Update: Penang Protest Oil Hikes Ceramah

Did not see any reports about the ceramah, not even Malaysiakini.

The first time, former opposition is allow to use the city stadium for its ceramah. What a differents with Pakatan Rakyat running the state now.

The actual ceramah starts at 9:30pm but I was there around 7pm. This ceramah was actually organised by PKR. No police around, no crowd rushing in (a vast different from the historic election campaign held at Han Chiang High School with over 30 thousand people).

The crowd was still small, about 1000, at 8pm. I was wondering why the low turn out. Then I saw the schedule on the screen. The actual ceramah will only start at 9:30pm, so the information provided earlier was not accurate.

By 9pm the crowd had grown to about 3000 with more people trickling in. The speakers comprising of Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Mohd Sabu (Haji Awang was not able to attend) arrive at around 9:20pm.

Mohd Sabu was the first speaker and he gave a very impressive speech followed by Lim Kit Siang, both stressing about the oil price increased. Anwar Ibrahim was the third speaker and with his usual self start his fiery speech. The crowd comprises almost equal presentation of the races gave their approval with claps and shouting of reformasi.

I had to leave half way through Anwar Ibrahim speech due to another appointment. Before leaving, I estimated the crowd at around 8000.

Update : Malaysiakini had posted the report at Malaysiakini.com. You may have to register in order to read the full report.