HONG KONG - Hong Kong anti-government protesters queued outside businesses that openly support the democracy movement on Friday, a show of support for “yellow” restaurants and cafes reeling from the twin impact of the coronavirus crisis and months of demonstrations.
Long lines formed at many restaurants and cafes, snaking out onto streets thanks to an online campaign dubbed “Hongkonger’s 5.1 Golden Week” that called on people to visit yellow businesses over the long May Day weekend. The central government rejects criticism that Beijing is encroaching on the city’s much-cherished freedoms.
A ban on gatherings of more than four people remains in place, but some flout the rules on public holidays and weekends. Restaurants are required to operate at half their capacity and set tables at least 1.5 meters apart. The “yellow economic circle”, which contrasts with “blue” businesses, or those deemed pro-government, is seen as a way for people to support the protest movement through peaceful means.At Mainichi restaurant in the bustling working class district of Mong Kok, sales had plunged 70% since the outbreak of the coronavirus, but business was booming this week thanks to yellow circle promotions.
Mainichi’s owner Chong, 35, formed a group called “Small Mong Kok Alliance” with yellow shops nearby and he offers his customers a yellow discount card to shop at members’ outlets.“I have seen many young people come out and make sacrifices for Hong Kong’s future. My restaurant is also part of the society, I want to make use of it to support the demands of the students. Their demands are also my demands,” Chong said.
HK terrorists are calling the US/UK to come 'help' them, they fly their flags and sing their anthems, they call on Donald Trump to step in, they are siding with capital/ privilege, and by supporting them you would be doing the same.Supporting those terrorists is anti-leftist.
BoycottChina , and develop our local economy. YellowEconomicCircle is our attempt to struggle with China CCP. StandWithHongKong together!
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I spent about 1k. Keep it coming, I will spend every single penny in yellow firms and yellow firms only. Come on CCP
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I see Gandhi ✊✊✊ These Hongkong people are going to inspire movements for human rights and freedom across the world.
We can only find 'freedom' while spending our money. However, this is also criticized by CCP Hongkong MayDay GoldenWeek YellowEconomicCircle
HKers gather to attack yellow shops to punish them & make them overloaded for supporting Hong Kong protesters. When does Chinese Liaison Office have the authority to require us how to spend our money? HKGoldenWeek
Please help HK people. I am an ordinary HK-er. My people are suffering and being tortured by police violence. We have no way to trace The police brutality. And they use the Hong Kong Basic Law article 23 to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of press in HK.
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We need to support pro-democracy business as they pay effort to the HongKongProtests (e.g join the strike,hire the arrested protesters,donation...) StandWithHongKong MayDay2020 YellowEconomicCircle
every person in support of democracy and in disdain for totalitarianism is a brother, and when a brother needs , another helps
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As HKer, we united as one. We are the frontline, opposing the dictatorship of Chinese Communist Party.
ching00123 Genuine HKers will only consume in the YellowEconomicCircle! It's a gesture of conscience n righteous as well to fight totalitarian China! I urge people around the🌍 to BoycottChineseProducts not only for safety/reliability, also one way to make evil murderer CCPchina pay!!
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HongKongProtesters keep go on💪🏻
Creative and genius idea for the week of 1 May 5 Demands, not 1 less🖐️☝️ chinazi HKPoliceTerrorists HongKongProtests
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Stand_with_HK peaceful way for our democratic movement
YellowEconomicCircle 黃色經濟圈 五一黃金週
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Humans right is important, free HongKong like what it used to be, free HongKong like what China left HK for their own safety.But don’t hurt anyone and yourself
CCP’s Liaison Office said ‘shopping’ is burnism, is ‘riot’. StandWithHongKong
hongkonger20196 We call on the world Boycott ccp . Please BoycottChina ! hongkonger hope that the world can fight the CCP .🙏
It is disgusting for China to condemn yelloweconomiccircle because they are the one to start economic sauction against pro-democratic artists. There is nothing wrong spending money on restaurants with same rationale of pursuing freedom and democracy. StandWithHongKong
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This must be the “extreme radicals” way to “disturbing shops”
This will become a habit in the daily life of Hongkongers.
We will not stop this time, we will fight at all time. Every festival, everyday. FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong
StandWithHongKong stand with democracy and freedom. Go to 'yellow firms' liberatehk freehk
Support the YellowEconomicCircle! 5DemandsNot1Less
5-1 is not only for the week, it will be for life
It is a sign that making money does not necessarily mean you need to kowtow to China. Simple.
