今早其他相片
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94614832@N00/?saved=1

一二三「大遊行」的頹照。
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23553050@N00/sets/72157594402958166/

可否在這一兩天, 用彩色氣球築起一道牆(我估一千個氣球應足夠有餘), 於上班時間阻止汽車, 工人進入?
這應可吸引大眾的注意, 而形象上亦比較正面及
鮮明.

有意的朋友請找我, 96734989, 浩賢
或email 我, icarus55@gmail.com

如果決定是有價值行動，雖千萬人吾往矣。唔須要後悔，為善最樂、施恩莫望報。麻怨他人忘恩負義，反而令到自己墮入悔恨糾纏，肯定自己輸。

下午到美利大廈的城規會上訴委員會做完人肉打字機，傍晚五點鐘又回到天星，開了一天工後，包着鐘樓的金屬架已經完成、對着海的一面亦搭了一個竹棚，大鐘的前面掛上了綠布，預料明天整個鐘樓就會被布包着，大家將不會看見裏面發生什麼。等綠布揭開後，鐘樓就會像大衛高柏飛表演魔術後一樣，不見了。

聽仍留在現場的朋友說，有工人話，搭起金屬架是因為有官員要巡視。而據我所知，救救天星的朋友除了守候在地盤門口外，還正循另一些渠道阻止工程。因此，目前的首要工作是暫緩拆卸工程，換取時間，令其他朋友有時間從另一面打。

傍晚時份，很多人拿着攝影機到天星對面的停車場天台拍照，停車場的女護衛說：「這裏是停車場，這裏不准拍照的。」我說：「都就拆啦，俾佢地影埋先啦。」阿姐說：「哦，好快d嗱。」從天台望向地盤門口，只見到小小的一個黑衣人，過往每日數以萬計的人來往的碼頭、在告別人數以萬計的人擁去「拍照留念」的碼頭，今天傍晚全香港幾百萬人只有一個人在守着。

回到辦公室，很急切地和兩名編輯想辦法。編輯L說，我的文章令到今早參與的朋友難過，因為大家其實都是知其不可為而為之，而在這段日子裏，舉步維艱的運動已令到參加者很重很重。

綜合蒐集到的意見：

●有人認為不好將行動堆在地盤門口搞，譬如組織班人用「玩具槌」打金紫荊﹝我們最討厭的公共建築或雕塑﹞。

●有人認為，就算有二十人好有承擔衝突的決心，他們的行動與令政府感到麻煩/壓力仍然有很大差距。還有，我們到底知不知道攔阻開工之後想達到什麼目的。他建議，我們應該對今次天星運動作一次很深刻的反省﹝direct quote：大徹大悟、痛定思痛﹞。

●有人認為，問題唔係冇得搞，而係組織，我地太遲動員.....至少係有一個組織，或一群人，有信心動員起來做阻攔，承擔衝突......阻攔係最直接及具衝突性的訊息，唔俾你拆......宜家個勢係，大家唔想拆，但卻是軟趴趴的，政府會話，我都唔想拆，冇辦法喇．

討論到這裏，我自己不懂得如何接下去，拋出來大家談。

We DON'T give up. We fight until the last minute. We are already proceeding legal action. We believe the pier is ours. It is still there. Even through the building is slight damaged, but as long as we manage to call stop to the demolition, we can repair it. So our fight is only just at the beginning, not the end.

It will take the construction quite a long time to smash the building. We can extand their progress as long as we can possibilly can to give time for the legal action to come through.

Spoken to their worker during my action yesterday. They were very stressed by the pressure, from the client. Because they urgent them to finish the work earlier than from their original schedule, but at the same time they have to deal with many complaint from the public. It is because the site is right at the heart of Hong Kong. They are not allowed to cause any pollution to the environment or the public, including noise, air(dust or smell), waste management, safety management and their public image(this is a new thing). Their workers are very stressed and unhappy because they have to avoid any complaint to be established. As the company will need to pay HK$150,000 fine to each complaint.

Cause as many work delay to the construction as possible.

