Posted in Anwar, Fuel Hike, Parliament on Jul 9th, 2008 8 Comments »
So much talk on the indecent act at the Sunday PROTES rally. The slip during the performance gave the apologist press a filed day to condemn the organizer of the rally.
The government seems to have missed the big picture. There was a day-long gathering with all the speeches and chanting expressing objection to the fuel [...]
Posted in Activities, Fuel Hike, Visual on Jul 7th, 2008 9 Comments »
People started to gather at Kelana Jaya Stadium at 10:00hr.
Dr Hatta began the rally with his welcome speech. Irene Fernandez and a few political leaders were scheduled to deliver speeches in the morning slot. I gave my speech at about 11:00hr.
Posted in Fuel Hike on Jun 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
It is now 18:30hr. The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Shahrir Samad is making concluding speech.
The whole day of debate today is nothing but an exercise to justify the government’s ill-thought and unpopular decision to raise petrol price. Actually, it is a waste of time when the government already decided and insisted on burdening [...]
Posted in Fuel Hike, Parliament, Visual on Jun 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
This morning (23 June), a few of KeADILan MPs decided to ride bicycle to the Parliament. Gobalakrishnan, Hee Loy Sian, Zulnordin and I gathered at Bank Negara and biking to the Parliament House.
The action was to highlight the hardship and impracticality of changing lifestyle. Even if the people wanted to change lifestyle: using bicycle, or [...]