We're Hongkongers and this is the action of us to fight for freedom and part of StandWithHongKong This is our choice to show our economy power and BoycottChina and decouplechina The world join us plz and wake up to stop China control SOSHK YellowEconomicCircle
Spending money in Yellow Shops make me much happier. That's what microeconomics teaches us. YellowEconomicCircle 5DemandsNot1Less
I don’t want give my money to China companies and businesses, support Hongkongers
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We Hongkongers will never GIVE UP! They can use different laws to control our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. And we will fight back in every aspects, including how we want to SPEND OUR MONEY.
Conscience is the name of the game. Commie lie HK cry
CCP morons & its backed medias keep criticizing yellow shops for months. That means yellow shops concept is a threat to China.
It’s my money, I have my choice to decide how I spend it. Wasting money on pro-government businesses? Sorry, NO.
Hongkongers support ethical small & medium business!
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Say no to Red China shops and products.
Hongkong3333333 'When your enemies keep attacking your idea, say that you are nothing but a waste, it means you are doing well, and hurt them really hard' - Chairman Mao It is why the Pro-China media keep attacking YellowEconomicCircle💪 We hurt them bad StandWithHongKong AnywherebutChina
HK people know ChinaLiedPeopleDied so we build YellowEconomicCircle to DecoupleChina. Can I invite MilkTeaAlliance to join?
We feel truly thankful for all local businesses in Hong Kong who are still willing to support the pro-democracy movement despite facing continuous harassment by the Hong Kong cops. And we let our money speak for us.
support you bros and sisters, StandWithHongKong
fuxk china, china? say no
HongKongProtests is still going strong after the coronavirus, especially when shops depend more on local demands now. FiveDemandsNoOneLess
It is feeling so great to spend money in these yellow firms. Supporting each other is one of the important values among all the protesters against the CCP China.
We pay for people who share the same values with ourselves. No only the yellow economic circle, many of us also stop buying the made in China product.
Our money is our voice to show support to companies and restaurants which have same rationale with us. StandWithHongKong saynotochina chinazi
5.1 Golden week refers to 5DemandsNot1Less Golden week. FightForFreedom StandWithHK FreeHK
We feel truly thankful for all local businesses in Hong Kong are still willing to support the pro-democracy movement despite facing continuous harassment by the Hong Kong cops. And we let our money speak for us.
Jokes to the ones who said the movement has 'died down'! The last thing HongKongers would do is to give up! Apart from that, we also LOVE to spend😂 Combine money n belief n perseverance, this is the result. 5DN1L HKGoldenWeek
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🖐️☝️is the main theme of this campaign, it's belong to Hongkongers
Rebuild our local economy without Chinese visitors. StandWithHongKong
I suppose Hong Kong people are free to flock to eateries / shops they like
One of Hongkongers’ protests tactics! We support each other as a community to preserve our core values! We are fighting against evil CCP’s penetration and corruption!
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Thanks for reporting! We will keeping fighting against the evil CCP! WuhanVirus ChinaMustPay ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied
Everyone plz keep doing!! Good Job Today!!👍 BoycottChineseProducts AnywherebutChina
Doesn't the United States give them money? Dogs also need to earn their own money to buy dog food?
Support yellow shop, boycott blue shop 🖐️☝️
Keep it up yellow firms!! Love shopping and eating in yellow stores. Feels like my money is well spent💛 51GoldenWeek YellowEconomicCircle
Always support YellowEconomicCircle
Please support yellow economic circle. Show you political opinions through you spending. YellowEconomicCircle StandwithHK HKGoldenWeek HKProtests
In YellowEconomicCircle we trust. Let’s reclaim the meaning of HKGoldenWeek!
This is our little thing that HKers could do to tell 5DemandsNot1Less as well. LabourDay
Each coin counts as a vote. Hong Kongers choose our way to live. 5DemandsNot1Less HongKong
YellowEconomicCircle is mainly the restaurants that share the same belief, for example, they fight for democracy and 5 demands. Not really to back Hong Kong protest movements.
WilsonLeungWS You have to love the people of Hong Kong. This is exceptionally clever
HKers start cutting ties with China. Who needs Chinese tourists who bring nothing but chaos to HongKong? hongKongindependence HongKongisnotChina
Your money your vote, BoycottChina is the easiest to fight against China, everyone around the world please try or consider it 💪🏼
5 demands not 1 less
I feel glad and comfortable when I spend my money to YellowEconomicCircle 👍
Hongkongers keep fighting in creative ways, support yellow economic circle restaurants
'Yellow shops', just like any other shop in HK or even across the world, are significantly affected in this WuhanCoronavirus pandemic. Now the 'yellow crowd', the majority, are returning favour to the shops' support for the protesters. People call it the YellowEconomicCircle.
