For pricing, size and ordering details, click HERE & HERE
Posted in: People Power
‘We will stand with RPK’ T-shirts
Posted on September 27, 2008
- About me and this blog
- Email me
- Petition to the Agung to restore the judiciary to the rakyat
- Letters to MPs directing a vote to oppose the Rashid bill
- Hartal : Boycott the lying newspapers!
- ‘Boycott the Newspapers’ T-shirts
- ‘Boycott the Newspapers!’ Online Petition
- The People’s Voice & The People’s Declaration
- PJ Selatanites support for Toni Kasim’s candidacy
- MSM Boycott : Your letters to advertisers
- Readers letters to the Selangor exco on the PKNS GM issue
- ISA : Frequently Asked Questions
- Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia T-shirt
- A Shooting Star
- The ABU War Fund
- Tabung SAMM
- ABU T-shirts & Merchandise
The People's Parliament 
mwrmmg
September 27, 2008
So when exactly Anwar will become PM so RPK can be set free???
Did RPK miscalculated Sept 16? Or did Anwar betrayed RPK, the latter taking all risk, all the way, thinking he could get away with Anwar as PM?
My take, if Anwar can’t deliver 16 Sept, as he confidently claimed prior to that, don’t think he will ever. Any effort on RPK is plain futile. Poor guy. Is he blaming Anwar??
Why Cares
September 27, 2008
“free RPK.
NO TO ISA ”
is the best design T-shirt.
My salute to all peace loving Peacemakers.
ian
September 27, 2008
Will wear this with pride!
Happy Birthday RPK, we are with you.
http://iwfrpk.blogspot.com/
Helen Ang
September 27, 2008
HARTAL ISA (PART 1): THE PEOPLE’S PARL CONSTITUENCY _____________________________________________
Haris,
Pls note my reservations on the proposed one-day Hartal.
That Ori-Recipe one in 1947 which brought work to a standstill occurred when KL certainly had a whole lot less people than today. And those possibly taking up PP’s call for boycott will likely be concentrated in Klang Valley, i.e. Netizens.
Even granting an overly optimistic figure, say take-up of 32,000 (number of signatures to RPK petition currently), what would be the visible impact of these supportive people staying away from work or staying home when we’re talking about a metropolitan area housing 5 million? And after that, how do we measure to what end, and with what result, the single day achieved?
The Hartal depicted in Fahmi’s video was 60 years ago: When shops were shuttered and traffic deserted the streets, it was visually dramatic. But today? The other time Hartal was tried in Penang in 1967, it brought about both a racial incident as well as the authorities clamping down.
The constituency you’re appealing to resides in the Internet. If you addressed instead the bus drivers, taxi drivers, public transport drivers like those manning the LRT and monorail, it’d at least be a different story. But our cyber advocacy at the moment is addressing the middle-class reading in English, and thus Hartal in this light of national ‘stoppage’ is a non-starter! Think … We haven’t even seen a major labour strike in years, in decades.
Now, to re-assess the probability of middle-class participation. The Raya Open house ‘flash mob’ is a good idea. Small-scale unlike an ambitious big event – one for the mavericks and may get attention.
What about the larger swathe of couch potatoes? A common thread of scepticism goes, as one example: “What do you plan to achieve with the petition? Even if you got 50k signatures, do you think the PM will care? Be realistic lah, you need to be more objective. Do you think by sitting by the computer and getting people to sign petition will help get RPK released?”
Thank you ‘Bonjol’, the commentator, for your pertinent pragmatism.
Agree that Dollah, whom the petition was originally addressed to, won’t care nuts (a reason I dislike the earnest ‘Open Letter’ some M’sian journalists are wont to pen to the PM). How about re-orientating our understanding of the petition then as a ‘Power to the People’ statement? Can?
Helen Ang
September 27, 2008
HARTAL ISA (PART 2): RPK AS THE CATALYST
_________________________________________
Another comment I’d like to highlight worth reading in the ‘Happy Birthday, RPK?’ post is by ‘SocratesI’ on Sept 26 at 11:20pm.
“But to get these same people to come out with their names and IC numbers, or even their names and email addresses, to back these most worthy petitions was probably too much to expect.”
Well, yeah. Isn’t it true that People’s Parl has a readership that in large part chooses to be anonymous and pseudonymous?
‘SocratesI’ continues: “We have to live with this Malaysian psyche, like it or not, though the younger generation has shown much more guts, and become more vocal in Malaysian society. The future looks much brighter with the enlightened youth of today, and much of the thanks have to go to Raja Petra, and people like him, who have stood Unwaveringly for their principles and the TRUTH, to enlighten all Malaysians and foreigners to what is actually happening in Malaysia.”
Adding to Socrates, consider if what is actually happening in Malaysia is told by MSM. Therefore, I’m pressed to reiterate the need for Hartal MSM because as others have validly pointed out in these Hartal ISA threads: What is our reach and how far will people commit?
