[horns honking] [sirens]

[radio crackling] woman: i don't hate rules, but sometimes, rules are just stupid. sometimes, rules are made to prevent people from doing bad things, but sometimes, rules are made to protect privilege.

typical hong kong girls don't do things like this, like these crazy adventures. rooftopping is a kind of new extreme sport among young people in hong kong now. the idea is conquering a building without being discovered by security. my heart is always pounding, and then my hands are sweating, but i try to overcome this fear. my rooftopping friends, they all have same value w with me. i thk

they're all rebellious, and they also think that the government is not serving the people now in hong kong. they just want you to be obedient. benjamin: i don't want to see any police because i have a helmet with me today. airin: you can say you have helmet for bike. ha! benjamin: because maybe there are demonstration t tonight, maybe. i don't know. protests ababt the polilice and goverernt

officials, so maybe it would be better for me to get a helmet first. [speaking cantonese]

man: ok. airin: i actually don't want to get famous from rooftopping. it's just an instant. i think the protests inspired me. they were not satisfied with the electoral system in hong kong, so they start a demonstration here. the police didn't know what to do, so they used tear gas to make people go home. we used umbrella to protect us, and that's why the protest was called umbrella movement. i held

hong kong flag on the roof, and that went viral in hong kong. talk about that photo to anyone. they know about that photo. i don't think nothing changed. the government didn't changed, but the society changed. people awakened. benjamin: sorry. my hand is trembling. ha ha ha! i love to use cameras to record this city for some disappearing landscape. when u.k. agreed to hand over hong kong to china, china has agreed the living

style in hong kong is not going to be changed in 50 yearars, but we cannot seeee china is fulfilling its promise. i don't think weanan change thte situation now. maybe what we can do isis just taking photos s and

keep those memomories in ouour d of how this... i don't know what to say, but... oh! oh! i am quite lucky that i can live with my parents. it is too exexpensive to buyuy a flat in e future. [cat mews] mmm.

airin: hong kong is now the lleast affordable city in the world. i still live with my parents, and we always have conflicts. in a small flat, you see every day, there would be conflicts easily. i think they don't understand me since i was a kid. [fireworks exploding]

in hong kong, even going to a cafe or just have a dinner is really expensive. you cannot do this every day, so roof is free. let's try that one. you can see the street. there is a familiar in hong kong--graduation, find a good job, get married, have kids, be grandparents, and die. if you don't learn anything or you don't contribute in society, i think such kind of life is meaningless to me.

[woman speaking cantonese] woman: leung tin-kei! [crowd chanting and clapping] leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! leung tin-kei! [cheering and applause]

[speaking cantonese] [crowd chanting] man: each ofof you with yoyour e you give edward a bullet. where are the bullets? you guys have got the bullets. hold his machinegun and fight in the legislative council for us hong kongers. long live hong kong! long live hong kong! benjamin: he doesn't have any trust in the communist party and the hong kong government. he's saying to regain hong kong, and the younger generation is going to battle with the older generation in fighting for democracy but also

authority and citizens, the protestor and the police. [indistinct chatter] [shouting in cantonese]

[shouting]

airin: i was shocked when i saw the news at home. i was like, "what?" i didn't imagine that hongng kong peopople could do sh viviolent thin o on the strereet like burning stufff, throwing bricks, attacack the police becauause it's susuch a big cont to umbrerella prototest. it was rereally peaceful, but that t n, it was r really violenent, and i think people try other ways, other peaceful ways already, and they realized thatat it doesn't wwork, so they had to i it. i's kind of ththe governmement forcd peopople to be vviolent. i'm sick of it all. this is too ridiculouous. it's

like a group of rerely stupid people who are controlling the city. on the roof, you can see a lot of working robots, walking around without any purpose. then you think, "what's life for, just work?" when i see the robots, i think i don't want to be one of them. that's why i'm on the roof and seeing g you working. it seems that many peoplpldon't knonow the meaning of their liv. you put meaning it. you have to find the meanining for your ownn life.

[people speaking cantonese through megaphones] i don't supuprt violencnce. if u try to set a fire with fire, the yyou get more fire.

benjamin: today is the election day, and we are at the rally of

the candidatete. [chanting]

[man speaking cantonese on megaphone] [applause] [cheering] airin: ha ha ha! ohh! [louder cheering]

[crowd singing in cantonese] benjamin: maybe it's never too late.

airin: art is a kind of self-expression, which is being ignonored in hong kokong. hong kong is not just a financial center. we have a lot of other traditions, culture, and values. i want to show that, show that t in photos. this is culture, hong kong culture. we-- we havave paper stufuff--these l are made e in paper, and we burn it for ancestors. they receive it in the other world like food, money. nowadays, we also have cell ph--iphone--ha--car, ipad,

everything g you can imagine. yeah, i think it's important because traditions is a kind of identity. we can change hong kong by changing ourselves. learn m mor, speak more cantonese, try to keep this culture. we should always start from ourselves first. small, little things will lead to big changes like butterfly effect. in my books, i always write message just about "enjoy life, be yourself, take adventures."

i think the future will be getetting better because the yog people arere awakened. i don't feel worried. i ththink this

gogovernment should be worried because your people are standing up. we are not as beaten as before.

03/24/20 03/24/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york city, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, this is democracy now! pres. trump: america will again and soon be open for business. very soon. a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was adjusting. we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem i itself. amy: not dying for wall street. that's trending on twitter as

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