PROTES kenaikan harga barang bertempat di Flat 17 tingkat PKNS pada 9 Ogos bermula pukul 5:00 petang. 3 orang aktivis ditahan polis sebelum pelancaran protes bermula.

Saya bersama YB Dr.Hatta, YB Tian Chua, Arul (PSM), Ketua AMK Shamsul Iskandar, Haji Nahar (Jemaah Islam Malaysia (JIM),SUARAM, Saudara Sani (Ketua Pemuda PAS Kuala Langat), wakil-wakil Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia(SMM), GAMIS,JERIT dan beberapa teman prihatin lain yang turut serta dalam program pelancaran Bantah Pembaziran, Potongan Subsidi Rakyat dalam Usaha Menyelamatkan Wang Negara.

Program tersebut diadakan di pasar malam Kerinchi dan mendapat sambutan yang menggalakkan daripada penjaja, penduduk sekitar serta pengunjung pasar malam.
Malangnya, tindakan pihak polis menahan 3 orang aktivis tanpa sebab menunjukkan ketidakadilan dan kezaliman pihak mereka kerana PROTES tidak menganjurkan sebarang demonstrasi tetapi hanya melancarkan pengedaran risalah tentang kenaikan harga minyak dan barang baru-baru ini.

Walaupun kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak 5 sen, akan tetapi janji kerajaan bahawa penstrukturan semula subsidi akan dilaksanakan, untuk memastikan rakyat termiskin dilindungi tidak dilaksanakan. Program penstrukturan semula yang dirancang dan diberikan kepada Maybank gagal, tetapi potongan subsidi diteruskan jua. Penjana-penjana bebas masih kebal tidak tersentuh. Sila rujuk keratan risalah yang diedar semalam.

By Shannon Teoh

July 05, 2010

Pakatan Rakyat leaders attend the launch of FoPR in London yesterday, July 4, 2010. — Picture by Danny Lim

LONDON, July 5 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders continued their bullish stance towards a possible snap election by insisting that they would win big, when launching an outreach programme here yesterday.

Despite losing five MPs this year, they further taunted Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak by stating that the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition was running scared.

“Umno is in a state of panic. They see enemies everywhere,” PR secretariat chief Datuk Zaid Ibrahim told a crowd of over 200 at the launch of Friends of Pakatan Rakyat (FoPR) in London.

Other leaders at the FoPR launch, such as PAS treasurer Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli, DAP’s Kepong MP Dr Tan Seng Giaw and Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, were also confident of expanding their historic wins in Election 2008 into the next general election, which must be held by 2013.

Their upbeat mood followed Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s statement last week that PR would be ready should BN opt to dissolve Parliament early.

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Friday, 02 July 2010

Friends of Pakatan Rakyat (FPR) is being officially launched as an organisation to rally the support of Malaysians who share the vision of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition for a better Malaysia. The launch will be held on the Sunday 4th of July 2010 in London and officiated by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, the Pakatan Rakyat Secretariat Coordinator.

Speakers at the event will also include the ineffable Raja Petra Kamarudin as well as speakers from PAS and DAP together with a number of civil society activists  sharing their experiences in shaping the agenda of change in Malaysia.

Naturally we would like to attract as many as possible particularly the “unconverted” to experience first hand the depth of support that currently exists globally amongst Malaysians living abroad particularly in the UK.  The Friends of Pakatan Rakyat (FOPR) movement is currently being duplicated in various countries throughout Europe, Canada, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, etc.  The objective is to harness the global strength of highly qualified Malaysians and former Malaysians living and working abroad to tap into their expertise and financial strength in preparedness for GE 13.

Date:   Sunday 4th of July

Time:  10.30 am to 4pm.
Registration begins at 10am

Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL

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SILA UNDI ABE UJI, CALON PAS DAN JUGA CALON PAKATAN RAKYAT!!!

Media Massa menekankan ucapan Ustaz Hadi yang menggariskan kemungkinan Pas-Umno menjadi realiti. Tetapi Farish Noor (penganalisis politik tersohor negara) menyatakan sebaliknya “one can safely assume that any notion of a PAS-UMNO marriage of convenience has been put on the shelf…”

Wahai media massa, pembaca bukan bodoh.

 By Lim Kit Siang, via blog, on February 13, 2009

The Election Commission has provided another example of its craven subservience to serve Umno interests in fixing the simultaneous nomination and polling dates for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat in Perak and the Bukit Selambau state assembly seat in Kedah on March 29 and April 7 respectively.

Clearly, the fractious and internecine Umno party elections until March 28 had been the primary consideration of the Election Commission when deciding on the two by-election dates, so that the by-election campaign for the two constituencies will be held after the Umno party elections and Datuk Seri Najib Razak has officially taken over UMNO and become the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

But these are the very considerations which an independent and self-respecting Election Commission has no business to take into account when fixing election dates, as it has only reinforced strong public perceptions that the Election Commission is a mere Umno tool at the beck-and-call of the top Umno leadership.

The Election Commission has made dubious history in the fixing of the election dates for the Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau by-elections, stretching to the constitutional limit of the 60 days when they should be filled from the date of vacancy.

The by-elections of the Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau constituencies will be held on the 57th day from their vacancy, as compared to the 27th day for the Permatang Pauh by-election and the 51st day for the Kuala Terengganu by-election.

In his six weeks as the new Election Commission Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof had taken two decisions which have further undermined public confidence in the independence, professionalism and integrity of the Election Commission as they clearly serve Umno’s political agenda – the unconstitutional rejection of the Perak Speaker’s decision on the resignation of two PKR state assemblymen/executive councilors resulting in two state assembly vacancies (facilitating Najib’s illegal and unconstitutional grab for power in Perak) and today’s decision to fix the by-election dates calculated to best serve the political interests of Umno.

The Election Commission should reconsider to fix earlier by-election dates to demonstrate that it is not beholden to any political party’s dictates – even coming from Umno!