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Archive for November, 2008:

video showing the arrest in PJ

guess not many of you will have forgotten the vigil at the civic centre in PJ, where the riot police brutally cracked down on the peaceful protestors of ISA while singing the national anthem. 23 people were arrested, and as i blog here (and this post too about those arrested),  2 of my friends were [...]

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another proof – umno still think they are the gov’t

from malaysiakin, ‘UMNO must steet gov’t policies’: Umno vice-president Mohd Ali Rustam once again reiterated that the party must take control of the government to ensure Umno policies, especially the New Economic Policy (NEP), are being implemented effectively at all levels across the nation. whoaa!! "umno MUST take CONTROL of the government to ensure UMNO [...]

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tell me something, i don’t know, judge

… yeah please don’t tell me something i already knew, already aware of long long time ago."religious freedom not for muslims" said retired judge, datuk faiza tamby chik when delivering a working paper entitled, “malay and islam in malaysian constitution” at the two-day International seminar on comparative laws (ISCOM 2008). datuk faiza tamby chik said, [...]

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a song of freedom for the ISA detainees

yes, we are still hoping and hoping the ISA detainees will be free. let’s continue to press for the abolishment of ISA  so that all detainees will be free. this is a video of paula and howie singing the cliff richard’s song ‘sing a song of freedom’ which was the last song of the vigil [...]

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you are invited to my birthday party…

… but please take note that there will be no birthday cake, nor will there be birthday song sung. you must also not bring me birthday presents as i’m not allowed to open presents. the party will be without any activities or indication like a birthday banner/sign that reflect it is my birthday. and while [...]

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the vigil at the esplanade

UPDATED: photos posted. we, the organisers of the anti ISA vigil in penang on 15 nov. at the esplanade were at the esplanade early to set up thing. we brought along tables for sale of t-shirts and as ‘secretariat’ where a registration book is availble and to put our candles and the flyers. yes, we [...]

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our MC was arrested

our MC, paula of masterwordsmith-unplugged blog was arrested at the anti-ISA candlelight vigil last night. went to the police station at 9.30pm. 6 of us organisers, several from the press (chinese press mostly and malaysiakini’s athi) and several attendees of the vigil – in total about 20 (including 2 priests) were at the police station [...]

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candlelight protest and the government

here is a good article by anil netto at IPS. i first saw it in malaysiakini (thus the verbatim post i copied below will be from malaysiakini). while we are at candlelight protests, i wish to remind all of you of the candlelight protest in penang today.ANTI-ISA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN PENANGdate:  15 nov. (saturday)time:  8.00pmplace:  [...]

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