Spare us the righteous anger
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Wednesday, 1 Aug 2018
by azmi sharom
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Monday, 06 August 2018
... The Commission will help to dispel the racist suspicions and will be conducive towards implementing the meritocracy policy, with wide public acceptance.
The NEP has been implemented with so much politics ...
Monday, 30 July 2018
... ‘politics of ethnicity’ from the policy planning and the institutional delivery systems.
The Social Inclusion Act [SIA, 2012] proposed by civil society in August 2012 seeks to address this through the ...
Monday, 09 September 2013
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In the course of my travels I have met many of such characters (dare I say it, more than any of you, dear readers) and I am repulsed by even the slightest hint of communitarianism and exclusive politics . ...
Thursday, 09 May 2013
... for a welfare state instead of their erstwhile insistence on an Islamic state as the end-all and be-all of politics . Is there a consensus within the PR coalition for such a proposal? We don’t hear DAP ...
Friday, 18 January 2013
... and the point at which the sense of powerlessness ferments.
But the absence of class consciousness in Malaysian politics suggests, worryingly, that cultural and ethnic concerns are poised to ...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
By Azmi Sharom
(Brave New World)
First published in The Star
IT has been said many times in this column that as a nation we need to move away from race-based politics and policy-making.
...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
... of the Top 10% households.
“We are all trapped in and by the politics of ethnicity,” said Jayanath. “We need to entrust stewardship to an independent, non-partisan body.”
The Draft Social ...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
... about a socially just and more inclusive society.
We need to decouple the ‘politics of ethnicity’ from the policy planning and the institutional delivery systems in order to empower the poor and ...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
... and demands of new realities in an emerging “New Politics ”.
The concept of a “Benevolent Nation” describes it all. It wasn’t easy to explain all these phenomena to a Malaysian audience with hardly ...
Sunday, 10 June 2012
... not to advance his personal nor his party’s political agenda.
Such mudslinging and slandering is considered dirty politics , which is why BERSIH 2.0’s eighth demand is: Stop Dirty Politics . BERSIH ...
Thursday, 07 June 2012
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d) There is no mention of how to stop dirty politics save for a reference to a Code to be drawn up in relation to a Caretaker Government. In fact there ought to be a code of conduct in relation ...
Sunday, 08 April 2012
Pendirian Organisasi Masyarakat Madani:
Hentikan Ancaman dan Keganasan terhadap Aktivisme Sosial dan Politik
2 Mac 2012
Kami, organisasi masyarakat madani yang tersenarai di bawah, menyatakan ...
Sunday, 04 March 2012
... and civil society sectors. Ensure zero tolerance of corruption.
2. Politics
Politics must be seen as a service to the nation and its people. People in power must be elected through a clean, free ...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
... man because he denies racism, nationalism and forms of parochial sectarian power-politics . That is why he is a hero, for heavens sake. And despite all that -which can be found in the Hikayat if only people ...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
... boundaries of the region and lead to the rise of new growth centres and the decline of old ones, our national politics is dominated by horror stories, amok stories, bomoh stories and of course the motley ...
Sunday, 21 August 2011
... not the only variable in determining access to social services, education, health benefits, land and other forms of development assistance provided by the government in Malaysia.
Politics , class, ...
Saturday, 13 August 2011
... fit PSM into. PSM feels it is important to expose these because PSM has always practiced an open and transparent kind of politics (nothing clandestine or underground as the Government is trying frame it) ...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
... must stop. Stern action must be taken against those who commit any form of vote-buying.
8. Stop dirty politics
Malaysian citizens are tired of dirty politics that has been the main feature of ...
Thursday, 14 July 2011
... ballot
3. Use of indelible ink
4. Minimum 21 days campaign period
5. Free and Fair Access to Media
6. Strengthen Public Institutions
7. Stop Corruption
8. Stop Dirty Politics
3) All those ...
Wednesday, 06 July 2011