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Thai Intellectuals Grapple With Issues of Democracy and Civil Unrest |
By Clarissa V. Militante
The dusts from the melee of fleeing Red Shirts and assaulting teams of soldiers have settled, and not even the hint of smoke from the burned buildings could be detected. Bangkok’s residents are now trying to pick up on the routines of their daily lives before the red-shirted protesters mounted mass actions in large sections of central Bangkok from March to May. But for the Thai’s intellectuals, this seeming lull is a chance to take a more in-depth look at the recent past events and deal with nagging issues that confront Thai society.
Is it a class struggle—being manifested in a brewing civil war—that is unraveling in Thailand? This was a major question raised during the Philippine forum “Thailand: Democracy, People, Power” organized by the Focus on Global South Philippines, a week after the military dispersed the Red Shirts and dismantled their camps that have become part of Bangkok’s landscape in the past two months. Joy Chavez, Philippine Programme Coordinator of Focus, moderated the discussion.
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Press Release: House Betrays Public in Failing to Pass the Freedom of Information Bill |
PRESS STATEMENT
Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition
5 June 2010
The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition yesterday denounced the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the Freedom of Information Bill as a betrayal of the public trust.
In a press statement, the coalition branded as doublespeak the claim of Speaker Nograles that he did his best to get the bill ratified. Lawyer Nepomuceno Malaluan, coalition spokesperson, said that even as Speaker Nograles publicly professed support for the bill and allowed its introduction on the floor, there were numerous acts by the House Leadership that discloses its determined resistance to the measure.
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Legacy or Ignonimy: Will Speaker Nograles and his House Ratify the Freedom of Information Bill |
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The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition
4 June 2010
When the leaders of the House of Representatives want a measure passed, we have seen them find a way. But when they want a measure aborted, they simply stay away and quibble about the absence of quorum.
For 14 years, the 160 member-organizations of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition have waged, separately and together, an advocacy campaign for the passage of the Freedom of Information Act. We have done so in good faith, in the most positive and trustful manner, and with all due respect to the members of Congress who swore to serve the people, by the Constitution and the laws of the land.
Even now, we thank Speaker Prospero Nograles Jr., the legislators who authored and passed the Freedom of Information Act, and all the members of the 14th Congress, for taking the bill to its farthest, an accomplishment that previous Congresses had all failed to achieve.
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