Make as many formal complain to LCSD, or ETD for any pollution problem you find from the construction or from the worker behavior in and out the site. For every complaint, they need to stop the work to deal with the complaint first. So this can cause their work delay.

2.
- 表達我們對此舊建築的永遠鍾愛, 不是一個「新海濱設計」和「新碼頭」可以取代

- 人牆可以暫時阻擋工程, 有數十人都可望阻半日

Any distraction to the worker whether for curiosity or stress can cause work delay. Act in group can achieve best effect. Individual is also good.

組織一次喪禮, 大家一齊佈置靈堂, 致送白菊花, 黃菊花, 有心者披孝服, 在一旁燒衣紙,向市民派發黑紗, 找人殯儀館的人吹D打.

This can cause them a whole day delay. Do it.

大家

在此post埋我個email，我們都在從新反思，並計劃組織一個討論關於城市及規劃發展，有最新消息都通知大家。

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This a very important message, please forgive my poor english.

At this stage, I think we should stop execute our wrong representation
towards the star ferry action, stop the action that makes the people
feel annoy, stop the funeral, stop the ceremony......otherwise,we will
lost the support and realization from the public in futures struggling
towards the city.

Our action actually focusing on the city planning, fight for our
participation towards the city in the cultural and historical context,
not simply as common memory, not personal emotions. It is ecause all
those common memory and emotions are not convincing enough to ask for
the support from the public. Memory and nostalgic doesn't mean a thing
in Hong Kong. Our aims are actually far more important and meaningful
then this.

The representation of our action as a mourning ceremony is totally
wrong. Coz once you finished the funeral, the "thing" must have to
die! In these couples of day I was thinking of the reason why people
do not support us. I found that when the public finished all those
ceremony (taking photos, tears, travel with the last ship....etc.),
they won't keep it alive in order to make their ceremony reasonable!
They just give it up.

That's how people treat their memory that we are emphasize in this
actions. Of course, the mass media took responsible at this point too.
Coz they reported the whole things as a good memory that we have to
keep (which can be easily solved by taking a photo and scan it.). From
the very first beginning, we failed to keep emphasize on our concerns
of the city, keep our own aim, we lose already.

Right now, the legal actions and educational talks or forum are the
only thing that we should keep over the star ferry. Coz we can lose
the understanding from the publics, we still have other battles.

I quote my answer in a forum that someone challenge me - " The Mong
Kok's local canteen (the customer are mainly prostitute and gangs)
also have to be removed, between this and the star ferry, what should
you keep?" My answer like this and this should be what we fight . We
actually know it very well, but should focus on how we execute it.
(sorry, it is in chinese):

如果我要答你，可以的話，我一定會又救鐘樓又救雞，隨此之外，還有太多太多，觀塘灣仔梅窩石建尾十八區等等等等，阻止每個區都單一發展為商場、露天茶座、金銀銅鋼紫荊、skywalk、星光大道。可是我只是一個人，又怎樣擋得這麼多。

問題的根本就是如此，為何要人來救？為何城市的發現容不下我們的參與，為何我們要一而再、再而三地容忍那些西裝友空降給我們的惡趣味？壞設計？

一個城市容不下自已的文化，容不下我們的生存心態，當然容不下大排擋，當然容不下妓女。否則的話，為什麼他們在砵蘭街要起朗豪坊，就是要抬高地價，把妓女、爛仔的生計都趕絕，建立一個冇罪惡、冇窮人、冇妓女、冇人食煙的香港。

但是，那代不代表窮人、爛仔、妓人、煙民從此不再出現？他們只會更被邊緣化，連旺角都浦唔起，更不用說中環、Soho。最後，煙民個個被迫出街上面食煙，窮人要去天水圍住，政府冇眼屎乾淨盲。

保護鐘樓只是一個開始，因為它屬於普遍香港人共同享用（人肉市場我也只是食過一次飯），理應能夠號召多些香港人的參與。如果鐘樓也保不住，那如我所說，城市規劃的喪鐘響起，場仗有排打。

thanks all buddy.

