Last week’s events have left many people horrified. It was certainly a leap year 29 February with so many MPs leap-frogging left, right and centre. Appalling. And now the tainted old guard are back. But the struggle for a new, more inclusive, Malaysia continues.
Aliran issued this statement today:
Aliran is appalled over the ousting of a democratically elected government by MPs who cast aside the five-year mandate given by voters in the last general election.
Stay calm. Whatever happens in Putrajaya, the people’s will must prevail.
Whatever happens at the Pakatan Harapan leadership council meeting, what matters most is the fate of the reform agenda. Come and attend this forum in KL to find out what’s going on and whether the interests of the people will be upheld.
Our train network. A magnificent legacy (though of course the trains were used back then largely to transport commodities to feed the Empire). But for almost a generation since the mid-1980s, while the government focused on the “national car” (which bled red ink) and tolled highway (cashcows), our trains and supporting infrastructure were neglected.
This is it, the main event, organised by a string of grassroots, civil society, residents’ and fisherfolk representatives in Penang.
Aida Redza and her troupe held participants at the riverside Chap Goh Meh gathering spellbound as they performed a dance in tribute to water called We are Water.
What’s going on here? Independent filmmaker Andrew Ng Yew San wonders what is happening at this hillside near Chee Seng Garden in Tanjung Bungah. It doesn’t look pretty.
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I would like to wish all my blog readers a Happy Lunar New Year.
Hours after the Kimanis by-election result, the wisecracks were already circulating: “Kimanis has become Kipahit” (manis means sweet; pahit means bitter) for Pakatan Harapan.
Barisan Nasional romped home to victory in the Kimanis by-election in Sabah with a larger majority of 2,029 compared to its 156-vote majority in the 2018 general election.
One of the big issues that BN played up was the issue of the Sabah temporary pass, which the Sabah PH government plans to issue to undocumented persons in the state. Just two days before the by-election, speaker after speaker from BN railed against the proposed pass at a large rally. Full article on Aliran website
Well done, Latheefa, for making public the revelations that have added some much-needed context and background to the kleptocratic government we had previously.