Do You Hear the People Sing

modified from Les Miserables

1st July join the crusade

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Do you hear the people sing? 你是否聽見人們在高歌?
Singing a song of angry men? 高唱著憤怒之歌?
It is the music of a victim Who will not be slaves again! 這是他再不為受苦所唱的歌聲
When the beating of your heart 當你的心回應音樂中的鼓聲，
Echoes the beating of the drums 一起跳動時，
There is a life about to start 將會有一個嶄新的生命重新開始
When tomorrow comes! 我們不怕，因為天就要亮了。
Will you join in our crusade? 你願加入我們的聖戰嗎?
Who will be strong and stand with me? 你會堅強地和我站在一起嗎?
Beyond the barricade 在路障之外；
Is there a world you long to see? 你是否看到了有個你長久以來嚮往的美麗新世界?
Then join in the fight 那麼，加入這場奮戰吧!
That will give you the money to be free! 奮戰才能使你取得到本金的權利。
Do you hear the people sing? 你是否聽見人們在高歌?
Singing a song of angry men? 高唱著憤怒之歌?
It is the music of a victim Who will not be slaves again! 這是他再不為受苦所唱的歌聲
When the beating of your heart 當你的心回應音樂中的鼓聲，
Echoes the beating of the drums 一起跳動時，
There is a life about to start 將會有一個嶄新的生命重新開始
When tomorrow comes! 我們不怕，因為天就要亮了。
Will you give all you can give 你願傾盡所有，付出一切
So that our banner may advance 使得我們理想的大旗得以飛揚前進嗎?
Some will fall and some will live 我們中有些人會倒下，有些人會存活
Will you stand up and take your chance? 你願意與我同行並肩冒險嗎?
The blood of the martyrs Will water the meadows the financialgovernance of Hong Kong! 在廢證監和金管下犧牲者的血汗錢將洗淨香港金融的醜惡!
Do you hear the people sing? 你是否聽見人們在高歌?
Singing a song of angry men? 高唱著憤怒之歌?
It is the music of a victim Who will not be slaves again! 這是他再不為受苦所唱的歌聲
When the beating of your heart 當你的心回應音樂中的鼓聲，
Echoes the beating of the drums 一起跳動時，
There is a life about to start 將會有一個嶄新的生命重新開始
When tomorrow comes! 我們不怕，因為天就要亮了。

南華早報
Big turnout expected for July 1 democracy rally

The economic slowdown and a widening wealth gap in Hong Kong will push turnout in the annual July 1 march for democracy to a new high for Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's tenure, organisers of the event predict. Legislator Lee Cheuk-yan, general secretary of the Confederation of Trade Unions, made the prediction yesterday as the Civil Human Rights Front announced details.
"We are not making use of the bad economy to mobilise people, but people will see that the culprit for the economic problems is an undemocratic government. When there is democracy, grass-roots citizens' lives will be better," Jackie Hung Ling-yu, of the front's rights committee, said.
The front said the highest turnout for the July 1 rally since Mr Tsang became chief executive was 68,000, in 2007. It said more than 47,000 marched last year, but the police count was 15,500 and a count by the University of Hong Kong gave a range of between 17,000 and 19,000.
For the first time, the front will be joining five pressure groups, including a Christian group and those pushing for a minimum wage law and sexual minority rights.
The number of marchers is expected to be given a further boost as aggrieved investors from the Alliance of Lehman Brothers Victims in Hong Kong have told the organisers that they would participate. Some 48,000 Hongkongers lost most of the HK$20 billion they invested in credit-linked derivatives, such as minibonds, issued or guaranteed by Lehman Brothers when the US investment bank collapsed in September.
Protests against "mistakes in governance", a "wide wealth gap", along with demands for a "return of power to the people" and "improvement in livelihood" will be the four themes.
The march will also commemorate the 20th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Meanwhile, Danish sculptor and human rights activist Jens Galschiot has made a fresh complaint to the Immigration Department following its refusal to say whether he will be allowed to visit Hong Kong to attend protests marking the Tiananmen Square crackdown. "I cannot help seeing the letter from the immigration authority as a disguised attempt to prevent me from going to Hong Kong to commemorate the 1989 massacre," Galschiot said. The letter said the department could not say in advance whether he would be allowed to visit.
12 May 2009