ger，衝衝動動寫完稿後我都好唔安樂，我真的有回去推人郁，只是大家的理由說服了我──現在inmedia才插手天星，太遲了。

近來聽到一些建議，總結下來我們目前有三樣野應該做：

一﹞檢討由藝術圈和專業界牽頭的保天星運動為何以失敗告終？
二﹞建立一個跨區的關注重建聯盟，將目前零散的和互不往來的地區居民運動拉在一起，擺脫目前救火式的工作方法。﹝譬如將會破壞廟街的油麻地幹線，不等再待到要起時才反對﹞
三﹞建立深思熟慮的香港本土性和主體性論述，一套可以與主流的發展觀、定位觀相抗衡的說法。

如何令不同界別的人不再各自為政？如何令關注天星的人也關注大角嘴的街坊？反之亦然。一條無形的界線已經生成了──專業人士和藝術圈專搞沒有居民的公共建築﹝大多集中在中環﹞，其餘的社運人社工人則往港九各舊區鑽。

正如 ger 所說, 主流的呈現是一種鄉愁的呈現.

若能於幾個月前開始發揮民間另類報導, 討論城規決策, 官僚態度, 對旅遊業的影響, 比較首爾與香港的城市想像, 推一些專業人士和官員出來講野, 令到運動有一個正面, 朝向未來的動力(而不是傷春悲秋)...

當然, 依家都係一啲講返轉頭的東西, 但 public discourse 的建立, 真的很重要.

講真, 收到祭天星的網上 post card, 我的感覺很 disempowering, 覺得大家都預咗天星死硬了, 還叫我出去做咩呢?

Dear all,

I read the latest on the article on the 8am ‘block-the-demolition’. To save time to join it, I’d like to respond here.

That’s pix was actually me, in front of the big truck. I understand a bystander (participant) could be pissed off when the ‘action’ becomes a photo-shoot incident. I hopped over there because I really didn’t know what else to do. Climb on it? Stay at the entrance to ‘block’ it? Sorry, I am too self-conscious to do that. For me, sometimes even having a picture taken requires courage.

I can’t speak for others, but what I was thinking that night before, deciding on whether to go in the morning, was “just to go.” I had no illusion that the human chain could be formed, like ger said in her article. No illusion at all. I knew that I was not ready to stay there until someone came to bring me away (on a police car). I don’t like that kind of confrontation. I don’t like to be touched by a stranger.

This ‘just to go’ decision was the result of an earlier action. Remember Loy was planning to go into the tower, stay overnight, and hang banners? I was thinking to myself the day before that this kind of action wasn’t needed, at that time. Similar views like some people said in inmedia- maybe this is negative publicity, maybe people will not understand...etc.etc. Loy called me the night and we talked a bit about how to do that action. I didn’t have any suggestions except to say, Loy, if you were not ready to do this for any reason, don’t feel you have to. She told me, if I don’t do this now, I will never. I then called the television stations to go there in the morning.

The next morning, I woke up late only to realize Tsang tak ping called at 5:28am to say that Loy’s in there. I missed the whole thing. I missed not the chance to view it, but to support it. I actually missed it the day before by ‘discouraging’ loy and others to do that.

I felt very bad the next day. I felt ashamed and I felt I have wronged myself, for saying something that amounts to discouraging someone’s ‘heart’ for freedom of her body. I decided I should never do that again.

So, ‘just to go.’ I believe everyone has a little shell/ cage/ pigeon hole that is waiting to be stepped out of. After one step, another shell will be formed, without one’s knowing.

Organized social action/ movement (not that I know too much/ have much experience in that) must be viewed in relation/ tension/ contradiction with personal transformation. A person is always in public, and what one does, can do, will actually do in public, relates to her/his personal transformative power. Everyone has his/her own rhythm of achieving that, and allowing it to happen throughout the whole life time. No one can be, should be, forced, because this itself the most inhumane thing to do.

I don’t’ know what it takes to have an ‘organized’ front based on some solidarity. I can only see that we are more critical, but perhaps not to the point where we understand how our bodies relate to social space, and respond to it to be revealing. My hunch is that activism requires that.

There is a lot to learn.

Thanks for reading.
yang2