Vidoe of Mak Bedah (2)

Mak Bedah日记（四）Sungai Siput 2/3/2008

新闻报导

国大党主席三美威鲁今早在和丰举行新闻发布会，数名闻风而至的女性候选人行动组织（WCI）代表要求进入会场与他对话，不但遭到三美咆哮拒绝，更被国大党党员粗暴赶出门外。

大约20名性別平等联合行动组织（JAG）代表，今早到和丰的也廊市场（Jalong Market）举行新闻发布会，并邀请和丰国会议席的3名候选人出席对话。女性候选人行动组织是性別平等联合行动组织的成员之一。

今早应邀而到的只有社会主义党候选人贾亚古玛迪瓦拉医生（Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj）。和丰国会议席共有3名候选人，除了三美威鲁和以公正党旗帜上阵的贾亚古玛之外,尚有一名独立人士诺丽占翁加入战围。

冲突中海报卡片遭国大党破坏当性別平等联合行动组织组织获悉三美威鲁将在附近的另一个地点举行新闻发布会时，女性候选人行动组织决定派出3名代表前往三美威鲁的新闻发布会。这3名“不速之客”抵达国大党的会场时，遭到该党的粗暴对待。

她们手持海报和卡片要求国阵革除性别歧视的国会议员，与等待三美威鲁抵达会场的国大党党员起了冲突。结果，这群女权组织成员的卡片与海报遭到对方破坏，更被粗鲁地赶出门外。

女性候选人行动组织代表美拉珊蔓特（Meera Samanther）不满的表示，“我们是马来西亚国民，我们要见我们的国会议员，我们要问他一些关于性别平等的课题。这样都不行？”【请点击观看短片】

三美：为何不去关心单亲妈妈？在双方纠缠之际，三美威鲁抵达会场，这名最近所到之处皆遭到印裔社群抗议围堵的国大党主席，拒绝会见这群女权组织代表，并提高声量的表示，“我不要见到她们”。

最终，国大党党员把这3名女权组织代表赶出会场，并关上大门拒绝让她们进入。在无可奈何之下，无法见到三美威鲁的她们只好无奈的离开。

三美威鲁较后在新闻发布会上，批评这群女权组织不去关心其他重要课题，例如单亲妈妈问题，却变成遭其他人利用的政治工具。

批国阵议员发表歧视女性言论另一边厢，性別平等联合行动组织在新闻发布会上表示，该组织只是希望教育选民关于性别平等的课题。“我们监督国会会议已经有10年，对于一些国会议员如京那巴当岸、日莱和四加亭国会议员所发表的性别歧视言论感到非常失望。”该组织也促请选民别投选具有性别歧视的候选人，“我们觉得，政党并没有做出正确的决定，因此我们希望选民能够代他们做决定”。

唯一“赏脸”出席对话会的候选人贾亚古玛则表示，如果选民对于性别课题拥有一定觉醒的话，那么三美威鲁将不会连任8届国会议员。

他指出，和丰选区女性选民所面对的最大问题，就是单亲妈妈的福利，其中一些人每天只赚取区区18令吉，同时当地也缺乏看护儿童的服务，进而引起一些社会问题。

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/79000
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/79004

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后续 --- 太累了。。

不过，我到现在还很生气 -- 很生气。

Mak Bedah日记（二）SS2 market 26/2/2008

26/2/2008第一场，我们到了ss2的夜市，这的国会选区是八打灵北区。

很热闹 -- 我们的日记

Mak Bedah spawns a mob in Petaling Jaya
26 February 2008
Report from a Bedah researcher

Overnight sensation Mak Bedah has confessed feeling “shocked…but flattered” at the emergence of a Mak Bedah mob that was spotted in SS2 last night. The small but visible mob of five selendang-clad women, all calling themselves Mak Bedah, drew stares and applause when they started asking candidates from both ruling and opposition parties their stand on human rights. Three of the Mak Bedahs spoke fluent Chinese and captivated a crowd of university students, who took notes and pictures of the mob.

