4 May 2023獨媒#6402
五四升旗禮首次採用中式步操 宣言「愛祖國、愛香港同開新篇」
Today marks the 104th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. The Hong Kong Youth Activities Committee of All Sectors held a flag-raising ceremony at Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai this morning, featuring Chinese-style drill for the first time. The organisation arranged for youth representatives to read out a May Fourth declaration, while all guests present stood to witness the oath. The declaration said: “In the new era, moving from governance to prosperity, young people have much to contribute; they have ideals, dare to take responsibility, can endure hardship, are willing to strive, love the motherland, love Hong Kong and open a new chapter.”
今日是五四運動104周年，香港各界青少年活動委員會早上在灣仔金紫荊廣場舉行升旗禮，為首次採用中式步操。團體安排青年代表宣讀五四宣言，在場嘉賓全體起立監誓，五四宣言中提到：「新時代由治及興、新青年大有可為、有理想、敢擔當，能吃苦、肯奮鬥、愛祖國、愛香港同開新篇」。
3 May 2023光傳媒#6396
前區議員聯署不支持今屆「假選舉」 葉錦龍：參與者非同路人
The government announced yesterday (2nd) its plan to “reform” the next-term District Councils, substantially reducing directly elected seats and establishing multiple mechanisms to vet councillors’ qualifications and performance. This morning, former Central and Western District Councillor Ip Kim-long and dozens of former councillors issued a joint statement under the name “Hong Kong’s last elected district councillors”, stating that they would not support this year’s “fake election” for the District Councils. As of 4:30pm, 39 people had signed the statement. It said that, due to the impact of the National Security Law, six former district councillors in Hong Kong could support the statement only anonymously.
政府昨日（2日）公布來屆區議會「改造」方案，大幅削減直選議席，並設立多項機制審查議員資格及表現。前中西區議員葉錦龍聯同數十名前議員，今晨以「末代香港民選區議員」名義發表聯署聲明，表明不會支持今年的區議會「假選舉」；截至下午4時半，聯署人數已達39人。聲明提及受《國安法》影響，有6名在港的前區議員只能以匿名方式支持聯署。
1 May 2023獨媒#6383
杜振豪改擺五一街站：無警察關注才算真復常
Former Confederation of Trade Unions chair Joe Wong and official To Chun-ho had originally planned to apply today to hold a march. However, Joe Wong withdrew the application for the May 1 march last week, while To Chun-ho, in the capacity of Cleaning Workers Union and general secretary of the Property Management Workers Union, set up a street booth in Tsuen Wan opposing the importation of foreign workers, with several police officers standing guard nearby. To Chun-ho said wryly that the attention from police officers and reporters that day was not normal: “I hope that when we set up street booths in future, things can return to normal, with not much attention from the police or reporters. That would be the best way for us to make contact with residents; that would be a truly return to normal.”
前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪原訂今日申辦遊行，惟黃迺元上周撤回五一遊行申請，杜振豪則以清潔工會及物管工會總幹事身份在荃灣開街站，反對引入外勞，多名警員在旁戒備。杜振豪苦笑指，是日街站引來警員和記者關注並不正常，「我希望之後做街站係可以復常到冇乜警察關注、冇乜記者關注，咁我哋接觸到街坊就最好啦，呢個先係真正嘅復常。」
1 May 2023獨媒#6384
五一冇遊行 社民連女工會到政總請願
Today marked the first May Day Labour Day since the pandemic. After the Labour Union and former Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions members withdrew their applications to march, the streets were without a procession, while several groups petitioned at Government Headquarters. League of Social Democrats chair Chan Po-ying criticised the government’s “Happy Hong Kong” campaign as “setting off fireworks with taxpayers’ money” and said it made light of workers’ demands. The Women’s Labour Association, with nearly 20 people, also petitioned, expressing dissatisfaction that “Happy Hong Kong” overlooked the hardships of grassroots people and calling for a $59 living wage, standard working hours and stronger protection for casual workers.
今日是疫情後首個五一勞動節，勞聯及前職工盟成員回遊行申請後，遊行缺席街頭，有團體先後到政總請願。社民連主席陳寶瑩批評政府力推的「開心香港」是「花銀紙放煙花」，輕視勞工訴求；婦女勞工協會則有近20人請願，不滿「開心香港」忽視基層辛酸，要求訂立59元生活工資及標準工時、加強保障零散工等。
1 May 2023獨媒#6386
女長毛口含苦瓜慢行旺角 以行為藝術嘆工人苦不堪言
Today is Labour Day. Having participated in marches every year in the past, “Lui Yuk Lin” Lui Yuk Lin had no march to attend this year and decided to use performance art in Mong Kok to portray workers’ hardships. She held a bitter melon in her mouth and hung another from her hair bun, signifying that the hardship was “unspeakable”. She also covered herself with slogans reading “workers’ hardship is unspeakable”, symbolising being “bitter from head to toe”.
今日是五一勞動節，過往每年參與遊行的「女長毛」雷玉蓮今年無遊行可去，決定在旺角以行為藝術訴說工人苦況。她口含一個苦瓜，髮髻上再掛上一個苦瓜，意味「苦不堪言」，再在身上貼滿「工人苦不堪言」標語，象徵「由頭苦到落尾」。
1 May 2023獨媒#6387
程展緯五一化身「真人圖書」邀車站路人聊天：清潔工有權說自己的故事
After staging a silent protest at Tai Wai Station on May Day last year, artist Luke Ching Chin Wai, who works as an MTR cleaner, returned to the station this May Day as a “human book”, inviting passers-by to listen to cleaners’ stories, including staff shortages and hourly wages far lower than those of government-contracted cleaners. He said that as someone concerned about labour issues, he wanted to come out on May Day in whatever form: “Cleaners have the right to talk about their own problems at their workplace. I insist on staying here because this is where I work.” Turning 51 today, he also said his birthday wish was for MTR to reform the design of its tendering process.
