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Today's WorldView: The protesters of Hong Kong and Moscow arent backing down
WaPo email: Ishaan Tharoor
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/12/protesters-hong-kong-moscow-arent-backing-down/%3foutputType=amp
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For the fifth consecutive weekend, protesters massed in Moscow, clamoring for opposition candidates to be allowed on the ballot for municipal elections next month as well as for the release of hundreds of demonstrators, activists and opposition politicians detained by authorities in the previous weeks.
For the tenth consecutive weekend, protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong, dodging tear gas fired by security forces. Earlier this summer, Hong Kongs protest movement succeeded in stalling a controversial extradition bill that the demonstrators feared would place Asias financial hub further under the thumb of Chinas single-party state. But their fervor didnt dim. They are defending political freedoms they think are under threat and demanding broader democratic reforms. They also want the resignation of the citys leader, Carrie Lam seen by critics as a pro-Beijing cipher as well as the release of dissidents seized during the unrest.
In both cases, the protesters have faced a stiff and, at times, brutal response from the proxies of the regimes they are protesting. Each week this past month, videos filtered out on social media of Russian police battering unarmed and peaceful demonstrators with truncheons no matter the scenes being ignored on Russian state television.
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This ability to find connections and momentum in a fractured landscape is perhaps the underlying essence of the current protests, wrote Pomerantsev in the Atlantic. The regimes they fight have no single ideology, united only in their aim to demotivate people and break up common efforts."
At least in the case of Moscow and Hong Kong, those regimes are, for now, failing.
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Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)massive pushback. That it could be a cautionary tale for would be autocrats the world lover.
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)Rather we the people should be pushing back harder