What were happened in here on 1st Oct.?
Luckily we have 2 days public holidays in here, because 1st and 2nd are the PRC international day. Basically Chinese should celebrate this great DAY everywhere, just like this pic.; having a National flag-raising ceremony in the Lotus square.
But, in another corner of an area of 28.6 sq.km in Macao SAR, several group of people showed up and demonstration peacefully walked up on the street, what have they appealed for?
Around 1300 Motorists drove their motorcycles to against the (New Traffic Road Law). and sounding horns on to against the (New Traffic Road Law), one of the laws is to prohibit illegal parking for Motorcycle.
Actually, there are around eight-five thousands motorbikes in here and the actual parking spaces for them are less than thirty thousands.
These are our local security policemen.
In the central area, another group about 50 teachers and social workers joining in the procession for the first time.They are carrying banners and shouting slogans: "Encourage Teachers”, "Macao Education got sick," and demanded the government to "upgrade teacher professional status, address teacher voice." "Face of educational crisis", "reconstruction of teen-agers values of orientation."
Most of the demonstrationists gave their letters to the Govt. for seeking solve problem. Would they accepted it or not, is yet a question.
6 Comments:
The right to do that is so important that in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution they wrote: Congress shall make no law ... abridging... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
In the US now, as in China, you can still do that as long as it isn't anything the government really cares about. ;^)
Only 2 days of holiday? I thought it supposed to be one whole week as it called "The Golden Week"
Demostration.... same like in Indonesia.
PandaB.
U said it right. As an old Chinese proverb says:“the world is like black crows."
Interpretation:“Bad analogy around the bad guys are almost everywhere are the same dark. As the world like the crows are black.”
Perhaps people are having too much pressures, it is a good way to release.
Selba:
Though the Government of PRC resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao since 1999, according to the basic low of the Macao S.A.R. of the PRC, we still under the principal of “one country, two systems”, the socialist system and policies won’t be practiced in here.
We have our own special public holidays in a year, much better than China.
In the US now, as in China, you can still do that as long as it isn't anything the government really cares about. ;^)
The last part of that comment is oh, so (sadly) true right now. Yes, the freedom to assemble and the freedom to speak your mind have long been treasured cornerstones of the U.S.A.. Now, however, in the W-Bush era, we have seen peaceful demonstrations behind security barricades ordered to disperse and then baton-charged and randomly pepper-sprayed. (It happened in my home city, Portland, in August of 2002. The police admitted that security was never an issue; the demonstrators were ordered to move because they were "upsetting" the President, who was at a Republican fund raiser there.) We have seen peaceful demonstrations in 2004 forced by authorities into barbed-wire enclosures far away from their intended audience.
More recently, we have seen people tasered and arrested for asking questions.
Hopefully Macao will have a bit more luck.
I'm never a fan of demonstrations. People in groups in a negative atmosphere as in demos give me the creeps.
PP, hope you enjoyed the holiday though.
well think about it in a way..2 days of public holiday is always good!
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