Tag Archives: Activism

I Did Some Activism Yesterday

I can’t give much details yet. All I can say for now is, it will be very inter­est­ing. Have that with some salt.

Aaron H. Swartz

A moment of silence for one of the best amongst us, Com­puter act­iv­ist Aaron H. Swartz com­mit­ted sui­cide in New York City yes­ter­day, Jan. 11, accord­ing to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a com­ment to The Tech. Swartz was 26. “The tra­gic and heart­break­ing inform­a­tion you received is, regret­tably, true,” con­firmed Swartz’ attor­ney, Elliot R. Peters

2nd Day of Cheer. A Feel Good Film.

So you have paid money for yet another ticket to watch another movie that per­petu­ates the same block­buster spe­cial effects movie exper­i­ence that has become indis­tin­guish­able from the other mediocre big budget block­buster you watched last week. You real­ise all of the char­ac­ters of the films are inter­change­able, or that you care more about the

USD 146,006 for The Yes Men are Revolting.

Final Kick­starter tally for The Yes Men amoun­ted to US$ 146,006 from 2,523 back­ers, of which I con­trib­uted US$ 10.00. I look for­ward to the movie which will explore how cor­por­a­tions are shap­ing the dis­course on cli­mate change, and now that I have given the equi­val­ent of RM 30.00, I will have no guilt pro­cur­ing the

A Primer to How to Survive a Plague

I do not know when this doc­u­ment­ary will hit Malay­sian shores, but it is reportedly a touch­ing and rel­ev­ant pro­duc­tion on act­iv­ism in the face of apathy and out­right stig­mat­iz­a­tion. To make up for it, watch this inter­view con­duc­ted by Demo­cracy Now’s Amy Good­man with ACT UP found­ing mem­ber Peter Sta­ley and Dir­ector David France.

Back to the Human Collective

I have returned to the urban land­scape, and the first thing that struck me was how quickly I wished to return to the trop­ical forest to do fur­ther meas­ure­ments on sap­ling roots as I read news of a 14-year old child act­iv­ist who was shot in the head for cham­pi­on­ing a woman’s rights to edu­ca­tion,

Bersih 3.0 Reminder, Attended.

No big deal, I just atten­ded a mini, mini rally to remind the EC to resign and for mean­ing­ful elect­oral reform to be ini­ti­ated instead of more spins on the story than the Black Swan does on a Swan Lake pro­duc­tion. No pic­tures to show, until I retrieve them from the inev­it­able Face­book posts of