The following report (see below) was prepared by the team that leafletted the LRT stations on Sunday morning.

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We are now planning to leaflet at Puduraya on Saturday. As it is a long weekend, there will be many people at the bus station leaving KL. This is a chance to get info to go out of the Klang Valley.

Depending on how many people we can mobilise, we can be there for most of the day as buses will be leaving and arriving all day. In addition, we can try for shopping centres outside of KL.

Meeting tonight at the Hunger Strike Centre, 8.30pm. Please come so we can work out how each of us can help out in the weekend activity.

Also, please try and contact friends re this Saturday and ask if they would be able to volunteer for a few hours helping out. Contact person is Tashia (26913292 w, 0126555737)

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Report of Leafleting Exercise, Sunday,27th of May 2001

It was a simple exercise, but with a very clear purpose - to reach out to those who know nothing of the ISA and those who know a little something but haven't discovered what they can do about it.

The exercise combined both leafletting and riding the LRT wearing ISA badges (we couldn't get any t-shirts). It was a simple but effective gesture as it brought the issue down to people's everyday lives. In the LRT, there were a lot of strained looking faces as they noticed our badges - one could see that their otherwise blissful Sunday outing was shaken a little with a reminder of the existence of this draconian law.

Six of us gathered at the Central Market LRT station and split into 2 groups. One group stayed back at the station to leaflet and reported that although they were asked not to leaflet on the station premises, they were not harassed about leafletting just outside. This group encountered a very high volume of people and was therefore not able to interact much.

They did however receive some feedback requesting for the leaflets to be in other languages. The second group took the LRT to KL Sentral station. The interchange between the LRT and commuter trains provided a good opportunity for leafletting and talking to people waiting for their trains. Although within the premises of the station, this group did not encounter any problems.

For one member of this group, this was her first time leafletting or doing anything close to activism work. Although in principle totally against the ISA, she found it hard, whatever her reason, to bring herself to participate in any of the bigger events where she felt both intimidated and afraid of ramifications. It took a lot for her to overcome the "fear" of expressing her opinion in public but this exercise definitely provided her with an outlet.