An indie protest

By Ooi Kok Hin

October 2015 FEATURE
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Bersih 4 was much more than a call for electoral reform – it was also a reoccupation of public space and a step towards participatory democracy.On September 29 and 30, hundreds of thousands of Malaysians showed up in defiance of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 and the Home Minister’s comical ban on Bersih’s yellow T-shirt. Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah claimed that the rally was not only a success but also a historic event: “The people’s presence in KL,...

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is an INTP who lives to write and writes to live. Follow him at https:// www.facebook.com/ ooikokhin.


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