06 July 2008 - Prachatai
Article - 04 July 2008
The quinquevirate that rule the PAD have issued a call for a ‘new politics’ that will strengthen the political power of the people by removing their right to elect 70% of political office holders.
Pick to Post - 04 July 2008
An Oxford economics professor said in a recent Washington Post article that the best hope for either Burma or Zimbabwe is that military officers might overthrow their respective dictators and leap through a window of legitimacy held open by the free world (“Let us now praise coups,” June 22).
News - 04 July 2008
Prachatai interviewed Sirote Klampaiboon, a PhD candidate of the Political Science Faculty of Hawaii University and a contributor to Prachatai, in light of the idea recently floated by the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) coordinator Suriyasai Katasila, who proposed what he called a ‘new politics’, by which he meant that the proportion of those who take political positions would be 70% appointed and 30% elected.
Article - 04 July 2008
I received word from the villagers living in a village on the Thai-Burma border with Shan State. They found five boys and girls crossing from one side into Thai territory. It looked like they were running from something. The villagers who found this group of children discovered that they were ethnic Wa.
Article - 03 July 2008
Mr. Suriyasai Katasila, coordinator of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), wrote an article entitled “New politics” of the PAD challenge in Manager Online, clarifying the proposed “70: 30” political system where 70 percent of officeholders are appointed while 30 percent are elected. Suree Mingwannalak has also written a Critique of Suriyasai Katasila’s “New Politics”, arguing that the PAD leadership are trying to raise the level of the struggle, but this won’t achieve it; in fact it will take the people backward.
Article - 02 July 2008
The term “Carnival of Reaction” was first used by the Irish Marxist James Connolly when referring to the defeat of socialist politics in Ireland and the rise of reactionary Catholicism and reactionary Protestantism either side of the partition border.
News - 01 July 2008
MSF hands over it's HIV/AIDS activities in Kuchinarai to the local authorities. After more than six years supporting HIV/AIDS care in Kuchinarai district, Kalasin province, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is today leaving the district.
News - 30 June 2008
The Matichon online website has reported that on 30 June at the Central Administrative Court, South Sathorn Road, Mr. Suwat Apaipak, a lawyer, authorized his personal lawyer, Mrs. Atchara Saekao to file a complaint to the court to issue a warrant against Assoc. Prof. Dr. Worachet Pakeerut (Head of the Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University), Ms. Chiranuch Premchaiporn (Prachatai website manager), and Mr. Chuwat Rerksirisuk (Prachatai website editor). The charge calls for the three persons to be punished for violating the jurisdiction of the court.
Pick to Post - 28 June 2008
Thailand’s human rights agency has been in limbo since September 2006 when the army took power for the umpteenth time. The National Human Rights Commission was by no means the coup’s biggest casualty. After all, it wasn’t shut down completely, like the parliament and one of the upper courts. But the commission has not fared well since then, and its confused and contradictory response to the military takeover in some ways typified its deeper problems.
Frontliner - 27 June 2008
The new round of anti-government demonstrations by the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) over the past one and a half months can be said to have reached its deepest stage reflecting the filthiness and loss of mind of the group. The issue of Preah Vihear has been directly manipulated by linking the issue to territorial integrity and the “state”.
Alien Thoughts - 27 June 2008
One would have thought that after ‘Siam Mapped’ by Acharn Thongchai Winichakul, we’d all grown up a bit. But no such luck.
News - 27 June 2008
More than 20 participants come from networks in various provinces with the objective of developing skills in news gathering and dissemination through various media to people in areas facing problems from energy development plans, especially through the internet, which opens many opportunities to create their own space.
News - 24 June 2008
Charoen Wat-aksorn, together with the Bo Nok-Hin Krud villagers, had been struggling against the power plant project of the Gulf Power Generation Company in Prachuab Kiri Khan Province. In the end, the government had to halt the project. Then he and the villagers joined together in a struggle against a business which had trespassed on public land to build shrimp farms. This campaign was to protect the collective rights of the villagers.
News - 23 June 2008
On 19 June at 6.09 pm, a gathering of about fifteen individuals at the Siam Centre mall near BTS Siam Station was seen holding placards on political issues. They claimed to be a group of people with diverse views, not related to any political group.
News - 20 June 2008
Today, the People Alliance for Democracy (PAD) mobilized protestors rallied to stay in front of Government House. There are at leasts 2 bloggers also do live blogs on the protest.
News - 20 June 2008
The TJA, a member of SEAPA, and Thai Broadcast Journalists Association (TBJA) condemn the attack with explosive devices perpetrated against "The Manager Daily" newspaper, calling the incident a "reckless act aimed at threatening the work of the media."
Alien Thoughts - 20 June 2008
There is a common perception in Thailand that democracy is a delicate flower. It wilts easily, and not just because the military keep yanking it up by the roots.
Article - 19 June 2008
The depth of feeling grows for calm and reason to prevail so that Thaksin Shinawatra can get a fair hearing in Thailand's judicial system. A worthy sentiment indeed, but are we likely to see an end to the brooding political atmosphere?
News - 19 June 2008
As the Olympic torch relay travels to Lhasa, Amnesty International today urged the Chinese government to provide information about the over 1,000 people detained during the protests last March and called for free access to Tibet by independent observers.
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Frontliner - 27 June 2008
The new round of anti-government demonstrations by the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) over the past one and a half months can be said to have reached its deepest stage reflecting the filthiness and loss of mind of the group. The issue of Preah Vihear has been directly manipulated by linking the issue to territorial integrity and the “state”.
Pick to Post - 04 July 2008
An Oxford economics professor said in a recent Washington Post article that the best hope for either Burma or Zimbabwe is that military officers might overthrow their respective dictators and leap through a window of legitimacy held open by the free world (“Let us now praise coups,” June 22).
Article - 04 July 2008
The quinquevirate that rule the PAD have issued a call for a ‘new politics’ that will strengthen the political power of the people by removing their right to elect 70% of political office holders.
Alien Thoughts - 27 June 2008
One would have thought that after ‘Siam Mapped’ by Acharn Thongchai Winichakul, we’d all grown up a bit. But no such luck.
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