone is tired.
My family is police, so I have all the respect- it’s their job. But I have believed in hk democracy for years and years. Even when there was no movement, when I seemed ridiculous to so many people.
Even to people who were out there these four days.. Because they have changed.
In between the last 11 years, i have become a mother.. These students are so young to me now. They followed on and have pushed my personal hope so much further.
I practically feel like they are my kids or something. I don’t want them to be hurt. I don’t want them to be disappointed or lose hope and become cynical. I want them to succeed so bad. But I don’t know how.
How will this end without violence and at least a little success with democracy?
I can’t see it. But maybe they can find it.
I am not embarrassed to admit it. I have been so moved in the last week I have spontaneously cried. But none more than the signs of the students saying they are ready to die.
They have no memory of last time, they only know from the history books ( not sure if they learnt it from school) but the internet, the rallies, video, oral history.. They don’t know the pain to watch it..
I am so moved. No one from my generation could do this. We remember the bullets and tanks at the time it unfolded.
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