“I had no idea my message would become so fofular,” confessed the real Mak Bedah. Mak Bedah first made her appearance on nomination day on the grounds of the MBPJ, pushing a shopping trolley and carrying a shopping list of various human rights demands from the candidates for the 12th General Elections. Clad in a floral baju kurung, purple selendang and sunglasses to overcome her astigmatism, Mak Bedah graced the pages of several mainstream newspapers the very next day, with her list of brave demands.

“But this mob of women going around, they all ni kira my peminat ke?” asked Mak Bedah coyly to this reporter.

Last night, the Mak Bedah mob went to a DAP forum, and managed to speak to the DAP candidate for the PJ Utara Parliamentary seat, Tony Pua. Tony was undoubtedly excited to be surrounded by the five women, but stuck to principles in his conversation and immediately endorsed Mak Bedah’s shopping list, which is a summary of the manifesto of the Women’s Candidacy Initiative.

However, when the Mak Bedah mob attempted to speak to the BN Parliamentary candidate for PJ Selatan, Donald Lim, they were stopped by a group of men, who later confessed to being plainclothes policemen. When the five Mak Bedahs invited the gentlemen to browse WCI’s website, one of the men confessed to not having an internet connection.

When Donald Lim finally arrived, the five Mak Bedahs made an attempt to approach him but were immediately told by Donald to shut up. The tallest of the Mak Bedahs then told him that even though their purple selendangs were a bit over-the-top, they were still ordinary women voters who wanted to find out what he stood for, and if he was going to silence them how could he expect to gain their votes?

Evidently not caring too much about being snubbed by Donald Lim, the Mak Bedahs then approached Chew Mei Fun, the BN Parliamentary candidate for PJ Utara. Chew smiled and invited them to have a private chat with her. She assured the Mak Bedahs that even as a BN MP, she had always spoken out against sexist MPs in Parliament. Again, the most vertically privileged Mak Bedah pointed out to Chew that what was really important now is Chew’s commitment to take even sterner action against sexist leaders in the future.

Chew remained friendly and non-committal but promised to look through WCI’s demands first. At this point in time, Donald Lim decided to approach the Mak Bedah mob again and apologized for his brusque manner before. By this time, the Mak Bedahs were already excited by the enthusiasm shown by Tony Pua and flocked to his ceramah instead.

Unable to restrain themselves, the five Mak Bedahs interrupted Tony’s speech with five questions.

“Will you stand up against sexist MPs, whether BN or Opposition?”
Tony replied, “Yes, I will ask them to resign!” and the crowd cheered.

“Would you vote against privatization of health and education?”
Again Tony replied, “Yes!” and the crowd clapped their hands sore.

“Would you push for 30% of women's participation in Parliament?”
Tony hardly even blinked and said, “Yes.”

“Would you push for local council elections?”
“Yes.”

“Would you endorse WCI manifesto?”
Tony, realizing he had to expand his vocabulary, said, “100%!” and the crowd roared and clapped.

And then of course, the tallest of the Mak Bedahs just had to slip in a final comment.
“If you are voted in, WCI and Mak Bedah will monitor that you deliver and hold you accountable to what you have promised.”

To which Tony replied warmly, “Please do that!”

The Mak Bedah mob then distributed all their leaflets to the public and dispersed.

“Baguslah kalau gitu,” quipped the real Mak Bedah upon learning of this event. “I just want more men and women to approach their candidates and very selamba ask what their vision is for our country. I want my human rights, I want more women as leaders, and I want cheaper petrol and shoes.”

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当天，我们其实很幸运，因为我们同一个时间见到两位候选人。哦，不是三位，包括我们的林祥才大哥。

最爽的是和选民的谈话 -- 当然咯。很多人对我们很好奇咯 ---

我们首先到了Tony Puah的讲座，我们和他私下见了面。我们的代表问了他几个问题，他都给予更定的答案。他以公开向他的支持者表示支持我们的宣言。

后来，我们来了周美芬的讲座。当时，林祥才也在现场。他表示他不会于我们对话，还和我们的代表起了少许争执。

周美芬给予我们的答案都很“官方”，有些问题她没有给予正面的答案。当我们问她是否支持我们的宣言的时候，她表示需要时间好好的研究。

我和选民聊天的时候，发现大部分的选民都已经决定将票投给谁了。有一些妇女告诉我“你知道吗？他们应该派一位女候选人来打周美芬，这样他们赢的机会更大”。有一些告诉我，周美芬很好，但是这次他们还是决定投反对党。

