Time To Be Counted: Have Your Say

A petition has been launched by the Fiji Democracy Movement team.

This online petition is your pledge to the key government leaders of the Pacific including Australia and NZ, that you disagree with the current military dictatorship.

This petition can be used by all - to lobby all government bodies within the Pacific Region including Australia and NZ and will be a shared document for those wishing to use it for such purposes.

Have Your Say:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/returnfiji2elections/

Same Old, Same Old

Even when our blogging pauses momentarily, the bullshit and the pretense from the illegal military regime does not.

Naval officer turned overnight fisheries specialist and now acting boot-licker in chief to Bainimarama, Commander Viliame Naupoto, now chairs the Fiji Investment Board after the previous military appointed management "could not get along".

The military appointed board of the superannuation arm, FNPF, has also undergone a board appointment overhaul with many of the FLP stalwarts being let out to pasture. It will be interesting to see whether this FLP clean-out from their boards are translated across all statutory entities.

The military cabinet also recently passed some illegal changes to board remuneration and benefits.

One commercial bank has stated its intent to pull its business out of Coup x 5 land.

And just when everything about Bainimarama's ideals for the future aka New Legal Order, A New Day, Clean Up, Race-Free etc etc -- he announces the soon to be unveiled an ADDITIONAL roadmap focussing on Fiji’s “strategic framework for change”.

Unlike Barack Obama, while Bainimarama continues to hurl out every "change related" adjective or noun possible, it has thus far proven to be empty, expensive rhetoric simply because the military regime's legal foundations are all wrong.

Pension Funds to be Slashed

While our superannuation entity has the gall to re-brand and do totally unnecessary public relations activities (it is the workers as primary stakeholders that they have to impress at the end of the day), the treasonous PM has the CHEEK to announce that our retirement funds - yours, mine and everyone else's - will be slashed.

Bainimarama points to a World Bank review as justification. The reality is the military appointed Board and CEO have stuffed up big time in their decisions on investments and we have to pay for it. Again.

Global Liberty-Loving Fijians "Bind Mai"

Expatriate Fijians to expand anti interim government activities
Updated Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:37pm AEST

Australia's Fijian community plans to take its campaign against the military regime to other parts of the world. The Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement is hoping to set up similar chapters in England, and enlist the backing of their compatriots in the US. The group also plans to increase the pressure on Fijian citizens living in New Zealand, who have accepted positions back home. The President of the Sydney chapter, Peter Waqatairewa, told Michael Cavanagh in Canberra the campaign will also be taken to the United Nations.

Listen to the radio interview here.