To me it's the most enjoyable 5.1 Golden Week (五一黃金週) in years as our economy has long been distorted for those parallel traders. When HKPoliceState is taking advantage of the pandemic to curtail freedom, it's our obligation & pleasure to support YellowEconomicCircle !
This is a solid proof. YellowEconomicCircle does work.
We will support yellow shop forever
yellow ribbons 🎗 support yellow shops = YellowEconomicCircle
We showed our support to the pro democracy candidates in local election with our votes last year, and we support these shops with our bank notes, not only today. 💛 YellowEconomicCircle
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As a Hongkonger fighting for freedom and democracy, we should give our support to the pro-democracy business, especially in this coronavirus crisis.
We in Hong Kong dun have UniversalSuffrage so we use the money in our pocket to vote for what we want and who we stand with LabourDay YellowEconomicCircle
Every time you spend your money shows what price you stand with. Say no to CCP! BoycottChineseProducts AnywherebutChina HKProtests
Keep it up, my fellow Hongkongers.
Activities for HKGoldenWeek, to secure the jobs in yellow shops, even there's economic impacts caused by coronavirus pandemic, HKers will try our best to make yellow shops survive through the crisis YellowEconomicCircle
To the young man: I felt sorry. We will do our best to get HongKong Revise!! StandWithHongKong HongkongPoliceTerrorism
To win this war, merely protest is not enough..strong self sustain economic force is also important to make HK be free of any interference from CCP_is_terrorist FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong LabourDay2020
💛BUY YELLOW EAT YELLOW💛
That’s the economic power of YellowEconomicCircle We will only support those who back HongKongProtests 5DemandsNot1Less
Not only for golden week only , YellowEconomicCircle needs sustainable support of HongKongers !!
Spend each dollar wisely. Strengthen the YellowEconomicCircle; so to support the business share the same values and reward them for supporting the social movement.
YellowEconomicCircle is mainly the restaurants that same the same belief, for example, they fight for democracy and 5 demands. Not really to back Hong Kong protest movements.
I love that idea so much. Every dollar we spend is a vote for the future we want.
Political suppression can never kill our ideas and innovation. A lot of shops have been sacrificing their revenue to provide protestors with financial support and job opportunities since the movement. Many of them were targeted by the police as well. HongKong
We will always support them!! We are strong!!🔥💛💛💛
YellowEconomicCircle is a concept of supporting business which fight for freedom and democracy
Protest is transformed to economic way. It aimed to drive out Communist China's economic influence in Hong Kong. YellowEconomicCircle
In YellowEconomicCircle, I’m not just spending money to enjoy goods and services but also conscience.
Yellow Economic Circle is one of the important frontlines. HongKongProtests
Since they support HongKongProtests, pro-democracy protesters are now rewarding shops and restaurants that support their cause by building a “yellow” economy. It is a win-win situation. LabourDay HongKong YellowEconomicCircle
1 May = 5.1, the date of 5DemandsNot1Less It’s also the holidays which Hongkongers should save the local small business which pro-democracy & StandWithHongKong during the CoronavirusPandemic economic crisis
Yes, support and spend on “yellow” firms
We need to re-build the health economic system, as it has the RED economic system before the YELLOW one
Many HongKongers queued up to support the pro-democracy shop. Our economy is also affected by the coronaviris, but we’ll keep spending money in our YellowEconomicCircle!! 💛
Long queues formed (we all wear masks!) at the 'yellow' restaurants. Hong Kong citizens still support the camp of pro-democracy & pro-freedom - we're still here!
No matter how hard HongKong govt bad mouthed the YellowEconomicCircle, ordinary HongKongers defied the expectations of the ruling class w/ actions, like the election last Nov. HongKongProtests're always here. Only the form changed, as the slogan 'Be Water' implied.
This is a brilliant way to ignite the protest. By supporting YellowEconomicCircle, the Golden Week adds fuel to the movement and HKers are ready to get back to streets. HKers, assemble!
LabourDay please support the shops whose bosses and staff are with conscience FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong
Protest in another format, FightForFreedom ANTICCP
It’s the unique way for hongkongers to FightForFreedom Every money they spend is showing their vote and what kind of future they are building up 5DemandsNot1Less HongKongProtests StandWithHongKong 51goldenweek
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