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Bersih

Maria Chin Abdullah: It’s not about race anymore

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | October 24, 2011 2 Comments

IT is perhaps destiny that Maria Chin Abdullah ended up being one of the steering committee members for Bersih 2.0, the civil society movement calling for free and fair elections in Malaysia. One of her earliest memories is of independent Malaya’s first general election in 1959 when she was just three. Maria remembers being with […]

Theories of Bersih 2.0

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 25, 2011 9 Comments

The Bersih 2.0 9 July 2011 march drew thousands of Malaysians onto Kuala Lumpur’s streets to call for clean and fair elections. But according to Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders, the government-controlled press and the authorities, that’s not what the march was really about. In the aftermath of the Bersih march, The Nut Graph summarises some of the more popular theories by Bersih’s detractors of why it actually organised the march.

BN vs Bersih: Comparing 2007 and 2011

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 9, 2011 Leave a Comment

IS Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak a prime minister of reform as he’s been portrayed to be? Is he more respectful of human rights and dissenting views compared to his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi? Is he less or more prone to strong-arm tactics? A comparison of how the government treated Bersih in 2007 and how it is treating Bersih 2.0 in 2011 gives Malaysians and the world an indication of whether things have gotten better under Najib or much worse.

Nasihat tentang Bersih

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 9, 2011 Leave a Comment

Bersih? Kotor? Haram? Untuk yang pening, marah, atau kompius, atau kesemuanya, ikutilah nasihat terbaru daripada kolumnis pujaan ramai, Kak Nora:   Assalamualaikum wahai Kak Nora yang budiman, Diharapkan Kak Nora berada dalam keadaan sihat dan awesome. Kak, lets me just cuts to the chases and story you my problem, ok? Mesti akak tahu tentang kontroversi […]

Bersih: Whom does media serve?

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 9, 2011 24 Comments

IN 2001, after three years of investigations and interviewing hundreds of journalists, leading media practitioners Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel wrote The Elements of Journalism, now a reference point for what is good journalism. One of Kovach and Rosenstiel’s principles was that a journalist’s first loyalty is to citizens. Not its owners, advertisers or even […]

Bersih 2.0: “Illegal”, chaos-causing “communists”?

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 4, 2011 11 Comments

Waging war against the king. In cahoots with foreign conspirators. Possible communists. Planning to overthrow the government. Illegal T-shirts. Bersih 2.0 seems to embody many evils to the authorities, who have arrested more than 100 in attempts to stop Bersih’s 9 July 2011 march. But have the authorities gone overboard in demonising the rally? What about Malaysians’ constitutional right to freedom of expression and right to peaceable assembly?

Bersih: It’s not about black or white

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 4, 2011 3 Comments

Two T-shirts painted on a fence: one yellow (right), the other blue

TO go yellow or not to go yellow? This seems to be the question among Malaysians these days. In cyberspace, Malaysians of all backgrounds are writing, forwarding and sharing comments and articles about the planned 9 July Bersih 2.0 march. But what exactly are people saying about the ideas and principles behind the march itself? […]

The importance of Bersih

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | November 8, 2010 5 Comments

IT feels like only yesterday but it’s been three years this week since the historic Bersih rally of 10 Nov 2007 that demanded for free and fair elections. For certain, that 40,000 strong rally, together with the subsequent Hindraf demonstration in Kuala Lumpur, was partly responsible for the political tsunami of the 2008 general election. […]

In independence we trust

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | February 1, 2010 1 Comment

Book on Muslim women no longer banned THE High Court has been demonstrating their ability to be independent over the past few weeks in striking down several decisions by government institutions. On 22 Dec 2009, the High Court censured the police for wrongfully arresting participants of the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor II (Apcet […]

Civil society demands end to arbitrary arrests

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | May 20, 2009 1 Comment

KUALA LUMPUR, 20 May 2009: The continued arrests of people taking part in peaceful assemblies since 5 May should stop immediately, and the police force should be reformed, several civil society groups urged today. Seven civil society groups including the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) and Coalition for Good Governance (CGG) held a […]

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