Tag Archives: Activism

Official Report for the 11th of May Meeting.

We met, we dis­cussed, and two of us had some­thing to drink. The out­come of the equi­val­ent of a First Con­tact situ­ation between a group of people from the closest thing to a Malay­sian athe­ist soci­ety with a politi­cian was extraordin­ary in its pro­duct­ive­ness. Read our report at the fol­low­ing link. Kok Sen Wai has

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Big meet­ing tomor­row, as Sen Wai has covered quite flat­ter­ingly on his blog. I have little else to say except that I am look­ing for­ward to the next 24-hours.

BERSIH 3.0 Penang in Pictures

Yes­ter­day was the first time I par­ti­cip­ated in a sim­ul­tan­eously legal and illegal assembly of people sup­port­ing a com­mon cause which is elect­oral reform. Illegal because the fed­eral gov­ern­ment had already issued a ban on the gath­er­ing via all media out­lets under their con­trol, and legal because the Pen­ang state gov­ern­ment had given its approval

All Atheists are Invited to Apply

to the fol­low­ing pro­gramme that me and a few of my com­rades at the Malay­sian Athe­ists Organ­isa­tion (self-titled) in the interest of bring­ing much needed under­stand­ing of who (or indeed what) athe­ists are. For the past two weeks, the enclave of athe­ist act­iv­ists have been dis­cuss­ing when to hold a meet­ing with a politi­cian who wishes

I’m Going

Are you? Ber­sih 3.0 press release. I have reviewed the explan­a­tions for organ­ising this protest, and I agree with the points made. If you are plan­ning to go, the guidelines for Ber­sih 2.0 are prob­ably still relevant.

Happy Darwin Day

The sec­u­lar move­ment has come a long way in Malay­sia within the past few years, with a great major­ity of the move­ment sup­por­ted by groups on the Inter­net. This Dar­win Day, cel­eb­rate the joys of free­dom of con­science, free­dom of dis­be­lief, and free­dom of thought by join­ing the fol­low­ing com­munit­ies of athe­ists in Malay­sia: Malay­sian

Support Alexander Aan

Pro­gress­ive Malay­si­ans, the Malay­sian Athe­ists Organ­iz­a­tion is organ­iz­ing a peti­tion to show sup­port of Malay­si­ans for Alex Aan’s free­dom of speech, free­dom of expres­sion, and free­dom of belief. The let­ter will be sent to the Indone­sian Pres­id­ent, the Indone­sian Min­is­ter of Justice and Human Rights, as well as the Indone­sian Embassy in KL. Sign this peti­tion