May 01
Protest in Front of Carrefour Ningbo (half an hour ago)
Today is May 1st.
Just came back from Carrefour Jiangdong chain.
By 11am, more than fifty protesters showed up in the square in front of Carrefour,waving Chinese national flags and shouting slogan " Oppose Separatist in Tiebt! Oppose France! Support China & Beijing Olympic".
More and more people gathered together, then cops started to take action. Some protesters were taken away gently by plainclothesmen.
Protestors who were under soft arrested were invited to a cafe, "Cops bought the bill and we had a good time" one protestor told me via Love China, a QQ group for protestors in Ningbo,proudly.
I got the source one week ago, it said the anti-Carrefour protest will kick off in 1pm, May 1st. For my experience, local police will prevent the protest from going to boiling point, so I decided to go there with my camera in the morning.
1pm, no more protestor and red flags in front of Carrefour but cops and police vehicle. Nothing happened in the afternoon.
In my opinion, it is a good lesson of democracy for local people who were waving the flags or just watching the protest curiously.
It is really delightful to see that they can express their viewpoints and emotion in public at least half an hour ( they showed up for half an hour,then were taken away immediately).
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