Over 2,000 people turn up at Hong Lim Park over Maju Forest & Gillman Barracks plans
Braving the heat for a cause.
On August 16, over 2,000 individuals gathered at Hong Lim Park to attend the Maju Rally, organised by SG Climate Rally in response to proposed housing plans at Gillman Barracks and Sunset Way sites. The rally featured music, poetry, and speeches, and outlined three key demands: preserving nature areas, giving people a say in decisions, and redefining progress for all.
Organisers distributed 1,000 programme booklets within two hours of the event's start and handed out more than 250 postcards, encouraging attendees to share their thoughts with their MPs. Politicians from the Workers Party, Singapore Democratic Party, and Progress Singapore Party, as well as former Nominated MP Anthea Ong, participated in the rally.
The rally's primary focus was to protect nature parks from being treated as land banks and to upgrade at least 10 biodiversity-rich nature sites, such as Clementi-Maju and Alexandra Woodlands, to nature parks. The group also called for mandatory environmental impact assessments before any development plans are put into action and urged the government to reevaluate its approach to progress, prioritising the preservation of green spaces.
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