Raja Petra has opened the door a crack to allowing M’sians an airing where the thinking is outside of the mainstream media conditioning. So, just as an academic yardstick, how many are prepared to reveal their names (no need IC No.) in protesting RPK’s detention and opposing the ISA law? Isn’t the ISA really an issue about the average M’sian’s exaggerated sense of ‘Fear’?
My further reflection on the M’sian mindset; Haris, you wrote: “On 3rd August, notwithstanding the disapproval of most of you, I joined Sheih aka Kickdefella and Zorro in rendering our national flag in distress mode on this blog.”
You were confronted by a mentality that is quick to disapprove but adopts for itself inertia. And a PM who declared that turning the flag upside down is ‘evil’.
Personally, Haris, the flag flown in whatever direction does not grab me, but back when you inverted it, I gave you my lonely support to exercise your privilege of offending. Before we even venture into talking about Hartal big time, let me just ask this … do the vast majority of M’sians have it in them to be subversive?
Don’t we embrace a culture of quiescence? RPK’s biggest contribution is to chip away at the apathy and giving the country an alternative reading diet. MSM has for too long provided their full, blind backing to the pro-establishment hegemony. I would use the terms ‘brainwash’ and ‘indoctrinate’.
Therefore in conclusion, I repeat that if we’re going to do any sort of Hartal ISA, one battlefront is tackling the forces – MSM definitely included – that have ‘halalkan’ the passive acquiescence and general indifference to the ISA all this while.
Chong Yoke Len
September 27, 2008
Off the record. Just an enquiry.
When I clicked, I was directed to M2day. There was no form for an order.
Pse direct me to the proper procedure. Wld like to have 2 XL (orange & black “I am with RPK”), 1 L (orange), 2 M (red & orange), 1 M (black “I am with RPK”).
Thank you.
Yoke Len
fergie
September 27, 2008
Already placed my orders early this morning. Am awaiting instructions on payment via email. Can’t wait to get the Ts.
charis14
September 27, 2008
Selling to individuals is slow and takes too much hassle. Also, there is uncertainty about giving personal info and making payments.
Suggestion : Get PR politicians to invest in the T-shirts. Place some in their service centre for sales. Bring the bulk with them for sale at all functions involving the public.
What to do with the balance? Give to their members or those who cannot afford to buy BUT will wear them out. The ultimate purpose is to have high publicity.
Media Guru
September 27, 2008
There are too many issues marring the big picture. Let’s be strategically single minded on the message that we the Citizens & Pendatangs want to send to the government of the day. Let’s rally the public on 2 campaigns:
1. ISA is evil. ABOLISH IT
2. ABU as a teaser..
to mean Anything But Umno…Asal bukan UMNO
(UMNO=corruption=root of evil)
Keep it simple:
Design & publicise a typeface or logo for all to use
Encourage the public to show support with T shirts, Graffitti, Banners and email sign off.
The campaign should not be hitched to personalities of the day.There may be other people like me who are not fans of RPK or Anwar but would support the 2 campaigns
shafik
September 28, 2008
can’t it be like “free ISA detainees”?hey,it just ain’t bout RPK.don’t forget the others.
eugene
September 28, 2008
Well I kind of agree with Charis14 recarding the sale of Free RPK t shirt. Use PR service centers nations wide as sales centers. Any PAS, DAP & PKR rep out there would like to help on this ???
anna brella
September 28, 2008
Good, well-designed t-shirts.
But sorry, this fight by the People against the State/ISA is not really about any one person or group per se, is it?
Isn’t it more about a common cause that is important to all – one’s inalienable right to enjoy one’s fundamental human rights of freedom and liberty?
The power and right to act, think and speak freely without fear of oppression or imprisonment by the State?
And as enshrined in and guaranteed by the Malaysian Constitution?
So, is it possible to write the names of all the other sixty-three ISA detainees on the spare spaces around the main logos on the t-shirts?
You can then rightly say “I am with RPK and with ALL ISA detainees because when you oppress and imprison them with it, you also oppress and imprison ME”.
Although you are defintely brave going to those open houses (because it would stick in my craw to do so I am afraid) maybe you can go on behalf of those oppressed and imprisoned and give some of those t-shirts to the hosts and their guests as a solemn Raya gift from each of the absent ISA detainees.
If you’re lucky, maybe someone at one of those open houses will choke on one!
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
Steve Ong
September 29, 2008
I have alraedy ordered the tee-shirts and still waiting for an email reply….
gaayethri
October 14, 2008
I have already emailed Mr. Lawrence for the t-shirts, hopefully he gets back to me soon,Yep, well said annabrella,”imagine power to the people. We will wear the t-shirt with pride.
gaayethri
October 14, 2008
I have already emailed Mr. Lawrence for the t-shirts, hopefully he gets back to me soon,Yep, well said annabrella,”imagine power to the people”. We will wear the t-shirt with pride.