🔥 Guangdong is feeing inspired by Hong Kong ✊🌱 The CCP has tried to prevent this, but rebellion has a tendency to spread like fire in South China 🏴

You already know about HK. This is my thread on the related & lesser known (censored) movements of South China (2010-2019)🔥 https://twitter.com/robin42908400/status/1200261862371164160
🔥In Sept 2011, Wukan (near Meizhou, the Hakka cultural capital) protested against a grab of their traditional lands. They were brutally suppressed (1 dead) but they won the right to hold their own elections in 2012 🔥
🔥Following closely and no doubt inspired by Wukan, in December 2011 residents of the nearby town of Haimen staged large-scale protests over plans to expand a coal-fired power plant 🔥
🔥On 17 January 2012 about 1,000 villagers from Baiyun district held a rally in front of Guangzhou city's government HQ, angered by land seizures and corruption. The villagers threatened to turn the district into a "second Wukan" if their grievances were not resolved 🔥
🔥 In July 2013, 10,000 people in Guangzhou gathered in a township to demonstrate against plans to build a refuse incinerator in the national hub for leather-goods manufacturing 🔥
🔥 In Feb 2012 villagers in Zhejiang province (next to Fujian) said ”they have modeled their tactics after Wukan” when they protested the forced seizure of their lands and the building of a chemical plant 🔥
🔥2010 saw major protests in Guangzhou to save the Cantonese language

The CCP wanted to replace Cantonese broadcasts in Guangzhou (where Cantonese originated) with Mandarin. More than 10,000 Cantonese speakers marched to preserve our language.

And HK stood in solidarity 🔥
🔥 In this context, does the Umbrella Revolution of Hong Kong come as any surprise in 2014? 🔥
🔥2 years after Umbrella, Wukan rose up again in 2016 after their protest leaders were jailed. Just like how the public leaders of Umbrella were jailed ☂️

This brings the South China protest movement full circle. And in 3 years, Hong Kong would ignite again over ELAB🔥
🔥 And here we are today. The issues being protested look different, but the fight is the same: defiance against the odds 🔥

Hong Kong, you aren’t alone 🏴
Oh, and the vid is from Maoming 茂名, near Guangxi.

Maoming rose in 2014 against a proposed petrochemical plant (PX) - 15 died in the clash. More than 200 people protested in GZ, followed by 20 in Shenzhen: they only lasted 10mins before the police came to arrest them 👁
🔥More scenes are leaking out of Maoming 茂名, where villagers face armoured vehicles, riot police, tear gas, beatings, and arrests 🔥 https://twitter.com/rfa_chinese/status/1200298330095415296?s=21
🔥 More horrifying scenes from Maoming 茂名 - the Chinese are fighting police brutality too 👁🏴 https://twitter.com/chinahrc/status/1200166860274036736?s=21
You know how to piss off Chinese people? You hurt their children 🤬 Brainwashing doesn’t work when family is on the line. That destroys any illusions. The CCP thinks they can treat anyone this way, Hong Konger, Uyghur, Tibetan, or Chinese 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://twitter.com/chinahrc/status/1200166690845122560?s=21 https://twitter.com/chinahrc/status/1200166690845122560
光復廣東,時代革命! 🏴

光復廣東,時代革命! 🏴

光復廣東,時代革命! 🏴

Free Guangdong, Revolution Now🏴 https://twitter.com/chinahrc/status/1200167409585291264
Hong Kong 香港: Okay, so when facing Police we use bricks as a useful deterrent as well as formin-

Maoming 茂名: Aha we are just gonna use fireworks and flip cars over lol🤪

光復香港,光復廣東 ! https://twitter.com/wbyeats1865/status/1200414103568674816
“警察打死人!警察打死人!”

The police are beating people to death! The police are beating people to death! https://twitter.com/WBYeats1865/status/1200416881384931328
Another closeup video of the protests in Huazhou 化州 / Maoming 茂名 🔥

廣東人快啲翻牆啦!我哋有好多嘢講 !
Guangdong people, hurry up and climb the wall. We want to talk 🙂🏴 https://twitter.com/chinahrc/status/1200167374416048128
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