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The truth is, you can’t inspire others when you are not inspired yourself in the first place.
The truth is, you can’t inspire others when you are not inspired yourself in the first place.
Bob Marley once sang these famous words: Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy ‘Cause none of them can stop the time I wondered whether he was high on weed when he was writing those words. Whether he was or wasn’t, this song went [...]
Questioning the inaction of lawyers and the Bar Council with regards to the arrest of lawyers and pupils for distributing the Bar Council’s Red Book. Do lawyers think that the “defending” they have done via e-mails, Facebook, Twitter and releasing press statements is all there is?
After LoyarBurok’s 3 hit combo in July, LoyarBurokker Syahredzan Johan hits the show this week! As Co-Chairperson of the Bar Council Constitutional Law Committee’s MyConstitution campaign, he talks about the campaign’s objectives and the police report alleging the campaign for sedition.
BFM’s The Bigger Picture is running a 9 parter on MyConstitution and its 9 phases, every Wednesday at 3.00p.m. The first segment featuring MyConsti and Bar Council Constitutional Law Committee Chairperson, Edmund Bon was aired on 7 September and transcribed here.
An article from The Star in support of the MyConstitution campaign that seeks to simplify the Constitution for all Malaysians – yet the only group to question the motive of this public service is a group of young graduates who formed a 1Malaysia club.
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Certain quarters are demanding that Malaysians do not discuss the Constitution. However at the opening of the first Parliament of Malaya, Yang Dipertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Rahman opined that we should! And the MyConstitution campaign is doing just that!
Edmund Bon’s interview with FMT has resurrected a fresh debate on the role and relevance of the Bar Council as a voice of conscience in civil society. The former Bar Council’s National Young Lawyers Committee Deputy Chairperson (2006/07) and Malaysian Bar’s YL Personality speaks up to call for drastic action by the Bar to answer its woes.
In this second part of his interview with Free Malaysia Today, LoyarBurokker Edmund Bon speaks to Teoh El Sen about the PerlembagaanKu/MyConstitution campaign that is bringing the Constitution to the rakyat – something the Government should have done.
The Sex Worker’s Programme of Pink Triangle Foundation (PTF) is organizing the JOM KE CHOW KIT! carnival. KL Legal Aid Centre and MyConstitution will be there alongside Suhakam and Ministry of Health (OoOoo!) It’ll be an evening of fabulous performances, lots of info and really reeeaally about Sex and Sexuality in general.
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