วันพฤหัสบดี, พฤศจิกายน 19, 2563

ข้อเสนอแนะจากฮ่องกง... Dear Thai friends, (beside protests) try to weaken the economic power of govt...



We have decided to develop a new economic environment that supporting freedom and democracy. We choose the world would be like when everytime we purchase.
Though we don't know how long we have to wait for the crackdown of the evil regime, we still wanna try.

Hi everyone, today I want to introduce HKers economic circle. (1/n)

<How HK people support protest in daily life?> In 2019-20 HK protests, HKers not only rely on street demonstrations, but also try to merge the protest into our daily life. One of the ways is developing an economic circle. (2/n)

<Why HKers would like to develop an economic circle?> In HK, most of the businesses related to daily life are run by pro-government parties. In order to maintain their high status in HK, they must keep quiet on democratic issues, (3/n)

and sometimes they may even restrict the freedom of speech. For example, they fired employees who have spoken out on democratic issues. (4/n)

So, as to reduce the influence of these pro-Beijing entrepreneurs and build up an economy which really serves HKers, HKers decided to establish an economic circle. (5/n)

<What is the concept of the economic circle?> 
In daily life, HKers will spend money on the business that has shown their support on freedom and democracy. Meanwhile, boycott the business that is run by pro-government parties. (6/n)

After that, those businesses will provide support to the protest by donation and providing materials such as jobs, food, protest materials, shelters, and even legal support. (7/n)

Moreover, these pro-democracy enterprises will establish unions, create bigger strikes and protest, and earn bargaining power to oppose the government.(8/n)

Also, through the boycott of pro-government entrepreneurs, HKers hope it will change their stand from pro-government to pro-democracy. As a result, a local economic circle will form; HKers will have their own economic circle and don't rely on China’s support. (9/n)

<How is the result of the economic circle?> To be honest, the economic circle was not as successful as HKers expect. However, there are some obvious results we can discover. For example, some local shops can extend their business. (10/n)

Not only in HK, the economic circle even extends overseas, for example, in Taiwan, there are shops that start to stand up and speak out on HK democratic issues. As a result, overseas people have raised their awareness on HK issues. (11/n)

Moreover, the government actually fears about the economic circle as they criticized it. This shows that the economic circle has the potential to be against the government. (12/n)

Source: https://twitter.com/RL_WeedFrog/status/1326373602812436483

 

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