Malaysia

Conservationists arrested protesting logging in Tasmania and Sarawak by Malaysian Company Ta Ann

takver — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:59:55 +0000

Conservationists have today participated in a protest on Hobart's wharf, where a vessel is being loaded for the Malaysian logging company Ta Ann. The protest highlights the ongoing loss of high conservation value temperate forests in Tasmania and the rapacious logging of tropical rainforests of Borneo and destructon of habitat for Orangutan and dispossession of the indigenous Penan people from their ancestral forests and lands.

"Four conservationists have attached themselves to the vessel, we are participating in today's non violent protest to highlight the ongoing loss of high conservation value forests," Huon Valley Environment Centre's Jenny Weber said.

Youtube video | Photos of the action

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Australian solidarity protests for Bersih democracy movement in Malaysia

Flowerpower — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:30:26 +0000

While "thousands and thousands" marched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today (July 9th) for democracy (braving police roadblocks, hundreds of arrests, water cannon, teargas, etc), in Australia some 750 Malaysian rallied in Melbourne, 300 in Sydney, 200 in Perth, 150 in Adelaide, 40 in Canberra and 100 in Brisbane.

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Urgent Appeal: Crackdown on Malaysian Socialists

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:30:03 +0000

PLM Calls For The Release of 30 Activist Held In Malaysia

Manila -- Around 70 members of Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses - PLM) held a brief picket in front of the Malaysian Embassy this morning to protest the arrests and detention of 30 activists belonging to the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

Sonny Melencio, chairperson of PLM, submitted a letter to a representative of the Malaysian Embassy expressing the PLM’s outrage and condemnation to the ongoing crackdown against Malaysian socialists.

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Refugee groups oppose Gillard’s offshore ‘solutions’ in Malaysia and PNG

Anonymous — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:44:01 +0000

Refugee Action Coalition media release detailing immediate concerns with MALAYSIAN SOLUTION.

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Julia Gillard's announcement of a deal to send asylum seekers attempting to arrive in Australia by boat to Malaysia is just the latest chapter in Australia's attempts to dodge its international obligations as a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, according to the Refugee Action Coalition.

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Help Malaysia's Penan jungle people to survive

Diet Simon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:00:11 +0000

By Rainforest Rescue

Hundreds of Penan are demonstrating with blowpipes in the Malaysian rain forest. No one gets past the road blockades of the Aborigines in the jungle of Sarawak, not even the police.

Instead of upholding the rule of law, police are doing the bidding of corrupt politicians and unscrupulous business people. They have seized the land of the Penan to turn it into monocultural oil palm plantations after razing the tropical timber.

Police had to turn back to fetch reinforcements. The Penan now fear police excesses.

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