October 4, 2011
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Protect Malaysia from Red Earth Radioactive Waste
by Hawkeye
A bloc of environmental activists, together with Clement Chin (right) as well as electoral remodel organisation Bersih, have banded
together to disciple for tolerable development. They have been organising a rally in Kuantan, set for Saturday (October 9).
Perhimpunan Hijau 109 or a Green Assembly, is led by a internal activist organisation protesting against a Lynas singular earth refinery in Gebeng, not distant from Kuantan.
The inhabitant steering committee of a event, which is done up of 10 NGOs, expects a little 10,000 people to spin up, what with a betrothed attendance of renouned Bersih arch Ambiga Sreenevasan.
Speaking to reporters in a Parliament lobby today, a committee's representative, Bang Seet Ping, pronounced a eventuality aims to inspire a people to take responsibility for their future.
"I am only an typical person. we wish to strengthen my home, my village as well as my children. There have been most others who share my sentiments as well as aspirations, who wish a improved destiny for their children," pronounced Bang, a mother of two.
"Many of a lawmakers have been not environmentally literate. we hope they hear us loud as well as clear.
Environmental issues contingency be a key issue which voters take into care in a subsequent ubiquitous election," Bang said.
The eventuality will flog off with a taking flight of a object during Pantai Balok. An publicity of a Earth Charter a stipulation of elemental reliable principles for tolerable growth will be made.
The design of a event, pronounced Bang, is to propel "a change in a way of life, change in how multitude works, how decisions have been made, as well as how businesses have been conducted".
Also lending their support to a Green Assembly, have been a residents of Kampung Bukit Koman in Raub, who have been fighting to stop a circuitously gold mining operation which is pronounced to be linked to cyanide poisoning.
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