有句话，很想与想蝉联的朋友说“我们可以让你进入国/州议会，我们亦可以将你赶出去！”

一些新闻的报导（在网上，只能找到这则新闻噢）

女候選人前進陣線吁摒棄“好色國議員”


女候選人前進陣線緊捉著發表歧視女性言論的課題，呼吁選民摒棄“月漏論”、“隧道論”的“好色國會議員”，利用選票將他們轟出國會。

該陣線強調須有足夠的女代議士，才能確保女性不會再繼續受到歧視，因此該陣線呼吁選民應善用選票落實民主精神，打造公平社會，讓每一名女性都不再受到不公正的歧視，任由不負責任者發表有辱女性尊嚴的言論。

此外，該陣線也提出10項期望，反映民間對未來政府的心聲。一些期望涵括近來的時事課題，呼吁政府不再歧視任何族群、讓各民族都享有真正的民主與人權。

http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/55479?tid=1

Video of Mak Bedah : 妇女候选人运动

一首关于《Mak Bedah》的歌，里面的影片是我们在提名日当天的活动剪辑。

Mak Bedah日记（一）提名日

妇女候选人运动在提名当天，一群50人的义工浩浩荡荡的到了八打灵南区的提名日现场，与我们的icon 《Mak Bedah》一同宣传我们的活动。

谁是《Mak Bedah》？她是一位很尊敬Tony Kassim的妇女，她相信妇女候选人运动的10大宣言，希望有一名候选人，可以捍卫妇女、人民的权利。因此，她知道Tony Kassim不参选，她很失望，因此她希望能做一些事情。


因此，在这13竞选期间，Mak Bedah 会到处去Shopping，你们会问，Shop for what?? Of course, "Shopping for a REAL cendidate" lah.

我们从Assunta走到MPBJ，去找我们心目中真正的候选人。

请观赏妇女候选人在当天的一段活动影片。

8.10am
我们从Empower出发（在Assunta医院附近）
沿途上，我们派传单、喊口号
我们的口号《2,4,6,8 Shopping for a Candidate;A,B,C,D Justice & Equality》

8.15am
我们遇到几个路障，但是他们没有阻止我们前进

8.20am
我们到了提名现场，我们一路喊口号，一路分发传单

8.30am 我们遇到一些记者，接受了他们的访问
他们很好奇，我们到底要做什么，可能我们有秘密候选人？？

8.40am
我们尝试要进国阵的提名现场，但是警察叫我们到另一边

8.45am
我们遇到公正党的国会候选人，我们的代表问了他一些问题，包括他是否会支持我们的10项宣言
8.50am
我们在state的街道，绕了一圈，我们成功的吸引了很多观众

9.05am
我们到了提名现场，我们发现我们被引导到反对阵营去了。
我们受到热烈的欢迎。
但是其实我们不想别表达我们倾向那一个阵营，因为同样的问题我们都会问各候选人。重要的是我们要Shopping for a REAL candidate
可是，很无奈。你必须选择你的立场，表达你的立场。否则，你请离开（因为我们没有地方可以站）

9.45am
我们到附近的Mamak Stall早餐。

10.15am
我们3人尝试进入国阵的阵营，要求与国阵的候选人见面。
我们遇到林祥才的新闻秘书，我们要求与他对话。但是他的新闻秘书表示，林很忙啦，可能没有时间啦。要我们留下电话，说会联络我们。还告诉我们可以出席他第二天召开的记者招待会噢。 奇怪，我们的人都在这里了，为什么还要等明天？等他顺利完成提名不就可以了吗？我想他怕我们啦。

10.30am
我们再度回到提名现场，等待。
当时出现了一些状况，他们宣布Bukit Gasing DAP的候选人Edward Lee的提名表格出现了一些问题。
气氛变得很紧张，幸好后来没有事了。

11.30am
候选人出来了，我们的代表和Edward Lee对话，反应良好。

11.50am
我们再度尝试与国阵的候选人对话，但是被拒绝。

12.10noon
活动结束，散会回家