繼上年五一在大圍站默站後，任職港鐵清潔工的藝術家程展緯今年五一也回到車站，化身「真人圖書」，邀請路人聆聽清潔工故事，談及人手不足、時薪遠較政府外判清潔工低等。他自言作為關心勞工的人，在五一不論形式也想走出來，「清潔工有權喺自己嘅工作地方去講自己嘅問題，我堅持喺度，因為呢度係我工作嘅地方」。今日正好踏入51歲生日的他又提到，生日願望是港鐵改革標書設計。
29 Apr 2023明報#6382
工權會撤申遊行 改請願促訂工殤紀念日
The secretary-general of the Industrial Accident Victims’ Rights Association (the association), Sin Man Siu, said yesterday that after Hong Kong eased its anti-epidemic restrictions, the association submitted an application for a march in January and met with police in late March. She said police did not require participants to wear identification badges around their necks, but required a way to identify participants. As the association could not ensure that other petitioners would not join the march, and after taking reference from the Hong Kong Women Workers Association’s cancellation of its march on March 5, it expected that the application would not be approved and ultimately decided to withdraw it. She lamented that “without public and workers’ participation, the effect is very different”, but stressed that the association would express its demands in different forms.
工業傷亡權益會（下稱工權會）總幹事蕭倩文昨日透露，本港放寬防疫限制後，1月曾入紙申辦遊行，其後3月底曾與警方會面，引述警方席間無強制要求掛頸牌，但要求要有方法識別參與者。她說無法確保持其他訴求者混入遊行隊伍，加上參考香港婦女勞工協會取消3月5日的遊行，預計無法成功申辦，最終決定撤回申請，嘆說「無咗公眾和工友參與，效果差好遠」，但強調會以不同形式表達訴求。
27 Apr 2023獨媒#6366
杜振豪：黃迺元撤五一遊行申請不由自主 原因「大眾心中有數」
Whether there will be a march on May 1 this year remains unknown. After the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions withdrew its application, former Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chair Joe Wong and secretary To Chun-ho also cancelled their application yesterday (26th). On To Chun-ho’s Facebook page, it was stated that Joe Wong had been unreachable for a time and subsequently broke down emotionally during a phone call, “clearly under immense pressure”. In a radio interview this morning, To Chun-ho said he believed Joe Wong’s decision to cancel the application was not made voluntarily, adding that “the public knows full well what is going on”. He described the application as a test of society’s return to normality, saying, “The result is that Hong Kong still seems not quite a normal society.”
今年五一是否有遊行仍是未知之數，繼勞聯撤回遊行申請後，前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪昨（26日）亦取消申請；杜振豪在Facebook專頁稱黃曾一度失聯，其後致電時情緒崩潰、「顯然承受了巨大壓力」。杜振豪今早接受電台訪問表示，相信黃迺元取消申請的決定不由自主，背後原因「社會大眾都心中有數係咩事。」他又形容是次申請是對社會復常的試探，「結果係香港似乎仲係一個唔係好正常嘅社會。」
27 Apr 2023獨媒#6374
五一前夕「請願」 勞聯11人金鐘海富行去政總
Labour Day is next Monday. The Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions had earlier applied to hold a procession, but later withdrew the application over concerns that it could be “stigmatised and hijacked”. It held a petition today instead. The 11 participants walked from Admiralty Centre to the East Wing Forecourt of Government Headquarters, carrying banners and chanting slogans along the way. The action lasted about 10 minutes. Asked whether it was a small-scale procession, the federation’s chairman and Legislative Council member Lam Chun-sing said, “We don’t really care what form it takes.” He explained that the petition was not held on Labour Day itself to accommodate the schedules of unions and workers, as a workers’ seminar and a family day trip had been arranged for that day.
下周一是五一勞動節，早前曾入紙申請遊行、惟之後擔心「被污名化及騎劫」而撤回申請的勞聯，今舉行請願行動。11人由金鐘海富中心步行到政府總部東翼前地，沿途手持橫額並呼叫口號，歷時約10分鐘。被問到這是否小型遊行，勞聯主席、立法會議員林振昇稱「我哋都係唔理係咩形式啦」，又解釋未在勞動節當日請願，是為了遷就工會和工友時間，指當日有工友講座和一家大細一天遊。
26 Apr 2023獨媒#6360
鄧炳強稱市民有集會權利 未回應國安有否接觸黃迺元
Tang Ping-keung, the Secretary for Security who is leading a disciplined services cultural exchange delegation on a visit to Beijing, responded in the afternoon to Joe Wong’s withdrawal from the May 1 march. He did not respond to whether national security personnel had contacted Joe Wong, saying only that the reason for the withdrawal should be asked of Wong himself. He said that if anyone believed they were unable to ensure that a public event would be held safely and orderly, withdrawing it was “a very responsible thing to do”.
正在率領紀律部隊文化交流團訪問北京的保安局局長鄧炳強，下午回應黃迺元撤回五一遊行事件。他沒有回應是否有國安人員與黃迺元接觸，僅表示撤回的原因要問黃本人，而任何人若認為無能力確保公眾活動安全有序進行，撤回是「非常負責任嘅做法」。
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