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Empat setengah tahun lepas pada 13 Mei 2018, saya telah memimpin sekumpulan aktivis untuk memprotes tindakan kerajaan baharu PH di Johor, empat hari selepas mereka mendapat hak untuk membentuk kerajaan pada PRU14. Kami membantah kerajaan PH Johor di atas dua perkara. Pertama, almarhum Osman Sapian, Menteri Besar ketika itu memberitahu media bahawa beliau tidak mahu […]
November 30, 2022
WITHOUT PRINCIPLES WE ARE ALREADY LOST By Thomas Fann (30.11.2022) Just over four and a half years ago on 13 May 2018, I led a small group of activists to hold a protest against the newly minted PH government in Johor, just 4 days after they won the right to form the Johor government in […]
March 14, 2020
Drama politik yang terdedah pada 23 Februari 2020 bermula dengan Langkah Sheraton telah menyaksikan kejatuhan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan (PH) yang dipilih kurang daripada dua tahun lepas pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14. Rakyat Malaysia hanya mampu lihat dengan perasaan seram, marah dan tidak berdaya apabila mandat yang diberikan kepada PH telah dijungkir-balik oleh Ahli Parlimen(AP) daripada […]
January 2, 2019
December 2, 2018
The political mega-quake that hit Malaysia on 9 May and which ended the 61-year rule of the dominant National Front (Barisan Nasional, BN) coalition was a scenario many in civil society were unprepared for. In the decades of struggle against the hegemonic BN, where many civil society organisations (CSOs) and the opposition shared the same […]
October 24, 2015
Prime Minister Najib’s disablement of investigations into the 1MDB scandal and the silencing of critics has all but reinforced public perception that the allegations of corruption made by the Wall Street Journal, Sarawak Report, Tun Mahathir and the opposition are true. The impact on the country is far-reaching, destroying the confidence of both local and […]
October 18, 2015
Last week I offered 5 reasons why racism is not cool, that it’s irrational, unscientific, prideful, unjust and emotional. It should be regarded as a very negative trait in any society and yet some racists are worshipped as heroes. This week, we want to look at another 5 reasons why we should avoid racism like […]
September 19, 2015
After the first Bersih rally that ended peacefully, with a record estimated number of participants of 500,000 over the 34 hours period, the UMNO-owned newspaper of Mingguan Malaysia and Utusan Malaysia, as expected, went on to rubbish Bersih 4. The focus of these newspapers, this time, was on the racial profile of the majority of […]
September 14, 2015
At the stroke of midnight on the 30th of August, 2015, when the countdown to Merdeka Day had ended, the Negaraku was sung and shouts of ‘Merdeka’ rang throughout the areas around the Dataran Merdeka, the crowd dispersed quietly without much fanfare, thus ending the largest and longest protest ever in our nation’s history peacefully. […]
September 3, 2015
If bets were taken on the eve of Bersih 4 that it would end the way it did, the momentous success that it is, you would probably be given very long odds that it would be a peaceful rally with the biggest ever crowd in Malaysian history. You’d be a very rich man by now. […]
Towards A New Malaysia 
November 30, 2022
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